Major Network Outage Planned for This Weekend (3/12 & 3/13)

03/08/16

Digital Instruction and Information Services (DIIS) is moving forward, as planned, with major network maintenance for this weekend, late evening Saturday, March 12th into mid-day Sunday, March 13th. The maintenance is required to replace aging components of our network infrastructure. This upgrade is the first in a series of steps that are planned for the spring and summer to create a more robust, modern network to help minimize issues such as those which disrupted our network over the last several days. 

The outage is expected to have the following impacts.

• Virtually all campus computing systems and services (including myHome, Parnassus, Homer, Sakai, Mentor, network printing, etc.) will be unavailable from anywhere (on campus or off campus). The exception will be Outlook email and calendar, which will be accessible from residence halls, off campus, and mobile devices not connected to the IC network.
• Academic and administrative buildings will not have any network access (wired or wireless), to anywhere.
• Residence halls will have normal internet access, but only to non-IC, external sites. 

The maintenance work is expected to take several hours. Though our goal would be to complete the work between 10:00 PM on Saturday and the early morning hours of Sunday, the complexity of the work may result in an outage period that potentially extends to as late as 1:00 PM on Sunday.

Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

Digital Instruction and Information Services
Service Desk
servicedesk@ithaca.edu
104 Job Hall
4-1000

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