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DUO Multi-Factor Authentication Outage

We are aware of an issue affecting DUO Multi-Factor Authentication for some users. While certain authentication methods may still be working, others are experiencing intermittent or complete...

Posted: February 13, 2025, 5:40 PM

DoIT News Moving to myUMBC Groups

As of today, the DoIT News will be published through the DoIT Group on myUMBC, which in turn feeds the new DoIT site at doit.umbc.edu. As such, we will no longer be maintaining this Movable Type...

Posted: July 3, 2012, 10:19 AM

June 1 2012 Mail Delivery Delays

Today UMBC was the victim of a targeted spamming attack that overwhelmed our e-mail environment. Our staff are working to address the issues but it has been challenging as all of the spam is...

Posted: June 1, 2012, 9:04 PM

DoIT Launches Annual User Survey

As part of its annual assessment plan, the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) invites the campus community to complete the following annual survey of information technology services....

Posted: April 30, 2012, 8:37 AM

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