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Classroom Occupancy report now available

The Classroom Occupancy report shows a grid of rooms and times and the room occupancy during the time slots.  When you run the report and select days it will show the occupancy (denoted by an X...

Posted: November 23, 2010, 10:38 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 11/26...

Full Title: Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 11/26 to 1 am Sat. 11/27The UMBC Blackboard server will be down for three hours of scheduled maintenance starting this Friday, November...

Posted: November 23, 2010, 4:18 PM

Update:Voice Mail System Error

Update 11-19-10 1:00 p.m. Voice mail access was restored at approximately 1pm today. --------------------------------- This morning one of our phone nodes suffered a failure. At this time anyone...

Posted: November 19, 2010, 10:57 AM

Student Course Enrollment by Plan report now available

Need to determine the best time for a meeting with your advisees or student group members? Or perhaps you'd like to see how many of your advisees or student group members are in the same course...

Posted: November 19, 2010, 8:19 AM

Partial mail service interruption 11:35am - 12:10pm...

Full Title: Partial mail service interruption 11:35am - 12:10pm Fri 10/29/2010Today at 11:35am, ms1, one of our seven back-end mail servers, became unresponsive. We were able to get it back in...

Posted: October 29, 2010, 1:23 PM

Urgent Service Outage, Friday, October 29, 2010

An urgent service outage is needed today to address performance issues with several campus systems such as Active Directory (AD), Blackboard and Financial Systems. Specifically, these services...

Posted: October 29, 2010, 12:13 PM

Storage Failure Affects Blackboard

Today from approximately noon to 2pm the Blackboard server was unavailable. This was due a controller on a storage array going bad. Unfortunately, the server attached to this storage was...

Posted: October 26, 2010, 5:47 PM

Coming Soon: Group Notifications

An easier way to stay on top of your groups.

After a bit of a break, I'm pleased to announce the upcoming release of a new feature for myUMBC: Group Notifications. One thing we've heard from group members is that once they join a group,...

Posted: October 19, 2010, 10:01 AM

DoIT services unavailable Fri Oct 22nd 10pm-midnight...

In order to complete some necessary DoIT storage infrastructure upgrades, the following services will need to be offline (unavailable) from 10pm to midnight on Friday, October 22nd. - Webmail...

Posted: October 19, 2010, 9:19 AM