Maintenance Archives

Impact of the change on users: Hosted sites on Admissions servers will be intermittently unavailable during the maintenance period. Reason for the change: ITS is addressing Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) (ID # 544894)

Impact of the change on users: Pharos/Canon mobile printing, EHS Training (ehassistant.gmu.edu), and Card Access Security Office (CASO) services may be unavailable during the maintenance period. Reason for the change: ITS is applying Microsoft security updates. (ID # 544872)

Impact of the change on users: The following services and websites will be briefly unavailable during the maintenance period: Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning (oiep.gmu.edu) Office of Sponsored Programs (randed.gmu.edu) Office of Strategic Budgeting & Planning (budget.gmu.edu) Research Website (www2.gmu.edu/research) Student Evaluations of Teaching Archive (crserating.gmu.edu) Travel Request (travel.gmu.edu) Reason for the change: ITS…

Impact of the change on users: MicroStrategy, Registrar Destiny One Registration, and 25Live will be briefly unavailable during the maintenance window. Reason for the change: ITS is applying Microsoft security updates. (ID #  544874)

Impact of the change on users: The Wi-Fi will be intermittently unavailable in the Horizon Building and the Vernon Smith Building, on the plaza level and the first floor. Reason for the change: ITS is upgrading the hardware. (ID # 541728)

Impact of the change on users: The System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and Mason-Managed Windows Computers’ Software Center will be briefly unavailable during maintenance. Reason for the change: ITS is upgrading SCCM. (ID # 544654)

Impact of the change on users: Software Center apps will be unavailable for installation and imaging will be unavailable during the maintenance period. Reason for the change: ITS is upgrading the System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) application. (ID # 540383)

Impact of the change on users: Applications and hosted site on the Atlas Ellucian, Imaging, Zax Evisions servers will be unavailable during the maintenance period. Reason for the change: ITS is addressing Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE). (ID # 538979)

EXTENDED MAINTENANCE Impact of the change on users: All equipment that is provisioned for power redundancy, with connections to both A-side and B-side power or singular power feeds, should not experience a service interruption as the maintenance is a minor service without the requirement of placing the units in by-pass mode. As a precaution, maintenance…

Impact of the change on users: ITS has completed migrating all MESA M: Drive mydata and shared drives to Microsoft 365 (M365). The MESA system will be fully decommissioned on Wednesday, November 6. All original data on MESA is now read-only and will be removed during the decommissioning process and users will no longer have access…

EXTENDED MAINTENANCE Impact of the change on users: Only one IPAM (Executive, DNS, DHCP) server will be upgraded at a time. Production IPAM servers will be upgraded evenings, early mornings, or weekends to minimize any possible impact. Our DNS servers have redundancy. * Properly configured DNS clients with multiple DNS servers defined should continue to operate…

EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE Impact of the change on users: Banner and Patriot Web will be unavailable during the maintenance period. Reason for the change: ITS is adding hardware to improve student class registration. (ID # 541603)

Impact of the change on users: Admissions & Transcript Intake Servers will be unavailable during the maintenance period. Reason for the change: ITS is addressing Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) (ID # 540880)

From Tuesday, October 29, 5 a.m. to Friday, November 1, 10 p.m., cable television will be intermittently unavailable in select buildings on the Fairfax Campus. The outage is necessary to accommodate maintenance to repair storm drains and requires rerouting cables. Impact on users: During the maintenance period, cable TV will be intermittently unavailable on the Fairfax…

EXTENDED MAINTENANCE Impact of the change on users: Jamf Pro will be unavailable during the maintenance window. Reason for the change: The vendor is applying security patches to Jamf Pro. (ID # 538558)