What is happening? The end-of-life for on-premises SharePoint (https://sharepoint.uwaterloo.ca/) will be May 2022.
What is happening? Teams meeting recordings will now be stored in your OneDrive for Business account or the SharePoint site connected to your Microsoft Team instead of being stored in Microsoft Stream by default.
Information Systems & Technology’s Web Development team is excited to announce the launch of the new Waterloo Content Management System (WCMS) 3 platform.
This launch only impacts sites that want to use the current standard (FDSU) theme. This launch does not include the conference, publication, or single-page themes, authenticated sites, or sites that require custom modules. The launch of WCMS 3 does not impact Waterloo Scholar websites.
What is happening? Annual licenses for National Instruments Labview purchased before 2021 will expire and stop working on May 1, 2021. Licenses purchased after December 2020 will remain active until April 2022.
What do users need to do? For uninterrupted access to the software, users who purchased a license before 2021 must renew their Labview license before May 1. If you have already purchased a license in 2021, no action is required.
How to renew: To renew your Labview license, visit the IST Webstore. License renewal is a two-step process: you will need to purchase the new license, then assign the license to a machine.
For graduate students: All graduate student purchasers must obtain permission from the account holder (supervisor/principal investigator) and specify the account holder's user ID in the “Who authorized use of this account” field.
What is happening? We will be testing the University’s campus-wide emergency communication system.
When is this happening? Tuesday, February 23 at 2:00 p.m.
What is the impact? Emergency communication channels being tested include:
What is happening? Webex users may have received the email below from webex_comm@webex.com. This is a legitimate email from Webex. No user action is required for UW Webex users.
What is happening? The IST Knowledge Base will be consolidated and accessible at https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ISTKB/. The on-prem Knowledge Base (https://wiki.uwaterloo.ca/display/ISTKB) will no longer be available as of Monday, February 8.
Why is this happening? Content in the on-prem IST Knowledge Base has not been updated since the Knowledge Base migrated to Confluence Cloud in November 2020. All up-to-date content can be accessed at https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ISTKB/.
What is the impact? The IST Knowledge Base will no longer be available athttps://wiki.uwaterloo.ca/. Please note this change will not affect any other Confluence spaces hosted on https://wiki.uwaterloo.ca/.
What do website content editors need to do? If you have any links to the on-prem IST Knowledge Base on your website(s), please update with new links to the cloud version of the IST Knowledge Base before February 8.
The Waterloo Content Management System (WCMS) is moving from WCMS 2, built using Drupal 7, to WCMS 3, built using Drupal 8. This move, necessitated by the fact that Drupal 7 will be reaching end-of-life in November 2021, is not a straightforward one.
Drupal 8 has been completely rewritten, a change that will require WCMS 3 to be built, versus merely upgraded to.
The main objective of this project is to build a version of the WCMS that, as much as possible, replicates all existing presentation and end-user functionality of WCMS 2, using Drupal 8 at the core. Please note, this project excludes UWaterloo Scholar websites.
Two-factor authentication will be required for many central services including Workday, Unit4, and Office 365 effective November 3rd, 2020.
Good afternoon Campus IT,
It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and there’s no better way to participate than to protect your Waterloo computing account with two-factor authentication (2FA). We're less than one month away from requiring 2FA for many central services. Thanks to those who have stepped-up as 2FA Change Champions, our enrolment numbers are looking good, as we only have about a quarter of employees remaining to get signed-up for 2FA. If you have not done so already, I encourage you to act now to enrol, and encourage those in the areas you support to do so as well!
What is happening? LinkedIn Learning (LiL, formerly known as Lynda.com) has been in use on campus since approximately 2014. The University of Waterloo has committed to a new three-year agreement with LiL to continue our full access to the content our campus has come to rely upon and benefit from. In May 2018, the provincial government provided funding to extend access to all students and employees at Ontario colleges and universities. The provincial agreement ends on September 25, 2020, and the new Waterloo agreement replaces it.