Tag Archives | Service Outages

Critical Blackboard Downtime Information From 1:50 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 12 through noon Monday, Aug. 20 all Blackboard services will be unavailable. The downtime will enable the migration of all current courses and data to the new system, performance of final product updates and configuration changes, and proper testing of the integrity of the migration. How […]

As part of the Blackboard upgrade that is currently being performed in preparation for the fall semester, the Blackboard environment will be unavailable from noon August 9 until 8 a.m. August 10. If you have any questions, please contact OTS at blackboard@towson.edu

From 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. Sunday, July 29 the following services will be unavailable:

Towson University is pleased to announce the upgrade to version seven of the Blackboard learning environment. Over the next few months the new system will be set up with enhanced functionality, including many features requested by the faculty. New capabilities include: Gradebook Feedback This enables faculty members to add feedback to grades posted in the […]

The virtual workspace service will be down for maintenance Sunday, June 10 from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. If you have any questions about the service outage, please contact the Office of Technology Services’ Operations Center at x4-2438.

The virtual workspace service will be down for maintenance Sunday, June 10 from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. If you have any questions about the service outage, please contact the Office of Technology Services’ Operations Center at x4-2438.

Water in Linthicum Hall will be shut down on Friday, June 8, 2007 from 5 p.m. until midnight. The temporary shutdown is a necessary part of the ongoing construction effort in which utilities are being upgraded. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Mark Behrens at x4-3999 or mbehrens@towson.edu. Thank you in advance […]

The following will be unavailable May 6 during the Office of Technology Services Sunday maintenance window: – 7-9 a.m.: Faculty and Staff e-mail services (Exchange/Pylon) – 7-8 a.m.: Hosted Microsoft SQL Server Databases OTS will perform system updates. If you have any questions, please contact the OTS Operations Center at 410-704-2438.

The following downtimes will occur January 7 during the Office of Technology Services Sunday maintenance window: NEW! The GOLD server will be taken offline, 10-10:30 a.m. for hardware upgrades. As a result, H and O drives, Citrix and special cross-departmental drives will be unavailable. If you have questions, please contact the OTS Operations Center at […]

Blackboard services (My LearnOnline) located at bbweb.towson.edu will be unavailable, 6 a.m.-noon, January 7 during the Office of Technology Services Sunday maintenance window. OTS will perform security updates. If you have questions, please contact the OTS Help Center at 410-704-5151.

E-mail services (Exchange) for faculty/staff/student employees will be unavailable, 7-9 a.m., December 24 during the Office of Technology Services Sunday maintenance window. The downtime will also affect those who synch PDAs with their Exchange e-mail. OTS will perform security and compatibility updates on the Exchange server. If you have questions, please contact the OTS Operations […]

The following will be unavailable 4 a.m.-noon, December 3 due to an infrastructure upgrade by the Office of Technology Services: – Network connectivity to campus computers – TU Web services – Main university Web page – Inside.towson.edu – Network printing – PeopleSoft – Blackboard – Faculty/staff e-mail – Credit card transactions – Database connectivity Student […]

The following will be unavailable 4 a.m.-noon, December 3 due to an infrastructure upgrade by the Office of Technology Services: – Network connectivity to campus computers – TU Web services – Main university Web page – Inside.towson.edu – Network printing – PeopleSoft – Blackboard – Faculty/staff e-mail – Credit card transactions – Database connectivity Student […]

The following downtimes will occur November 19 during the Office of Technology Services’ Sunday maintenance window: – E-mail services (Exchange) for faculty/staff/student employees will be unavailable, 7-9 a.m. – The Pylon service, used to synchronize wireless handheld devices with Exchange, will be unavailable, 7-10 a.m. These outages are necessary as OTS performs maintenance and security […]

All university Web services (Internet, Blackboard, E-mail, PeopleSoft, Tiger, VPN, Pylon, Citrix, RAS, etc.) will be intermittently unavailable 6 a.m.-noon, November 5 during the Office of Technology Services Sunday maintenance window. OTS will perform maintenance on the campus firewall. This intermittent outage is necessary as OTS upgrades the campus data network to provide better security […]

The Towson University Web site will be unavailable 6-6:30 a.m. and 8:30-9 a.m., October 29 during the Office of Technology Services Sunday maintenance window. As a result, the university’s main Web site, departmental Web sites, student group Web sites and Daily Digest will be unavailable (any site with the URL http://wwwnew.towson.edu/SITENAME). Please note: any modifications […]

The university’s Exchange servers will be taken offline 7-9 a.m., October 15 during the Office of Technology Services Sunday maintenance window. As a result, all faculty, staff and student employee e-mail services will be unavailable. OTS will perform routine maintenance and install security updates. If you have questions, please contact the OTS Operations Center at […]

The university’s Gold server will be taken offline 10 a.m. to noon, October 8 during the Office of Technology Services Sunday maintenance window. As a result, all H: and O: drives, cross-departmental shares, Outlook archive files and Citrix profiles will be unavailable. OTS will perform firmware upgrades to increase the reliability of these services. If […]

The university’s TUWeb server will be taken offline 6 a.m. to noon, September 24 during the Office of Technology Services Sunday maintenance window. As a result, all faculty/staff personal Web pages will be unavailable (EX: http://pages.towson.edu/username). OTS will upgrade the server’s operating system and expand storage space. If you have questions, please contact the OTS […]

The university’s primary Web site and all departmental Web pages will be unavailable 7-8 a.m., September 10 during the Office of Technology Services Sunday maintenance window. OTS will expand disk storage. If you have questions, please contact the OTS Operations Center at 410-704-2438.