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How the DIT Group Got Started

Bridging the communication between DoIT and DIT

Image shows Stan Kahn receiving DIT Emeritus Award For Outstanding Service to Departmental IT Staff and the UMBC Community from Jack Suess During a conversation about 10 years ago, Stan Kahn from...

Posted: September 28, 2015, 1:48 PM

Network Slowness Tuesday afternoon around 1-2pm

Yesterday afternoon around 1pm the UMBC network experienced slow connectivity throughout the campus. This affected wireless as well as wired connections and user's ability to access UMBC and...

Posted: September 23, 2015, 8:15 AM

Sprint Cellular Service on Campus

Sprint is Back Online

As reported last week, the cellular equipment that supports Sprint caught on fire.  We just received word that the damaged equipment has been replaced and service should be back to normal.  If...

Posted: September 21, 2015, 12:05 PM

Sprint Cellular Service on Campus

Sprint's Cellular Equipment is Down

Earlier today, the Sprint Cellular equipment on campus caught on fire.  Thankfully, the fire was contained and did not spread beyond Sprint's site.  Sprint came to campus to begin repair work, and...

Posted: September 16, 2015, 11:51 AM

New reports about REX Activities

Two new reports have been created in REX to allow users to search REX usage and various activities executed by departments and users. Results are displayed...

Posted: September 15, 2015, 2:53 PM

RT-at-a-Glance Rights Suspension

RT

RT experienced a major performance issue over the 2015 Labor Day weekend. After many hours of research, including vendor involvement, the issue was identified as a few users having some items on...

Posted: September 15, 2015, 7:02 AM

Review of DoIT Communications

Notification by DoIT Student Worker Was a Mistake

To The UMBC Campus Community, Recently a DoIT student employee contacted members of the campus that they may have a number of files on their computers containing personally identifiable...

Posted: September 10, 2015, 7:18 PM

Fall 2015 Begin Term Census data is now available in REX

IRADS has released the official data for Fall 2015.  It should now appear as a Term option in the Census Data reports in REX.  As a reminder, in REX official Day 10 numbers are labeled with a...

Posted: September 10, 2015, 12:22 PM

Network and Wireless Outages Today (September 9th)

Earlier today around 1:00pm there was a unplanned outage to the wireless networks across campus. Full service was restored a few minutes later.  Later in the day, around 4:50pm there was an...

Posted: September 9, 2015, 5:34 PM

Admitted Students by Plan (Ugrad) report updated in REX

The Admitted Students by Plan (Ugrad) report in REX has been modified to allow for selection by Reporting Plan instead of Plan.  Rather than selecting each track/degree code for each plan, you...

Posted: September 3, 2015, 10:26 AM