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ROSI Database Quarterly Maintenance – Friday, May 22

Date: April 28, 2026
To: ROSI Users; Registrar’s Offices
From: Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration
Re: ROSI Database Quarterly Maintenance – Friday, May 22

 

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 9 p.m.

The ROSI-REPLICA on the Managed Instance (MI) will remain accessible during the maintenance. Data syncing with the ROSI transactional database will restart 10 – 20 minutes after the end of the maintenance period and applications have been restarted.

The following systems will be affected:

  • Accommodated Testing Services (Student and Admin)
  • ACORN
  • Course Information System
  • Degree Explorer (Student and Admin)
  • EASI Institutional File Transfer
  • eMarks
  • Online Administrative Student Information System (OASIS) – including Absence Declaration, and the Timetable Builder and Transfer Equivalencies database administrative screens
  • ROSI
  • ROSI Express
  • ROSI Files
  • Safety Abroad Student Registry
  • Varsity Blues Registration System
  • Web services/APIs

Timetable Builder (Student) will remain available.

A notice will be posted on the ACORN launchpad so that students will be aware of the outage.

Thank you for your patience as we make these improvements.

Sincerely,
Student Information Systems

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Microsoft removing Copilot from select Office apps

Date: April 27, 2026
To: MTRC, EITU, InfoTech Listserv, Tri-campus Help Desk Leads  
From: Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration 
Re: Microsoft removing Copilot from select Office apps 

 

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:  
    • In the Microsoft 365 Copilot app 
    • In the Outlook app, including the inbox and calendar features 
    • In the Teams app 

 

Who is affected 

    • Users without a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot Premium license  
    • No changes for full Copilot-licensed users  

 

What you need to do 

    • No action is required from your end.  
    • If you need Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or OneNote, a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot license is required. (learn more)  

 

If you have any further questions or concerns, please submit a ticket to the Enterprise Service Centre at (https://uoft.me/m365help). 

Kind regards, 

Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration (EASI)
Information Technology Services, University of Toronto 

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Updating Listserv Mail Software

Date: April 1, 2026
To: ACE-IT, EITU, MTRC, InfoTech Listserv, Tri-campus Help Desk Leads  
From: Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration 
Re: Updating Listserv Mail Software

 

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 the upgrade is completed, there will be no change to the end user experience or LISTSERV administrative functions. 

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding and support as we work to improve your LISTSERV experience.  

Should you have any concerns or questions, please contact help.desk@utoronto.ca. 

Thank you for your patience and cooperation.  

 

Kind regards,  

Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration 

Information Technology Services  

University of Toronto 

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Entra Connect Upgrade | March 24, 2026

Date: March 20, 2026
To: ACE-IT, EITU, MTRC, InfoTech Listserv, Tri-campus Help Desk Leads  
From: Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration 
Re: Entra Connect Upgrade| March 24, 2026

 

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, 2026, 10:00AM to 4:00PM 

Impact on Users: This upgrade is expected to have no anticipated disruption to end users or services during the maintenance period. 

We appreciate your understanding and cooperation as we work to ensure our systems remain secure and up to date.  

If you have any questions or concerns, please submit a ticket to the Enterprise Service Centre at (https://uoft.me/m365help). 

Kind regards,  

Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration (EASI)  

Information Technology Services 

University of Toronto

 

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Microsoft Teams Live Events will be retiring on June 30, 2026

This is a notice that Microsoft Teams Live Events will be retiring on June 30, 2026. Microsoft has already started restricting scheduling so that Teams Live Events cannot be created for dates after June 30, 2026.

What is changing

  • Microsoft Teams Live Events (and the Microsoft Graph Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) used to create them) will be fully discontinued on June 30, 2026.
  • Teams Live Events already scheduled before June 30, 2026 will continue to run through February 28, 2027.
  • Microsoft recommends moving to Teams town hall for events at scale.

Who is affected

  • Anyone who schedules, produces or attends Teams Live Events.

Recommended actions

  • Effective immediately, schedule new large-audience broadcasts as a Teams town hall (not a Teams Live Event), especially for any event after June 30, 2026.
  • Review any upcoming communications plans that still reference “Teams Live Events” and update them to “Teams town hall.”

 

Read the official announcement.

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AMS FI Fiscal Year-End Closure 2026

Date: March 9, 2026
To:  AMS Users
From: Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration
Re: AMS FI Fiscal Year-End Closure 2026

 

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 9 a.m.
  • The Capital Projects Portal and Invoice Workflow will resume regular functionality on Friday, May 1 at 7 a.m.
  • Concur (Travel & Expense Reimbursement) will remain available 24/7; however, posting claims or progressing the workflow after an approval is dependent on AMS and will automatically resume when AMS is available on May 1 at 7 a.m.
  • Fiori Launchpad will remain available.

For information on the year-end deadlines, processing and reporting refer to the Financial Services website.

The following summarizes the AMS system availability during the weeks prior to year-end closing:

Date Status
Tuesday, April 14 System closes for bi-weekly payroll at 5 p.m.
Wednesday, April 15 System re-opens at 7 a.m.
Thursday, April 16 System open regular hours
Friday, April 17 System open regular hours
Saturday, April 18 System open regular hours
Sunday, April 19 System open regular hours
Monday, April 20 System open regular hours
Tuesday, April 21 System closes for “Copy Plan to Budget” at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, April 22 System re-opens at 7 a.m.
System closes for monthly payroll phase 1 at 5 p.m.
Thursday, April 23 System re-opens at 7 a.m.
System closes for monthly payroll phase 2 at 5 p.m.
Friday, April 24 System re-opens at 7 a.m.
Saturday, April 25 System open regular hours
Sunday, April 26 System open regular hours
Monday, April 27 System open regular hours
Tuesday, April 28 System closed to all users at 7 p.m. except uSOURCE closes at 5 p.m.
Wednesday, April 29 and Thursday, April 30 System closed to all users
Friday, May 1 System re-opens at 7 a.m. except uSOURCE opens at 9am

Please visit our System Availability page for information on all systems.

Sincerely,
Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration (EASI)

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Outlook on the web change: personal accounts + combined calendar view retiring (March – June 2026)

Date: March 6, 2026
To: AMS Listserv
From: Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration 
Re: Outlook on the web change: personal accounts + combined calendar view retiring (March – June 2026)

 

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 is required.
If you do use these features:

  • Your connected personal account(s) in OWA will be automatically disconnected as Microsoft rolls this out.
  • For multi-account workflows, use Outlook for Windows/Mac, or keep personal accounts separate (e.g., a separate browser profile/window).

If you have any further questions or concerns, please submit a ticket to the Enterprise Service Centre at (https://uoft.me/m365help).

Sincerely,
Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration (EASI)

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ROSI Database Quarterly Maintenance – Friday, March 27

Date: March 2, 2026
To: ROSI Users; Registrar’s Offices
From: Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration
Re: ROSI Database Quarterly Maintenance – Friday, March 27

 

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 9 p.m.

The ROSI-REPLICA on the Managed Instance (MI) will remain accessible during the maintenance. Data syncing with the ROSI transactional database will restart 10 – 20 minutes after the end of the maintenance period and applications have been restarted.

The following systems will be affected:

  • Accommodated Testing Services (Student and Admin)
  • ACORN
  • Course Information System
  • Degree Explorer (Student and Admin)
  • EASI Institutional File Transfer
  • eMarks
  • Online Administrative Student Information System (OASIS) – including Absence Declaration, and the Timetable Builder and Transfer Equivalencies database administrative screens
  • ROSI
  • ROSI Express
  • ROSI Files
  • Safety Abroad Student Registry
  • Varsity Blues Registration System
  • Web services/APIs

Timetable Builder (Student) will remain available.

A notice will be posted on the ACORN launchpad so that students will be aware of the outage.

Thank you for your patience as we make these improvements.

This email has been sent from a service account and does not accept replies. Please direct any follow up questions to the Enterprise Service Centre http://www.uoft.me/esc

Sincerely,
Student Information Systems

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Final Reminder: Feb. 28 Azure Data Studio Retirement – Transition to Visual Studio Code

Date: February 27, 2026
To: Azure Data Studio Users
From: Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration 
Re: Final Reminder: Feb. 28 Azure Data Studio Retirement – Transition to Visual Studio Code

 

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 May 28, 2026, the connection to all central student data will be disabled.

Resources:

If you have any questions, please visit the Power BI Toolbox and submit a support ticket.

Sincerely,

Reporting and Analytics Technology Team
Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration