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Status of Taki and update on reported issues

Earlier this week we upgraded slurm (our scheduling software) to try and fix several bugs that had been identified over the past few weeks through working with our support vendor. This upgrade...

Posted: August 22, 2019, 8:37 PM

Import Panopto News

Downtime (6/22) and Mandatory Client Upgrade (7/18)

There are two important upcoming dates and a product update: June 22, 2019: Panopto Cloud Downtime On Saturday, June 22, Panopto Cloud customers will be upgraded to Panopto 7.0. This upgrade...

Posted: April 26, 2019, 12:06 PM

UMBC FAQ Knowledge Base Limited to Campus Use Only

Due to a recently published set of security vulnerabilities, UMBC’s Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) website at umbc.edu/faq  is no longer accessible outside of UMBC. DoIT is going to keep this...

Posted: April 15, 2019, 5:22 PM

Panopto Cloud Scheduled Downtime

Site Maintenance December 15, 7:00-11:00 PM

On December 15, Panopto Cloud customers will be upgraded to Panopto 6.0. This upgrade will require downtime: Site maintenance will begin at 7:00pm EST We expect up to 4 hours of downtime...

Posted: November 30, 2018, 11:15 AM

Blackboard Down for Cloud Migration June 30 - July 8

Summer courses remain ONLINE during this period

click here to access summer courses Per DoIT’s March 8 and April 28 announcements, Blackboard engineers will migrate the primary UMBC Blackboard site (blackboard.umbc.edu) beginning at 12:01...

Posted: June 7, 2017, 3:28 PM

Disruptions to Peoplesoft Student Administration System

Earlier today some users on campus experienced slowness or inability to access certain aspects of the Peoplesoft Student Administration System. We have worked to stabilize the system have...

Posted: January 30, 2017, 4:17 PM

VPN Upgrade Wednesday January 11th at 10:00pm

We will be upgrading our VPN software this Wednesday evening from 10:00pm to 11:00pm.  This change is fairly significant because the VPN will no longer rely on java to launch the client, which...

Posted: January 10, 2017, 10:02 AM

System Patching Thursday December 22nd starting at 5:00pm

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Thursday, December 22nd from 5pm to 11pm.  While many systems will...

Posted: December 20, 2016, 11:17 AM

Blackboard Upgrade Scheduled Dec. 26, 6:30 AM - 6:30 PM

System-wide update planned

Blackboard engineers will perform a system upgrade and maintenance on Monday morning, December 26, 2016, from 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM. Blackboard will be offline during this period. The downtime...

Posted: December 2, 2016, 9:49 AM