What’s New

In preparation for the campus wide power outage scheduled on Sunday, April 29th, DoIT will be shutting down one of our two campus data centers. During the power outage there will be no backup...

The Technology Support Center (previously known as the Help Desk) began receiving reports around 1:15pm today that UMBC's Gmail system was not working. This does not appear to be affecting all...

In 2011, the campus transitioned to Google Calendar as the campus-wide calendaring solution. Incorporated in the use of Google Calendar is the need identify when the campus observes holidays...

Over the weekend, DoIT has received several reports of intermittent login failures using myUMBC, Blackboard and even the RT (Request Tracker) ticketing system The problem is actually not with...

Starting the week of March 26th the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) will begin phasing out McAfee as our antivirus (AV) software and moving to Microsoft’s AV software named Forefront....

UPDATE: 1/24/12 As of 10:30 a.m. today, course enrollment updates are now occurring hourly. Current SA to Bb Update Schedule: New user updates - top of the hour New enrollment updates -...

UPDATE DoIT staff have identified an issue with the system storage which has been fixed. Please contact DoIT if you are still experiencing the slowness identified earlier today. DoIT has...

Following yesterday's announcement of a new "snapshot" data synchronization process between SA and Blackboard, DoIT reports that a Bb course shell has been auto created and enrolled for all Spring...

To resolve reported issues with Winter and Spring 2012 Blackboard courses, DoIT has successfully tested Blackboard's "snapshot" process for automatically creating and enrolling all UMBC Bb courses...

While the campus Blackboard server was successfully upgraded on Friday, December 23, DoIT has encountered issues with the planned auto-creation of Winter and Spring 2012 Bb course shells. We are...