All office phones, Skype phones and Skype for business will be eliminated effective March 31, 2025.
The University will decommissionWatSAFE, both the mobile app and desktop notifications, by the end of February 2025.
University’s central WebEx service, uwaterloo.webex.com, will be decommissioned April 30, 2025
The University has reached its current storage limit for Webex recordings, therefore cloud storage is no longer available.
On October 1, 2024, we will retire the WatSAFE app and replace it with the Regroup Mobile app. This change is part of a new, integrated Emergency Notification System (ENS) which will be fully implemented by October 1, 2024.
‘Mail Routing Address’ field in WatIAM will no longer permit adding a non-UWaterloo email address (e.g., Gmail) or changing it to be empty.
Classic Teams will be retired by Microsoft on May 31, 2024.
Duo Factor Authentication to be required for all users signing in to Microsoft 365 Apps
The existing Voicemail and IVR/Menu system Office Linx will be upgraded to Avaya IX Messaging
New version of Microsoft Teams will be enabled for University of Waterloo clients