Tag Archives | Service Outages

The following downtimes will occur April 9 during the Office of Technology Services’ Sunday maintenance window: NEW! ALL TU NETWORK SERVICES SPORADICALLY UNAVAILABLE, 6 A.M.-NOON Campus and Web services affected include: – Internet – Blackboard – E-mail – Peoplesoft – Tiger – Virtual Private Network (VPN) – Pylon – Remote Access Server (RAS) – Citrix […]

The following downtime will occur April 9 during the Office of Technology Services’ Sunday maintenance window: GOLD SERVER DOWN, 9-11 A.M. The following services will be unavailable as a result: – H: (Personal) Drives – O: (Departmental) Drives – Cross-Departmental Shares – Citrix Profiles OTS will attach new hardware to the GOLD server for additional […]

The following downtime will occur April 2 during the Office of Technology Services’ Sunday maintenance window: ALL TU NETWORK SERVICES SPORADICALLY UNAVAILABLE, 6 A.M.-NOON Campus and Web services affected include: – Internet – Blackboard – E-mail – Peoplesoft – Tiger – Virtual Private Network (VPN) – Pylon – Remote Access Server (RAS) – Citrix – […]

All Citrix services will be unavailable 8-10 a.m., March 26 during the Office of Technology Services’ Sunday maintenance window. OTS will perform a software upgrade causing both the full Citrix Desktop and all Citrix Published Applications to be down. If you have questions, please contact the OTS Operations Center at 410-704-2438.

To complete the final work on the Oracle database server currently hosting the Blackboard environment, we will need to extend the standard Thursday downtime (2:55 a.m. through 5 a.m.) usually used for full backup of the Blackboard system an additional three hours. This update is needed to maintain optimal performance on Towson University’s Blackboard environment. […]

The following downtimes will occur Sunday, March 19 during the Office of Technology Services’ maintenance window: NEW! ALL TU NETWORK SERVICES SPORADICALLY UNAVAILABLE, 8 A.M.-NOON Web services affected include: – Internet – Blackboard – E-mail – Peoplesoft – Tiger – Virtual Private Network (VPN) – Pylon – Remote Access Server (RAS) – Citrix This intermittent […]

An update needed for our Oracle database server currently hosting the Blackboard environment will require us to extend the standard Tuesday downtime (2:55 a.m. through 5 a.m.) usually used for full backup of the Blackboard system an additional three hours. This update is needed to maintain optimal performance on Towson University’s Blackboard environment. The date […]

Most major services will be unavailable 6 a.m.-noon, March 19 during the Office of Technology Services’ Sunday maintenance window. The downtime affects faculty, staff and students and the following services: – E-mail – PeopleSoft – Blackboard – Inside.towson.edu, Students.towson.edu (timesheets, campus directories) – Computer Science Students’ Interactive Shell – Computer Science Oracle Database – Alerts […]

The following downtime will occur March 5 during the Office of Technology Services’ Sunday maintenance window: ALL TU NETWORK SERVICES SPORADICALLY UNAVAILABLE, 6 a.m.-12 noon Web services affected include: – Internet – Blackboard – E-mail – Peoplesoft – Tiger – Virtual Private Network (VPN) – Pylon – Remote Access Server (RAS) – Citrix This intermittent […]

Exchange e-mail services will be unavailable, 9-10 a.m., February 26, during the Office of Technology Services’ Sunday maintenance window. Faculty, staff and student employees will not have access to e-mail during the outage. OTS will install security upates. If you have questions, please contact the OTS Operations Center at 410-704-2438.

Several network services will be unavailable, 8-10 a.m., February 19, during the Office of Technology Services’ Sunday maintenance window. They include: – All university Web pages hosted on the WWW1 server (main Web page and group Web pages) – Facilities Management Work Request Tracking (Maximo) – Auxiliary Services Real Time Ride Tracking System (CometTracker) – […]

TOA (all four nodes), SIS, HRS and FRS will be unavailable, 4 a.m.-6 p.m., February 12, during the Office of Technology Services’ Sunday maintenance window. In addition, some network logon problems and service conection problems may be possible during this time. The maintenance work is required to retire the last parts of the old network […]

The campus wireless network will be sporadically unavailable beginning on Tuesday, Jan. 24 and continuing through Friday, Jan. 27. These outages are necessary as we upgrade our wireless network to provide seamless connectivity for users as they move around campus, as well as added security. A schedule of the buildings affected will be listed the […]

The following downtimes will occur January 22 during the Office of Technology Services’ Sunday maintenance window: NEW! ALL TU NETWORK SERVICES SPORADICALLY UNAVAILABLE, 7-10 A.M. Web services affected include: – Internet – Blackboard – e-mail – Peoplesoft – Tiger – Virtual Private Network (VPN) – Pylon – Remote Access Server (RAS) – Citrix This intermittent […]

The campus’ RealAudio server will be offline, 8 a.m.-noon, Sunday, Jan. 22, during the Office of Technology Services’ Sunday maintenance window. OTS will upgrade the RealAudio server’s hardware for better stability and to facilitate growth. The downtime will affect all faculty who host Real Media on the OTS-operated Real server, as well as any listeners […]

The campus wireless network will be sporadically unavailable beginning on Tuesday, Jan. 24 and continuing through Friday, Jan. 27. These outages are necessary as we upgrade our wireless network to provide seamless connectivity for users as they move around campus, as well as added security. A schedule of the buildings affected will be listed the […]

The Web servers known as TUWEB, PAGES and WWWnew will be offline for routine maintenance, 8-10 a.m., Sunday, Jan. 15, during the Office of Technology Services’ Sunday maintenance window. As a result, all individual and departmental university Web pages will be unavailable, as well as all listserves accessed using the link, “lists.towson.edu.” If you have […]

Networked printing services will be unavailable, 10-10:30 a.m., Sunday, Jan. 8, during the Office of Technology Services’ Sunday maintenance window. OTS will upgrade service to new hardware, which will be used to host network printing services. If you have questions, please contact the OTS Operations Center at x4-2438.

The following university Web pages will be unavailable, 8-10 a.m., Sunday, Dec. 18, for routine maintenance during the Office of Technology Services’ Sunday maintenance window. – TUWEB/PAGES: All faculty/staff Web pages with a URL of http://pages.towson.edu/username – WWWNEW: All Web pages with a URL of http://wwwnew.towson.edu/department If you have questions, please contact the OTS Operations […]