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Classroom/Event Scheduling Downtime (R25)

Please note that the Classroom and Event scheduling system known as R25 will be down from 4-15-2014 through 4-17-2014. The downtime is needed to complete phase 1 of 2 for migrating the current...

Posted: April 9, 2014, 2:14 PM

Cyrus Mail Outage Tonight at 10pm

At 10pm tonight, Tuesday April 8th, there will be a 45min outage of the Cyrus mail system.  This outage is needed to patch a critical security vulnerability which has just been discovered.  In...

Posted: April 8, 2014, 4:33 PM

Change to Lab Profile

MyDocuments No Longer Available In The Labs

After Thursday, May 22, the My Documents folder on lab computers will be disabled for storing files. Instead, DoIT recommends using Box (box.umbc.edu) for storing all of your files.  Combined with...

Posted: April 4, 2014, 5:27 PM

Everyone Must Reset Password and Create Security Questions

Deadline: May 23, 2014

Update: Given recent IT security threats generally, DoIT has decided to force the password change to May 23, 2014, the day after Undergraduate Commencement. Thank you in advance for your patience...

Posted: April 2, 2014, 10:57 PM

RT Slowness Update

As most of you know RT has been experiencing some performance issues which have been hard to diagnose. DoIT has increased the computing power several times since the upgrade in December for the...

Posted: March 31, 2014, 8:01 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 3/28 to 1 am 3/29

The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 3/28 to 1 am Saturday 3/29.  This down time is during the regularly scheduled maintenance window and is necessary for DoIT staff to...

Posted: March 27, 2014, 8:03 PM

Changes to the Blackboard WT2014 Server

http://bb-winter.umbc.edu will go offline on 3/21

DoIT staff will be making several changes to the WT2014 Bb server in preparation for archiving/restoring the WT2014 courses to the UMBC Bb production server.  All WT2014 instructors have been...

Posted: March 14, 2014, 1:43 PM

System Downtime Over Spring Break

System Downtime

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: March 11, 2014, 8:49 AM

LDAP and webadmin downtime on 3/20/2014

Hello all. On Wednesday, March 20th 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: March 5, 2014, 11:16 AM

Job Posting: Asst. Director of Instructional Technology

Review of applications begins 3/28/14, Open until filled

DoITs ITNM group announces the search for an Assistant Director of Instructional Technology. For more information, view the posting on the HR web site.

Posted: February 28, 2014, 9:47 AM