Dear colleagues,

Microsoft is introducing two user interface updates in Microsoft Teams to improve navigation and conversation organization.
These changes are rolling out automatically and do not require administrative action.

What is changing

• • Simplified Teams app bar
    The Teams app bar on desktop (Windows and macOS) will ...

Dear colleagues, 

Microsoft has announced a policy change affecting email sent from default onmicrosoft.com domains, also known as Microsoft Online Email Routing Address (MOERA) domains. This update is intended to improve email deliverability and reduce misuse across shared Microsoft-managed domains. 

What is changing 

Microsoft has stated that MOERA domains should ...

Dear ROSI users,

Please note that we will need to take ROSI and most associated student information systems offline on Friday, May 22 from 5 to 9 p.m. to perform quarterly maintenance on the database. We will return the systems to service sooner if the work is completed earlier than ...

Dear colleagues, 

Microsoft announced a service change affecting Copilot availability for M365 office applications for users without a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot premium license. 

What is changing 

• • Starting on April 15, 2026, the Copilot icon in ribbon is no longer available in: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. 

• • Copilot Chat remains available to faculty, staff and students:  
...

Dear colleagues,  

Please be advised that we will be performing a scheduled update to the LISTSERV Mail Server on April 9, 2026, from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. 

During this maintenance window, LISTSERV service will be temporarily degraded. Users may experience up to a 30‑minute delay in mail delivery. 

Service outage window:  

April 9, 2026, from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. 

Once ...

Dear colleagues, 

We would like to inform you about an important upcoming upgrade to Entra Connect scheduled for Tuesday, March 24, 2026.  

Microsoft Entra Connect 2.6.1.0 includes important reliability improvements, security enhancements and fixes related to synchronization management and certificate lifecycle operations. This upgrade ensures continued compatibility with Microsoft Entra services and helps maintain the stability of our hybrid identity environment. 

Upgrade Window: Tuesday, March 24, ...

Hi everyone,

In collaboration with Financial Services, this year AMS will close for FI year-end processing on Tuesday, April 28 at 7 p.m. and will re-open on Friday, May 1 at 7 a.m. 

Please note:

• uSOURCE will close on Tuesday, April 28 at 5 p.m. and will re-open on Friday, May 1 at ...

Dear colleagues,

Microsoft is retiring two Outlook on the web (OWA) features between early March and late June 2026:

• OneView (connecting personal email like Gmail/Outlook.com/IMAP into OWA)
• TrueTime (viewing personal + work calendars together in OWA)

If you don’t use personal accounts or personal calendars inside OWA, no action ...

Dear ROSI users,

Please note that we will need to take ROSI and most associated student information systems offline on Friday, March 27 from 5 to 9 p.m. to perform quarterly maintenance on the database. We will return the systems to service sooner if the work is completed earlier than ...

As a follow-up to earlier communications, this is a final reminder that Microsoft will be retiring Azure Data Studio on February 28, 2026, consolidating its SQL tools in Visual Studio Code.

To maintain security compliance and support, we recommend that current Azure Data Studio users transition to Visual Studio Code. In addition, on ...