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Data Center Shut Down Friday, April 29th

In preparation for the campus wide power outage scheduled on Sunday, April 29th, DoIT will be shutting down one of our two campus data centers. During the power outage there will be no backup...

Posted: April 23, 2012, 4:30 PM

Gmail Service Disruption

The Technology Support Center (previously known as the Help Desk) began receiving reports around 1:15pm today that UMBC's Gmail system was not working. This does not appear to be affecting all...

Posted: April 17, 2012, 2:33 PM

Human Resources to Release New UMBC Holidays Calendar

In 2011, the campus transitioned to Google Calendar as the campus-wide calendaring solution. Incorporated in the use of Google Calendar is the need identify when the campus observes holidays...

Posted: March 21, 2012, 9:48 PM

McAfee to be Replaced by Microsoft's Forefront Anti Virus

Starting the week of March 26th the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) will begin phasing out McAfee as our antivirus (AV) software and moving to Microsoft’s AV software named Forefront....

Posted: March 7, 2012, 10:31 AM