Two important changes will be made to your Microsoft 365 account beginning Tuesday, August 19, 2025.
A 90-day retention policy will be implemented for Teams Chat messages (i.e., all content under the Chat tab, except for shared files, which will remain saved on your OneDrive). Posts to a Channel and other Teams data will not be impacted.
The new storage quotas will be implemented for students, alumni, retirees, and generic accounts beginning the week of June 23, 2025. Implementation dates for employees are planned for August 2025.
IST Green Office has joined the Sustainability Office today (April 22) in planting 150 native trees and shrubs, while learning more about the importance of supporting biodiversity and nature on campus and in our community.
IST is enabling sensitivity labels in the Microsoft 365 environment. These labels will be required for all files stored in OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams, as well as all emails sent using Outlook.
WatIAM will be unavailable during scheduled maintenance – May 14
IST has launchedthe IT Asset Management (ITAM) Selection project, aimed at addressing the lack of centralized IT asset management at the University.
Three changes will be made to the current process for account/identity sponsorship and requesting and/or provisioning Microsoft 365 (M365) licences.
Due to several security and privacy vulnerabilities and weaknesses, IST strongly recommends that all members of the University of Waterloo community remove the DeepSeek App from their mobile devices.
The University will decommissionWatSAFE, both the mobile app and desktop notifications, by the end of February 2025.