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January 12, 2009

January Monthly Downtime

The monthly downtime for applying operating system security and related patches is scheduled for the evening of Wednesday January 14, from 10:00 p.m. ­ Thursday 2:00 a.m.

Services that will be unavailable on January 14 include, but are not limited to:

  • PAWS
  • E-mail (including Webmail)
  • File Services (Folder, Cabinet, Jade, Bermuda, TangoWeb (SSAM/gsis), WinWeb (FMD))
  • Print Services (CPAS, Network Printing on the Server Green)
  • Blackboard (formerly WebCT)
  • MITS
  • Database Hosting (Servers Affected: SQLserver, Oracle)
  • Exchange (Calendar, E-mail, Notes, and Blackberry Integration)
  • U-Who
  • U-friend
  • SiRIUS
  • UniFi
  • Web Services (WWW, Homepage)

Note: Test environments for the aforementioned services will be patched on January 13, 2008 between 8:00 a.m. and noon.

Services that schedule downtimes independent of this schedule are:

  • About-Us (HR system)
  • Network
  • Voicemail