After over 14 years of operation, we’re bidding a fond farewell to the Wisconsin App. Learn what this means for you and how to access your favorite features moving forward.
Services & Tools Updates
Google Drive quotas now in effect
Quotas were applied to UW–Madison Google My Drives, shared drives and service accounts on Jun 1. If you’re over the quota, your account is read-only. Here’s what to do.
Planned Event Management Service outage: Jun 24
The UW–Madison Event Management Service will undergo a 1-day service outage as part of a planned upgrade. The EMS application underlies everything from Today in the Union (T.I.T.U) to study room reservations at UW–Madison’s libraries.
Reshaping the Google Workspace service roadmap
Get the latest on changes to My Drive, shared drives and service accounts.
Help Desk summer hours
The Help Desk has adjusted summer hours until fall. Please make note of these changes.
Endpoint management service roadmap
An “endpoint” is a device that communicates back and forth with a network—including desktops, laptops, servers and smartphones. This project is critical to reducing threats to university networks. Learn about the many strides we’ve made since the fall 2020 kickoff.
Microsoft Copilot now available to UW–Madison students, faculty & staff
Meet your new “Copilot”—Microsoft’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform. If you choose to use it, Copilot can help you write text, analyze data, summarize documents, create images, write code and much more.
Graduating or leaving UW? Take action before you lose access to your email
Keep in mind: You’ll lose access to your netid@wisc.edu email and other Microsoft 365 data 9 months after you leave the university. Take note of things to do to prepare for this change and preserve your data.
Have you checked out the new Teams?
The “classic” version of Microsoft Teams will be retired at the end of March. In April, anyone still using classic Teams will be automatically updated to the new version. Learn more about the change and find out how to give new Teams a try.
New default access settings for Box shared links
Starting Apr 17, when sharing files or folders in Box, the default setting will be set to “Invited people only.” This change will enhance data security.