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Scheduled: Software Updates for Webservers

Multiple Servers, Web Applications, Web Server

Between 6:30 AM and 6:45 AM on Friday, November 20 we will be performing software updates on two website servers. You may notice intermittent issues accessing www.emu.edu and appsrv2.emu.edu during this time. The following services will be affected:

The web-accessible interface of the Broadcast Email system will be unavailable during this outage. However, emails sent into the Broadcast system will continue to be processed normally, but their delivery may be delayed slightly.

Scheduled: Website and Database Migrations

Web Applications, Web Server

Update 9:20am: The migration of the broadcast email system is complete. All systems should be restored.

Update 9:00am: The migration of www.emu.edu has completed. We’re still in the process of migrating databases for the broadcast email system.

On Saturday, September 19th between 8am and 9am we will be migrating the EMU website to a new web-server. During this time you may experience intermittent issues accessing the website.

In addition, several databases that provide services to the EMU website will be migrated to a new server. You may notice slight disruptions of the following services:

  • Broadcast Email system (all emails will be sent, but may be delayed slightly)
  • Limesurvey based surveys, including any Course Evaluation surveys
  • Machform based forms

Scheduled: Moodle Upgrade to 2.9

LMS

On Monday, 13 July 2015 between 8:00am and 12:00pm, Information Systems will be upgrading our Moodle system to version 2.9.

Moodle will be unavailable during the upgrade. No other systems will be affected.

Highlights of the new features in v2.9 include:

  • Improvements/fixes to the gradebook
  • Navigation improvements
  • Redesigned user profile page

For more details please read the new features tour or the Moodle 2.9 release notes. There’s also a series of videos that describe new version 2.9 features.

Please contact the Helpdesk with questions or comments: helpdesk@emu.edu or 540 432 4357 (x4357 on the Harrisonburg campus).