Dear colleagues,

Microsoft is enforcing two existing requirements for Power Platform Managed Environments.

• • Deployment pipelines (since October 2026): if you deploy solutions with Power Platform pipelines, you may see “Managed Environments enablement required”. Pipeline deployments to an environment that isn’t managed are blocked 30 days ...

Dear colleagues,

Microsoft is gradually retiring older (classic) SharePoint features and moving towards modern SharePoint pages.

What is changing

• • March 1, 2027: Creating new classic publishing sites will no longer be supported.
  • October 1, 2028: Existing classic pages will become read-only. You will still be able to ...

Dear colleagues, 

Microsoft will end support for Windows 11, version 23H2 Enterprise and Education editions, on November 10, 2026. 

After this date, devices running these versions will no longer receive monthly security updates, which may increase security risks. 

Action required 

If your device is running Windows 11 version ...

Dear colleagues, 

Microsoft is retiring the Teams live chat feature used to connect website visitors with staff through Microsoft Teams. 

What is changing 

Starting mid October 2026, Teams live chat will no longer send messages from websites to Teams. Previous chat messages stored in Teams will remain available. 

This change only affects websites using the ...

Dear colleagues, 

As communicated on July 6, 2026, this is a reminder that Microsoft is retiring SharePoint Online one-time passcode (SPO OTP) authentication in SharePoint and OneDrive. 

SPO OTP is the older verification-code method that some external collaborators used to open files and folders shared with them through Specific people ...

On Thursday, October 15, 2026, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., we will update the service that supports the alumni email access link, alumnimail.utoronto.ca.

Date of change: Thursday, October 15, 2026, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. EDT

What this means for alumni

Alumni will continue to use the ...

The link preview feature in new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web has been retired worldwide. Links will remain clickable but no longer show preview cards. No action is needed.

If you have any further questions or concerns, please submit a ticket to the Enterprise Service Centre at ...

Dear AMS SAP GUI users,

Please note that the Administrative Management System (AMS) will not be available for SAP GUI users from Friday, October 9, 2026 at 5 p.m. to Saturday, October 10 at 5 a.m. This outage will allow for the preparation for the across-the-board (ATB) increase for ...

Dear AMS Users,

Please note that the systems below will be unavailable on Saturday, October 17, from 5 to 11 a.m. due to system maintenance.

Hi everyone,

Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration (EASI) would like to update you on the latest major production releases and updates for the University of Toronto’s Administrative Management Systems (AMS) and Enterprise Shared Services.

The following are major changes from June 1 to September 30, 2026:

AMS/SAP Technical Platform

SAP ...