Blackboard, computing network outages planned for Sunday morning

By: Information Resources and Technologies

Published at: 12:01 a.m. Friday, June 25, 2010

Information Resources and Technologies will conduct upgrades to its central systems between 12:01 a.m. and noon Sunday, June 27.

The Blackboard server will be down during this maintenance period; additionally, the identity management system (idm.stthomas.edu) will be down between 2 and 5 a.m. Visit the IRT Alerts page for real-time updates on this and all planned outages, unplanned outages and security alerts.

All other central university technology resources may be affected while necessary servers are replaced, upgrades are installed and routine maintenance is conducted. Although the work is targeted at specific components of the central systems, the following UST resources may experience intermittent interruptions:

E-mail
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES)
Exchange ActivSync (EAS)
MailMarshal
Lyris
Blackboard
UST Web
Collage
RFS
Banner
Optix
R25 and Event Viewer
Courseweb
ReportNet
Appworx
Cognos
Murphy Online
NetID
Breeze / Adobe Connect
Library databases

IRT hopes that this scheduled outage will result in minimal, if any, inconvenience and will communicate additional updates as needed.

Questions? Contact the IRT Tech Desk, (651) 962-6230.

This article was posted at 12:01 a.m. Friday, June 25, 2010 and is filed under University News.