The IST-hosted individual user network drive (N: drive - fileu) service will no longer be offered. Content must be migrated to OneDrive by April 30, 2023.
What is happening? Microsoft Teams site owners may receive an email notification if no activity is detected across their site in the last 14 months (426 days). Site owners should evaluate whether the site is required or if the site should be deleted.
When will the email notifications begin? March 8, 2023. If the site owner does not take any action following the initial notification, two reminder notifications will be sent at an interval of 7 days.
What do I need to do?
What is happening? Microsoft has introduced “Teams Premium”. Some existing features of Teams (typically unused or rarely used by our clients) will now require a Teams Premium license. This does not apply to Teams Live events.
When will Teams Premium be available? Beginning Friday, March 3, 2023, though availability varies by feature.
What is the impact? The following Teams features will require a Teams Premium license:
The February 2023 IT Review Interim Report is now available for review. This report offers an update on the status and actions being taken to support the advancement of recommendations for each major theme and "other" categorization identified in the 2020 IT Review final report. The document identifies timelines for tasks/action items, other ideas being discussed within the working groups (lead by the co-leads), and cross-theme connections.
Project background
The IT Review, conducted between April 2019 and May 2020, was launched to assess the University of Waterloo's overall IT capability. The result of this work was captured in the Campus Information Technology Review Final Report (PDF) and included a number of recommendations for building on and enhancing Waterloo's IT landscape.
What is happening? Stream (Classic) is being retired and replaced by Stream (on SharePoint).
When is it happening? Stream (Classic) will be retired on February 15, 2024.
What is the impact?
What is happening? Information Systems & Technology (IST) is replacing the DNS, DHCP, and IPAM infrastructure. In preparation for this work, changes to the current infrastructure will be frozen.
When is it happening? Effective Wednesday, March 8 at 3:00 p.m., changes to the current infrastructure will be frozen. The replacement of the DNS, DHCP, and IPAM infrastructure will take place Sunday, March 12 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. IT administrators will not be able to log in to the infrastructure until Monday, March 13.
Update: The Waterloo Studio will relocate from EC5 to MC1088. Effective February 2, 2023, the following Studio services can be requested via waterloostudio@uwaterloo.ca:
What is happening? Quest will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance.
When is this happening?
What is happening? We will be testing the University’s campus-wide emergency communication system.
When is this happening? Monday, January 23, 2023, at 1:15 p.m.
What is the impact? Emergency communication channels being tested include:
Resolved: Issues with ADFS have been resolved. Users logging into nexus machine may continue to experience issues while the workstation resyncs.
What do I need to do? If you are utilizing a machine on the Nexus domain you can use the following steps to resolve the issue.