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Quarterly system patching on 8/18 & 8/19

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday August 18th and Saturday August 19th.  While many of the...

Posted: August 15, 2017, 11:52 AM

LDAP-Master and Webadmin downtime on 8/17 at 2pm

On Thursday, August 17th starting at 2pm LDAP-Master and Webadmin will be taken down for system maintenance.  During this time account creations and password changes will be unavailable.  Account...

Posted: August 10, 2017, 11:11 AM

Duplicate myUMBC Notifications on Monday 7/31

We had an issue yesterday (July 31) in which myUMBC sent duplicate copies of posts to approximately 11,000 students. Some students received up to 10 copies of the same post via myUMBC, email, and...

Posted: August 1, 2017, 2:47 PM

FA17 Courses Created in Blackboard on 07/18/2017

Blackboard cloud migration completed on 07/07/2017

Blackboard course shells for FA2017 were created on July 18, 2017 after the completion of the cloud migration. Summer 2017 courses will be archived from the separate cloud environment and...

Posted: July 20, 2017, 8:56 AM

Blackboard Cloud Migration Completed on July 7

System restored to full service

DoIT is pleased to announce the completion of the Blackboard cloud migration. During the downtime window, Blackboard engineers and DoIt staff migrated nearly 21,000 courses and more than 800...

Posted: July 7, 2017, 2:32 PM

Technology Support Center To Be Closed July 1-4

DoIT's Technology Support Center will be closed from Saturday, July 1st to Tuesday, July 4th due to the upcoming holiday weekend. The office was already scheduled to be closed on Monday, July 3rd...

Posted: June 27, 2017, 12:16 PM

Blackboard Down for Cloud Migration June 30 - July 8

Summer courses remain ONLINE during this period

click here to access summer courses Per DoIT’s March 8 and April 28 announcements, Blackboard engineers will migrate the primary UMBC Blackboard site (blackboard.umbc.edu) beginning at 12:01...

Posted: June 7, 2017, 3:28 PM

Adobe Creative Cloud E-mail

Adobe Creative Cloud

During the afternoon of Tuesday, June 6th UMBC faculty and staff may have received an e-mail identical to the e-mail below.  This is a valid e-mail that is automatically generated when a user's...

Posted: June 7, 2017, 10:20 AM

DoIT's Technology Support Center Hiring for the Fall

Are you looking for an on campus job? Come work for us!

The DoIT Technology Support Center is looking to hire additional consultants to work during the Fall. Please see our job description below and visit our job posting on UMBCWorks to apply. The...

Posted: June 7, 2017, 9:00 AM