Archives: Maintenance

Impact of the change on users:

The Atlas Ellucian, Imaging & Admissions Web Servers will be unavailable during the maintenance period while they reboot.

Reason for the change:

ITS is addressing vulnerabilities. (ID # 762714)

Impact of the change on users:

The wired and Wi-Fi networks in the following buildings will experience brief internet outages of approximately one second each during the maintenance period:

• Aquatic and Fitness Center
• Archive Building
• Carrow Hall
• Central Heating and Cooling Plant
• Childhood Development Center
• College Hall
• Concert Hall
• Eagle Bank Arena
• Enterprise Hall
• Exploratory Hall
• Facilities Management Building
• The Hub
• James Buchanan Hall
• King Hall
• Krasnow Institute
• Maintenance Building
• Music and Theater Building
• Northeast Sector Module
• Northeast Sector Module 2
• Nottoway Access
• Performing Arts Building
• Planetary Hall
• Rivanna Module
• Roberts House
• Satellite Dish, belonging to Capitol Connection
• Warehouse

Reason for the change:

ITS is testing switches.

(ID # 762502)

EXTENDED MAINTENANCE

Impact of the change on users:

There will be intermittent outages while Mason-managed Macs with macOS 14 upgrade to macOS 15.

Reason for the change:

ITS is proactively upgrading macOS 14 to macOS 15 (Sequoia) on Mason-managed Macs. (ID # 762699)

Impact of the change on users:

Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) login services may be interrupted for a few minutes as we perform failover but we are not expecting any significant outages

Reason for the change on users:

ITS is testing ADFS login failover for disaster recovery purposes. (ID # 762518)