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Network Maintenance
Posted 20 days agoVarious maintenance tasks will cause network connectivity to be periodically interrupted Friday morning between 4am and 7am, which is during the normally scheduled maintenance window.
Emergency Alert Test Message.
Posted 23 days agoA test emergency messages was inadvertently sent to all university computers about 2:30pm on 4/23/12. Please ignore this test message.
Network Maintenance
Posted about 1 month agoVarious maintenance tasks will cause network connectivity to be periodically interrupted Friday morning between 4am and 7am, which is during the normally scheduled maintenance window.
Network Maintenance, Friday, March 30th 2012
Posted about 1 month agoVarious maintenance tasks will cause network connectivity to be periodically interrupted Friday morning between 4am and 7am, which is during the normally scheduled maintenance window.
Network Maintenance
Posted about 1 month agoVarious maintenance tasks will cause network connectivity to be periodically interrupted Friday morning between 4am and 7am, which is during the normally scheduled maintenance window.
Network Glitch
Posted about 1 month agoNetwork was briefly down between 11:48AM and 11:50AM. Problem has been resolved.
Network Maintenance
Posted about 1 month agoVarious maintenance tasks will cause network connectivity to be periodically interrupted Friday morning between 4am and 7am, which is during the normally scheduled maintenance window.
Network Maintenance
Posted 2 months agoVarious maintenance tasks will cause network connectivity to be periodically interrupted Friday morning between 4am and 7am, which is during the normally scheduled maintenance window.
EMS Master Calendar Upgrade
Posted 2 months agoThe EMS Master Calendar -- http://calendar.uwec.edu/ -- will be offline for upgrades between 5:30 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. on Friday, March 16, which is during the normally scheduled maintenance window. This downtime and upgrade will not affect other EMS Enterprise tools.
Network Back Up
Posted 2 months agoWe had an issue with our CISCO core router today at approximately 11:45AM that prevented some users from being able to use email, get to networked drives and load our home page. Problem was resolved shortly before noon.
Network Maintenance
Posted 2 months agoVarious maintenance tasks will cause network connectivity to be periodically interrupted Friday morning between 4am and 7am, which is during the normally scheduled maintenance window.
Wireless Network Maintenance
Posted 3 months agoVarious maintenance tasks will cause wireless network connectivity to be periodically interrupted Friday morning between 4am and 7am, which is during the normally scheduled maintenance window.
Email delay
Posted 3 months agoOn 2/22/2012, a misconfigured spam filter caused some UWEC email to get quarantined. The problem was discovered and fixed this morning, and the quarantined email was redelivered to the originally intended recipients by 2:30p.
Network Maintenance
Posted 3 months agoVarious maintenance tasks will cause network connectivity to be periodically interrupted Friday morning between 4am and 7am, which is during the normally scheduled maintenance window.
MyBlugold/CampS Unavailable 2/18/2012
Posted 3 months agoMyBlugold/CampS (Camps Only) will be down for maintenance between 4:00am–12:00pm this Saturday. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Kathie Emerson at emersokl@uwec.edu. Sorry for any inconvenience, LTS Development
Network Maintenance
Posted 3 months agoVarious maintenance tasks will cause network connectivity to be periodically interrupted Friday morning between 4am and 7am, which is during the normally scheduled maintenance window.
Network Maintenance
Posted 4 months agoVarious maintenance tasks will cause network connectivity to be periodically interrupted Friday morning between 4am and 7am, which is during the normally scheduled maintenance window.
CommonSpot Web Publishing
Posted 4 months agoCommonSpot web publishing will be interrupted due to routine maintenance tasks Friday morning between 4am and 7am, which is the normally scheduled maintenance window.
Network Maintenance
Posted 4 months agoVarious maintenance tasks will cause network connectivity to be periodically interrupted Friday morning between 4am and 7am, which is during the normally scheduled maintenance window.
Activate Your D2L Courses
Posted 4 months agoEducators, be sure to activate the spring D2L course(s) you are using for instruction. Students cannot access inactive D2L courses. Help documentation on this topic can be found at http://www.uwec.edu/Help/campus/d2l/activating.htm.
Network Maintenance
Posted 4 months agoVarious maintenance tasks will cause network connectivity to be periodically interrupted Friday morning between 4am and 7am, which is during the normally scheduled maintenance window.
Reminder: D2L Outage Tonight
Posted 4 months agoD2L will be upgraded to version 9.4.1 tonight -- beginning 10:00 pm (Wednesday, January 11) and ending 10:00 am tomorrow (Thursday, January 12). D2L will be completely unavailable during this 12-hour outage.
Scheduled Maintenance - Friday, January 13, 2012
Posted 4 months agoThe following major servers and services will be unavailable Friday, January 13, 2012, from 4a - 7a: 1. Printing in all offices and labs 2. DHCP network services 3. SMTP services 4. Student and Staff H: drives 5. Student and Staff department and academic drives (S: and W:) 6. Virtual Desktops/Labs(VDIservices)
MyBlugold/CampS Unavailable 1/16/2012 8:30am-12:00pm
Posted 4 months agoMyBlugold/CampS (Camps Only) will be down for maintenance between 8:30am–12:00pm on 1/16/2012. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Kathie Emerson at emersokl@uwec.edu. Sorry for any inconvenience, LTS Development
CommonSpot Authoring is Back
Posted 4 months agoAuthoring in CommonSpot can now be resumed. We apologize for the inconvenience.
CommonSpot Authentication Unavailable
Posted 4 months agoDue to a heat issue on the server floor, access to CommonSpot authoring is unavailable. We'll alert you when services have returned. Thanks for your patience.
Possible D2L Service Disruptions Sunday, Jan. 8: midnight-8:00 am
Posted 4 months agoDue to network maintenance being performed at UW-Madison (where D2L servers are housed) on Sunday morning, January 8, there may be momentary disruptions in D2L service during the hours of midnight through 8:00 am that day. Please avoid taking quizzes or entering grades during this time period.
Scheduled Virtual Lab Maintenance
Posted 4 months agoFriday, 1/6/2012, the VDI virtual desktop environemnt will be unavailable from 5a-7a for routine maintenance.
Schedule W: drive maintenance
Posted 4 months agoFriday, 1/6/2012, the W: drive (student academic shares) will be unavailable from 4a-7a for routine maintenance.
CommonSpot Authoring Resumed
Posted 5 months agoCommonSpot Web authoring has been resumed. We apologize for the inconvenience.
CommonSpot Authoring
Posted 5 months agoAuthoring for CommonSpot web publishers has been disabled while perform maintenance on our servers. We will alert you when services are restored.
Desire 2 Learn (D2L)
Posted 5 months agoServers in Madison, servicing D2L, are having problems. You can monitor and get the latest information here: http://outages.doit.wisc.edu/
Web Sites Very Slow
Posted 5 months agoWe are currently experiencing a spotty problem with some web sites loading so slowly as to be virtually unavailable. The issue should be resolved soon.
CommonSpot Authoring Unavailable until Monday
Posted 6 months agoUntil further notice, authoring using CommonSpot will be unavailable until performance issues with the upgrade can be corrected. Your patience with us during this time has been terrific. Our sites are still available for viewing. If you have an emergency need, contact web@uwec.edu. Thank you.
Common Spot Up
Posted 6 months agoCommon Spot upgrade has been successful! You should now be able to author/edit.
CommonSpot Upgrade is Progressing
Posted 6 months agoPlease bear with us as the CommonSpot upgrade continues. This only affects web publishing, not viewing. We are very close and will send a status when complete.
CommonSpot Authoring Not Available Yet
Posted 6 months agoCommonSpot authoring is currently unavailable as the upgrade to CommonSpot 6.2 has not quite completed. We expect to complete the process very soon and will notify you just as soon as it occurs. We are sorry for any inconvenience.
CommonSpot Upgrade Will Affect Web Publishing
Posted 6 months agoWe are on track for the upgrade to CommonSpot 6.2 Friday morning, December 2. Be aware of the following: -Authoring services will be unavailable starting at midnight tonight, Thursday. -If all goes well, you can begin to make changes around 7:00 am on Friday. -During the morning on Friday, we ask you to make minor changes to your pages and report any problems immediately to web@uwec.edu. -As a precaution, in case we would need to revert back to our previous version of CommonSpot, please track any changes you make on Friday as you would need to recreate should a reversion be needed. -We’ll send you a status update around noon on Friday. More detail and a link to the Guide handout can be found on the Rolling out CommonSpot 6.2 page: http://www.uwec.edu/Webdev/cs/cs62.htm
Blocked Email
Posted 6 months agoFor the last few days, dozens of UWEC users have been responding to email phishing “password request” attacks from a variety of spammers all over the world. Those spammers have been using those passwords to send hundreds of thousands of spam emails through our servers, resulting in us getting blocked all over the internet. Steps have been taken to prevent this from happening in the future. As always, NEVER send your password to anyone via email. Over the next few hours the UWEC email servers should become unblocked and allow you to send email off campus. LTS
MyBlugold CampS Maintenance
Posted 6 months agoMyBlugold CampS (CampS only) will be unavailable between 7am and 11am on 11/19/2011 while software updates are applied.
Email Being Sent Off-Campus Is Being Rejected
Posted 6 months agoWe had someone fall victim to a phishing attack and they gave out their email name and password. Subsequently their email account was used to spend out massive quantities of spam so many other email systems around the world are now blocking any email being sent from UW-Eau Claire. We are working to resolve this. Please, never, ever send your password to ANYONE and if you are creating passwords for other sites/purposes DO NOT use the same password.
Blocked Email
Posted 6 months agoThe UWEC email server is currently being blocked by numerous internet email servers, due to a compromised student account and password. Email services like Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, CVTC, etc will be blocking us for a while.
CommonSpot Upgrade is Postponed
Posted 6 months agoThe Upgrade to CommonSpot 6.2 has been postponed due to unforeseen technical issues. A new date will be announced soon.
CommonSpot Upgrade
Posted 6 months agoWe will be upgrading our web site to latest version of CommonSpot. No editing of existing content will be allowed this weekend. The upgrade will be completed Monday morning.
Network Maintenance
Posted 6 months agoVarious maintenance tasks will cause network connectivity to be periodically interrupted Friday morning between 4am and 7am, which is during the normally scheduled maintenance window.
Server Maintenance
Posted 7 months agoOn Friday, November 4, 2011, the following services will be unavailable from 4a - 7a for routine maintenance: 1. All office printing 2. MEDIA01 (Video Project Editing) 3. CASS1 (W: drive)
D2L Outage Tomorrow
Posted 7 months agoEducators and Students: A D2L outage for maintenance is planned for tomorrow during the early morning maintenance window: Thursday, October 27 5:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m. CDT D2L will be completely unavailable during this outage.
Network Maintenance
Posted 7 months agoVarious maintenance tasks will cause network connectivity to be periodically interrupted Friday morning between 4am and 7am, which is during the normally scheduled maintenance window.
MyBlugold/CampS Unavailable 10/28/2011 4:00am-7:00am
Posted 7 months agoMyBlugold/CampS(CampS only) will be down for maintenance between 4:00am–7:00am on Friday 10/28/2011. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Kathie Emerson at emersokl@uwec.edu. Sorry for any inconvenience, LTS Development
MyBlugold/CampS Unavailable 10/21/2011 4:00am-6:00am
Posted 7 months agoMyBlugold/CampS(CampS only) will be down for maintenance between 4:00am–6:00am on 10/21/2011. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Kathie Emerson at emersokl@uwec.edu. Sorry for any inconvenience, LTS Development
Network Maintenance
Posted 8 months agoVarious maintenance tasks will cause network connectivity to be periodically interrupted Friday morning between 4am and 7am, which is during the normally scheduled maintenance window.
Web authentication service restored
Posted 8 months agoThe web based “central authentication system” service has been restored. These following systems are available again: • MyBlugold Camps • “Authoring” system for http://www.uwec.edu • Qualtrix Survey • Library Research Databases Thanks for your patience, Learning & Technology Services
Network Connectivity on upper campus is down
Posted 8 months agoNetwork Connectivity on upper campus is down. It could potentially be affecting the Hobbs and the Marshfield Campus
Scheduled Maintenance - 8/19/2011
Posted 9 months agoThe following services will be unavailable from 4a-7a on 8/19/2011 during routine maintenance: 1. Staff H: drives (\\staff\username$) 2. Staff S: drives (\\staff\deptsh$) 3. **Student H: drives (\\students\username$) 4. Office printing 5. Virtual Lab PCs 6. Email **Student H: drives will be unavailable from 4a-10a for extended maintenance.
Brief Web Services Outage
Posted 9 months agoAn unplanned web services outage was experienced around 12:40 pm today. We apologize for any inconvenience.
http://www.uwec.edu search functionality
Posted 9 months agoOn Saturday, August 13, from 8a-9a, the http://www.uwec.edu "search" engine will unavailable for maintenance. During this time the normal http://www.uwec.edu website will remain functioning.
H: & S: drives unavailable
Posted 9 months agoStudent and Staff H: drives, along with departmental share drives, are currently unavailable due to a failure in the storage system. The time needed to fix this problem is unknown at this point.
H: & S: drives unavailable
Posted 9 months agoStudent and Staff H: drives, along with departmental share drives, were unavailable on 8/6 during most of the day, due to a major hardware failure in the storage system. The problem was fixed around midnight on 8/7.
D2L Outage
Posted 10 months agoAn August D2L outage is planned due to a software upgrade: Wednesday, August 17, at 10:00 p.m. - Thursday, August 18, at 10:00 a.m. D2L will be completely unavailable during this 12-hour outage.
