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Scheduled Service Change: Strategic Storage Initiative Stage 1 Changes

Event:
2022-06-28 11:00:00
Expected Duration:
2022-06-28 12:00:00
Status:
Closed
Brief Description:
Students will be able to change their forwarding setting in Office 365 email. Caps will be added to faculty, student, and staff Google Drive. It will no longer be possible to create a new Cornell Google Photos account.
User Impact:
Alumni and Students will be able to configure their email forwarding directly in Office 365. Faculty, staff, and students will have a quota group set based on their current usage of storage. Alerts are visible in their drive when they are close to their storage limit. Alumni, staff, faculty, and students that currently don't use Google Photos will not have the option to create a new account for it. Current users will still have access to Google Photos.
Services Affected:
Document Sharing and Collaboration
Full Description:
Several changes will be made in support of Cornell's Strategic Storage Initiative:

Students will be able to change their forwarding setting in Office 365 email (this setting points by default to their Cornell Gmail account)

Caps will be added to faculty, student, and staff Google Drive, in all cases above the current storage in the account. Accounts below 15 Gigabytes will have a 15 Gigabyte cap. Accounts with more storage will have a cap above their current use. For more information, see https://it.cornell.edu/storage.

It will no longer be possible to create a new Cornell Google Photos account.
CIT TDX ID:
721041



Timeline of Changes

Description Current Status Date Time
Several changes will be made in support of Cornell's Strategic Storage Initiative: Students will be able to change their forwarding setting in Office 365 email (this setting points by default to their Cornell Gmail account) Caps will be added to faculty, student, and staff Google Drive, in all cases above the current storage in the account. Accounts below 15 Gigabytes will have a 15 Gigabyte cap. Accounts with more storage will have a cap above their current use. For more information, see https://it.cornell.edu/storage. It will no longer be possible to create a new Cornell Google Photos account. 2022-06-16 14:30:34