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Maintenance Downtime this Sunday Morning June 26th

This Sunday, June 26th we will be conducting system patching for several critical core systems as part of our ongoing commitment to security. The downtime will start at 6:30am and several services...

Posted: June 21, 2016, 5:23 PM

UMBC Now Has a 100 Gb Connection & Faster Netflix Loading

Enjoy more streaming on a faster network connection

DoIT would like to announce that UMBC now features a 100 gigabit connection speeds available on campus. In addition, there is now a Netflix node installed in the Data Center on the ground floor of...

Posted: June 8, 2016, 7:55 AM

RT hits new milestone - 700,000 tickets

RT went live on February 23, 2009 for a small number of departments to track trouble tickets via a web based solution. Today, at 10:24am, RT registered ticket #700,000 and it was not a trouble...

Posted: May 31, 2016, 3:52 PM

RT Scheduled Downtime for Friday 6-3-2016 from 5pm-7pm

DoIT's Enterprise Infrastructure Support (EIS) group will be performing Quarterly Patching this weekend beginning Friday, June 3rd at 5pm. For a full report please review the EIS notice posted May...

Posted: May 31, 2016, 3:11 PM

Quarterly Patching Friday June 3rd and Saturday June 4th

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday June 3rd and Saturday June 4th.  While many of the systems...

Posted: May 27, 2016, 4:22 PM