Category Archives: Blackboard Server

Blackboard server outage: Fri, Feb 4, 7-8:00 US EST – routine patch install

Downtime NOTICE:
Blackboard will be unavailable on Thurs Feb 3 from 7:00 – 8:00 AM US Eastern Standard Time (UT: 1200 – 1300 hrs.) for routine patch/maintenance upgrades. This should be a routine, low-risk patch, and we do NOT anticipate any extended problems. Please accept my apologies for this late notice, but we’d like to complete this before the weekend.

If problems crop up, we can revert back to the previous state fairly quickly, so an hour should be sufficient to handle those contingencies.

A few faculty have recently report some anomalies in Blackboard. We believe it would be prudent to install these 3 minor upgrades to try and resolve some of those glitches.

1 Hr BlackBoard Outage – Security Update, BB Patch

Info Systems will be taking the BlackBoard server off-line early Fri morning (11/21) to apply security updates to the operating system and a patch to the BlackBoard application to fix on outstanding problem.

Installing the updates should take no more than one hour. The system should be back on-line by 7:30am.

This outage will be occurring at the same time as an outage for the mail servers for the application of the same operating system security update.