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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

Bb Known Issue: Email Sent in HTML Format vs. Plain Text

Over the past month DoIT has received reports from both faculty and students that emails sent through Blackboard contain HTML code. In some instances users have complained that the embedded code...

Posted: October 1, 2010, 5:46 PM

Reminder: 24/7 Bb Support Now For Students Only

UPDATED Dec. 3, 2010: DoIT encourages faculty to continue to steer their students to the 24/7 Bb Support Portal as a "first line of defense" for assistance with any technical Blackboard...

Posted: October 1, 2010, 2:54 PM

Blackboard Service Restored 8:45AM

Update at 8:45AM Blackboard service has been restored. We will be monitoring the systems throughout the day. --------------------------------- Update at 7:30AM UMBC’s Blackboard system is...

Posted: September 27, 2010, 7:02 AM

DoIT Publishes 2010 Annual Report

Jack Suess, VP of IT and CIO Welcome to the Division of Information Technology’s (DoIT) first annual report. Reflecting on this time last year, our focus was on four major initiatives: • The...

Posted: September 25, 2010, 11:36 PM