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Introducing Respondus 4.0 and Respondus LockDown Browser

Two New Respondus Testing Options

Respondus 4.0 Respondus 4.0 is powerful tool for creating and managing a wide range of question types in a robust environment. The application can import questions with images, equations and...

Posted: August 19, 2014, 11:08 AM

RT 8-18-2014 6pm upgrade completed

The RT system was upgraded this evening from version 4.0.6 to 4.0.21. As noted earlier this is a security and minor bug fix release. Today's intermittent performance problems were identified and...

Posted: August 18, 2014, 6:40 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance 7 AM on 8/21

The UMBC Blackboard server will be down 7 AM Thurs 8/21

The UMBC Blackboard server will be down beginning at 7 AM on Thursday, 8/21.  This downtime is outside of the regularly scheduled maintenance window but is necessary for DoIT staff to...

Posted: August 18, 2014, 11:07 AM

RT Downtime 8-18-2014 6pm

RT Downtime

On August 11, 2014 I posted a news article indicating the availability of the rt-dev-new.core.umbc.edu test area fro RT 4.0.21. This version is primarily a security and minor bug patch. I have...

Posted: August 14, 2014, 10:15 AM

AD network share drive downtime this Friday at 6:00pm

As part of our continuing commitment to security the servers that provide the department network shared drives need to be taken down so the operating system can be upgraded and patched. This...

Posted: August 13, 2014, 4:54 PM

LDAP-master and webadmin downtime on 8/21/2014

Hello all. On Thursday, August 21st starting at 2pm LDAP-Master and Webadmin will be taken down for system maintenance.  During this time account creations and password changes will be...

Posted: August 13, 2014, 10:55 AM

RT Downtime 8-22-2014

RT

Please note that RT-Request Tracker will be down on August 22, 2014 from 6pm - 8pm for systems maintenance. Please contact me if you have any questions. Joe Kirby

Posted: August 12, 2014, 12:39 PM

RT patch upgrade

RT

UMBC is currently on version 4.0.6. BestPractical, the RT vendor, has provided numerous patches and upgrades with the latest being version 4.0.21. DoIT has applied these patches to our...

Posted: August 11, 2014, 1:59 PM

Server Patching Friday August 22nd

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure will be conducting its quarterly patching of systems.  While many of the systems will be patched without any service...

Posted: August 5, 2014, 4:36 PM

REX report updates

Several REX reports have been modified as follows: The Course Enrollment report parameters have been modified to use Subject Reporting College and Org instead of Academic Org and Group.  The...

Posted: August 5, 2014, 10:56 AM