Category Archives: File Server

November scheduled maintenance

UPDATE at 2 p.m: Maintenance has been successful, though systems will not be available until about 3 p.m.

A support pack will be applied to EMU’s fileservers, affecting file and print services. This is a routine maintenance procedure to ensure server stability and security.

Working with files on the network during this period is STRONGLY discouraged.

E-mail, calendar and other services that depend on the Royal Password will be unavailable during periods of this outage.

Other services, such as Internet access, Campusweb and Blackboard will remain available.

ALL servers outage — September maintenance

UPDATE at 2:00: The bulk of the work has been completed, however, the following services are currently unavaible:
– Terminal Server (TServe)
– TMA
– Choice Ticketing
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This outage will affect ALL network services. Internet access should remain available for most of the time, however. Some services will be available during this period, though you are encouraged to not count on them.

A number of housekeeping tasks will be copleted, including:
– updates for disaster-recovery
– reorganization of cabling in the Data Center
– hardware upgrades for the file servers
– transition to a new web server

This item and the Critical Information Alert will be updated hourly if the work is not completed within the expected timeframe.