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May 1: FA2013 Lab & Lecture Hall Software Requests Deadline

Need that certain something installed?

In order to load all lab and lecture hall PCs with our standard set of software (known as an "image"), all requests for additions or changes for Fall 2013 must be received by Wednesday, May 1. For...

Posted: April 5, 2013, 9:07 AM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 3/22 to 1 am 3/23

The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 3/22 to 1 am Saturday 3/23.  This down time is during the regularly scheduled maintenance window and is necessary for DoIT staff to...

Posted: March 22, 2013, 11:41 AM

Reminder: REX downtime today

Just a reminder that REX will be down today, Thursday, March 21, from 2 pm until Friday, March 22 at 8:30 am for system maintenance. We will send out another email when REX is available. This...

Posted: March 21, 2013, 8:48 AM

New REX report available - Application Trends by Plan

This new report provides Applied, Admitted, Confirmed, and Enrolled counts for the selected term as of the selected date, as well as the two previous terms for comparison purposes.  Counts are...

Posted: March 19, 2013, 1:20 PM

UMBC To Discontinue Five Legacy Email Domains

April 4 - Legacy Email Delivery Will Be Stopped

UMBC will discontinue delivery of email sent to five legacy email domains beginning April 4, 2013. During the past two months there has been an increase in spam to the campus. Analysis of the mail...

Posted: March 15, 2013, 11:51 AM

Kerberos Upgrade

Kerberos upgrade Wednesday March 20th, 8:30am to 11am

On Wednesday March 20th starting at 8:30am DoIT will be upgrading our Kerberos environment.  This upgrade is being done to achieve audit compliance as well as overhaul an old system.  The outage...

Posted: March 14, 2013, 4:41 PM

Mathematica and Wolfram Pro Training, April 9th 2:30-3:45

Using Mathematica for Teaching & Research

Teaching & Research with Mathematica 9 and Wolfram|Alpha Pro Tuesday, April 9, 2013 2:30-3:45pm, including Q&A Rm. 401, Math/Psyc Building, UMBC This talk illustrates capabilities in...

Posted: March 13, 2013, 3:06 PM

Userpages Downtime

Userpages will be down from 9am to 12pm on March 16th

The UMBC userpages web server will be taken down for system maintenance on Saturday, March 16 at 9am.  This downtime is expected to be completed in 3 hours.  During this time, any web page hosted...

Posted: March 13, 2013, 2:01 PM

Qualtrics Survey Tool Launched for CAHSS

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) is happy to announce the release of Qualtrics, an online survey instrument, for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS). Beginning...

Posted: March 12, 2013, 2:41 PM

Blackboard Maintenance Scheduled for 3/15, 6-9 p.m.

DoIT has been working with Blackboard on an issue that requires maintenance and a restart of our main production server this Friday, March 15, at 6 to 9 p.m. Normally, we would wait until our...

Posted: March 11, 2013, 9:24 PM