The University of Oregon is extending its Dropbox service into March 2026. Dropbox users will receive more specific guidance in the coming months, after Information Services and the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation form a project team to support the university’s 17-month transition to other data storage services. No immediate action is required. Learn more in OregonNews, on the Future of UO Data Storage webpage, and in the October 21 email to Dropbox users.

• Teams in conference rooms: Microsoft now requires a "Teams room" license for use of Teams on conference room equipment. (Previously, that was optional.) Without it, Teams will fail to work, displaying the following error message: "Sign-In error. Your current license is not supported on this device. Ask your IT administrator for details." Teams room licenses cost $64.25 per year. You can request one at Microsoft 365 Subscription-based Licenses Purchase Request. Processing takes 5-10 business days.
• Look and feel: You should now be seeing the UO logo and colors in UO's Microsoft 365 web portal at office.uoregon.edu, and on the Microsoft login password screen you use to access Microsoft applications, UO VPN, and certain other UO services. If you're not seeing yellow and green in the Microsoft 365 web portal, you may have a different custom theme selected. You can choose the UO "Organizational theme" by visiting office.uoregon.edu, logging in if necessary, and opening Settings through the gear icon.

Issues with connectivity and slowness over VPN reported early on 11/18/2024 cleared up during the 2 o'clock hour. Information Services staff have remained engaged to monitor the network, but haven't seen the issues again. If you have a fresh experience of VPN issues, please submit a ticket at UO VPN Support.

UO staff are planning to contact about 30 people who had files added or modified in the 6:04 a.m.–12:25 p.m. window yesterday (Tuesday, November 12) to their UO Pages (pages.uoregon.edu/<YourDuckID>) or UO shell server accounts. We will provide guidance about how to access those files.