Dear colleagues,  

Following on the Sep 12, 2024 reminder memo on Teams Chat Retention, the University of Toronto will be implementing a 30-day retention protocol for all individual Teams Chats, effective September 30, 2024. These are messages that occur outside of a Microsoft Teams Channel.   

Important: Teams Chats ...

Dear colleagues,

Microsoft Is disabling default ActiveX Controls in Microsoft 365 apps from April 2025 and Office 2024 (from October 2024) to improve security. The default configuration setting for ActiveX objects will change from Prompt me before enabling all controls with minimal restrictions to Disable all controls without notification. The ...

Date: September 23, 2024
To:  InfoTech Listserv
From: Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration
Re: VBS deprecation 

Dear colleagues,

According to official announcements from Microsoft, the Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) is being deprecated.

VBScript is a coding language that has been widely used by developers to add dynamic interactivity and functionality to ...

Microsoft Forms now supports a new, more reliable data sync to Microsoft Excel for the web. The old data sync will be replaced on October 20, 2024. 

What You Need to Do: 

• • Open your Forms. 

• • Click the “Update Sync” If there ...

Dear colleagues, 

Following on the Aug 12, 2024 reminder memo on Teams Chat Retention, the University of Toronto will be implementing a 30-day retention protocol for all individual Teams Chats, effective September 30, 2024. These are messages that occur outside of a Microsoft Teams Channel.  

Important: Teams Chats ...

Dear AMS Users,

Please note that the systems below will be unavailable on Saturday, September 7 from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. due to system maintenance:

• Academic Administrative Appointments (AAA)
• AMS SAP GUI
• Capital Project Portal
• Employee Self-Service (ESS)/Manager Self-Service (MSS)
• EvoSuite Applications (EvoOrder, EvoPlan, EvoNotify)
• Expense ...

Dear colleagues,  

Please be advised that UTORGrouper will undergo a scheduled outage on Thursday, August 22, 2024, during which shared mailbox owners will not be able to add or remove users from shared mailboxes (generic U of T email addresses). However, sending and receiving messages in the shared ...

Dear colleagues,

Following on the May 29,2024 memo on Teams Chat Retention, the University of Toronto will be implementing a 30-day retention protocol for all individual Teams chat messages. These are messages that occur outside of Microsoft Teams Channel.

Please note: Based on community feedback, the new retention ...

Dear colleagues,  

As a follow up to the memo sent on July 31, 2024, we will be scheduling an upgrade to LISTSERV on Monday, August 19, 2024. 

Please be advised that the LISTSERV system will be unavailable during this scheduled upgrade in order to migrate the LISTSERV server to a ...

Dear colleagues,  

The LISTSERV system is now back up and running. Unfortunately, today’s upgrade was not successful, and the server has been restored to the previous version.

We will attempt the upgrade again in the future and will provide detailed information in future communications.  

Thank you for your ...