Dear AMS users,

As you may be aware, eToken authentication for high security applications, including AMS, ROSI, ROSI Files, Rocket Shuttle, StarRez and Unit VPNs, will migrate to UTORMFA on November 27.

If you have not signed up for UTORMFA yet, please self-enroll as soon as possible.

While UTORMFA works best with a smartphone, you can obtain a hardware token from the Tri-Campus Help Desks.

In preparation for this migration, your local IT administrator(s) will be deploying a configuration update for Cisco AnyConnect to your computer before November 8. After the deployment, you will see the current AdminVPN (port.eis.utoronto.ca) and the new AdminVPN (admin.vpn.utoronto.ca). This new admin.vpn.utoronto.ca will be fully activated on November 27 – please continue to use port.eis.utoronto.ca until this date.

If you have any questions about the UTORMFA project, send a message to utormfa@utoronto.ca.

Learn more about the eToken Migration Project.

Please stay tuned for upcoming details on this project.

Sincerely,
Information Security
Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration (EASI)

For those who currently do compensation planning and budgeting at the University:

As you may be aware, the University has been working to implement a new Compensation Planning Tool. In August 2021, we made the decision to cancel our development contract with an external software vendor, and shift focus to a “made @ U of T” approach to compensation planning, with improvements to the existing SAP tool (B6).

This approach will deliver many of the improvements sought by our financial planning community, while retaining the robust security, performance, and familiar interface of the SAP platform.

Benefits of the new compensation planning tool include:

• An improved, intuitive user experience, data analysis and validation that builds on the familiarity of the existing B6 tool.
• Long-range compensation planning with a six-year planning outlook and salary increase projections.
• A holistic view of compensation, which expands beyond the current data on appointed staff to include hourly and non-appointed staff.
• Salary increase scenario planning, which allows divisional users to input long range increase assumptions for various employee groups.
• Simplified compensation projections by automating salary increase provision calculations (e.g. ATB, PTR, Merit, Grid etc.).

We have completed Quality Assurance Testing and User Acceptance Testing will occur from November to early December. Training will occur in a train-the-trainer format from December to January and we plan to launch the new tool for the 2022-23 budget planning process in February, 2022.

Thank you for your patience throughout this process and your input and participation to date.

We look forward to providing you with regular updates on the project.

Questions?

Contact Darshan Harrinanan, EASI Project Manager, at darshan.harrinanan@utoronto.ca

Sincerely,

Planning & Budget Office
Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration (EASI)

Dear AMS users,

Please be advised we have encountered an issue with the Payroll Fund Reserve. The issue has resulted in the payroll reservations not being posted for the following GL accounts:

801165 – Pay:Sessional Lecturers
801170 – Pay:Casual Research Assistant

Information Technology Services (ITS) will correct this issue in AMS as part of the November 2021 monthly pay run.

Sincerely,
Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration (EASI)

Dear AMS users,

As some of you may be aware, some users have been experiencing issues with their October monthly payroll reserve balances. These issues are due to technical processes executed on Friday, October 22, 2021. Information Technology Services is currently in the process of rectifying the situation.

To address these issues, AMS SAP GUI will be unavailable tonight (October 28, 2021) from 7 pm to 10 pm.

Other applications, including My Research, Employee Self-Service/Manager Self-Service, Employee Reimbursement Direct Deposit, Capital Projects and Invoice Workflow, and FLP Reporting will remain available during this time.

For more details, please see our System Availability page for more details.

Sincerely,
Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration (EASI)