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2016-06-26 Scheduled Downtime

Please be aware that RT will be down for system maintenance this Sunday, June 26th, 2016 from 6:30am - 8:00am. For more info please review the post on DoIT's page. Please contact me if you...

Posted: June 21, 2016, 7:20 PM

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

Blackboard Course Archive In Progress

AY12-13 & AY13-14 Courses to be Retired from Server

Throughout summer 2016, Blackboard will archive the following terms from our Blackboard server: Fall 2012 Winter 2013 Spring 2013 Summer 2014 Fall 2013 Winter 2014 Spring 2014 Summer 2014...

Posted: June 10, 2016, 10:50 AM

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

Clicker License Codes to be Emailed to UMBC Students

License codes will be sent out to students starting May 23

As the campus begins the migration to TurningPoint Cloud this summer, students who purchased and registered their clickers on Blackboard prior to March 1, 2016  will receive Turning Account...

Posted: May 20, 2016, 12:28 PM

Windows 10 Free Upgrade for Personal Machines Ends July 29th

Upgrade for free otherwise pay $120 license for home version

DoIT would like the UMBC community to know that Microsoft's deadline for a free upgrade to Windows 10 is ending on July 29th, 2016. If you are running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 and do not take...

Posted: May 11, 2016, 1:27 PM