The following maintenance activities will take place this Thursday beginning at 9 PM:

• The Banner Databases and Banner Web services will be unavailable from approximately 9 PM until 11 PM for maintenance.
• Employee and TEC Classroom computers will receive a small program to assist Computing Services with general administration. No noticeable impact is expected.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at x7741 or via email at asccompserv@adams.edu

Thank you,

Computing Services

The following maintenance activities will be performed during the normal weekly maintenance window:

• Employee, Lab and TEC Classroom computers will receive critical Windows security patches. All employees are encouraged to leave their computers turned on when they leave work on Thursday afternoon.
• Email services for Employees will be down temporarily as a firmware upgrade is completed on the Barracuda servers. Estimated downtime is from 9 PM until 10 PM.
• A reboot of several servers such as LDAP, Portal, and the One Stop will be performed at roughly 9 PM. No noticeable outages should occur.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at x7741, or via email at asccompserv@adams.edu

The following maintenance activities will take place this Thursday, beginning at 9 PM during our normally scheduled maintenance window:

• All network services will be briefly interrupted for approximately one hour while we install critical security patches on the systems. This will affect all network services including labs, wireless, faculty and staff access during this time.
• The Banner forms server and Banner web server will be down briefly for routine maintenance beginning at 9 PM and lasting until roughly Midnight.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at x7741.

Thank you,

Computing Services

The following maintenance activities will take place beginning at 9 PM:

• Banner Access and School Services will be unavailable while updates are installed for the Financial Aid Module. This will begin around 9 PM and last for approximately 1 hour.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at x7741.

The following maintenance activity will be performed this Thursday, August 26th from 9 PM until Midnight:

• The file server (myfiles.adams.edu) will be down for approximately 3 hours in order to repair a corrupted partition beginning at 9 PM. During this time, access to home and shared directories will be unavailable.

If you have any questions, please contact the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at x7741.

The following maintenance activities will be performed after 9 PM this Thursday night:

• Banner web services including school services will be down for roughly 30 minutes due to a scheduled reboot.
• Email services to Faculty and Staff will be down from 9 PM until  Midnight for a scheduled firmware upgrade.
• The photo server (srvphoto1) will be down for approximately 30 minutes for scheduled maintenance.

Voicemail outage Sunday, 8/1/2010:

• Voicemail services will be up and down Sunday during reconfiguration of the system. Services should be restored late Sunday.

If you have any questions or concerns, please call the ASC Computing Services at x7741.

Thanks!

• During our normally scheduled maintenance window, all network access and services will be temporarily unavailable between 9 PM and midnight this Thursday, July 22nd. Computing Services is performing scheduled maintenance and testing during this time on all critical services, so all major systems will be inaccessible during this time. If you experience any issues logging into your computer or other systems on Friday morning, please reboot your computer. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at x7741.

Thanks for your patience,

Computing Services

The Banner database will be shutdown at 5:00 PM on Wednesday Jul 14 for approximately 5 hours. This is needed to install the new Touchnet online payment system.

School Services (Self Service Banner) will be down during this maintenance window. Additionally, the School Services links which allow students to view their accounts and make online payments will continue to be unavailable through much of the morning of Thursday July 15. This is necessary to ensure that students do not try to post payments before the business office can configure banner and verify its operation.

All banner users must be logged out of Banner, and their processes must be COMPLETED by 5:00 PM on Wednesday.  Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

Please contact Help Desk at 7741.

The following maintenance activity will take place this Thursday, June 24th beginning at 9 PM.

• The ASC File Server will be taken down for a full back-up beginning at 9 PM and lasting until roughly 10:30 PM. This outage will affect access to home and shared directories.
• This Saturday, June 26th, the File Server will be down from 10 AM until roughly 2 PM for a system upgrade. Again, access to home and shared drives will be down during this time.

If you have any questions or concerns, please call the ASC Helpdesk at x7741 or via email at asccompserv@adams.edu

The following scheduled maintenance activities will take place tonight, Thursday June 17th beginning at 9 PM.

• Wireless services on campus will be down for maintenance from 9 PM until roughly 2 AM. Wireless Internet access will be down during this time. Also, wireless maintenance is scheduled for next Thursday, June 24th as well.
• The file server will have maintenance performed with possible downtime from 9 PM until Midnight. Home and shared directories will be inaccessible during this time.
• The RT Helpdesk ticketing system will be down briefly after 9 PM for security patch installation.

If you have any questions or concerns, please call the ASC Helpdesk at x7741 or via email at asccompserv@adams.edu