Notices & Bulletins

University Systems is excited to share that Microsoft Teams Phone is now available.

The University's central administrative system (Banner) used for student records, payroll, and finance will be unavailable on Sunday, March 3, 2024, from 9:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. to perform planned system maintenance. Banner and all services dependent on Banner will be unavailable during the scheduled Banner maintenance.

Microsoft is upgrading the application you use for Microsoft Teams to a new version. The old version of Teams is now known as “Microsoft Teams (classic).” The new version of Teams is “Microsoft Teams (work or school).” On Dec 21st, 2023, University Systems will be changing the version of Microsoft Teams that opens by default to the new version.

The University's central administrative system (Banner) used for student records, payroll, and finance will be unavailable on Sunday, December 3, 2023, from 9:30 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. to perform planned system maintenance. Banner and all services dependent on Banner will be unavailable during the scheduled Banner maintenance.

Updated Apple introduced a new operating system (Sonoma/macOS 14) on September 26, 2023. Sonoma is the latest release of the Apple operating system for Macintosh computers such as iMacs, MacBooks and Mac Minis. A thorough test and review of the release version of Sonoma has been completed to ensure the new macOS is compatible with the software and computing environment our community relies on for teaching and research. This includes UVic specific applications and services.

Starting on October 25, 2023, Microsoft 365 email users will receive a notification daily of any emails that were quarantined. You will be able to take action on these quarantined emails.

Microsoft is retiring its Stream (Classic) video hosting service and it will be replaced by a new experience, Stream (on SharePoint).

SharePoint Online is now available as a replacement for Connect (SharePoint 2013). Connect sites will no longer be created as we transition to the new service. To ease this transition, we’re rolling out SharePoint Online in phases.

Microsoft is making changes in mid-January 2023 to the types of services Office 365 desktop applications can connect to. The centrally hosted service Connect (SharePoint 2013) will be affected by this change. University Systems is taking steps to ensure access to Connect from Office 365 desktop applications is not impacted for Office 365 installations acquired through UVic.