Information Technology Services

Brief Network Outages on Fairfax Campus in Select Buildings

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)

Upgrade macOS 14 to macOS 26 (Tahoe) on Mason-managed Macs

EXTENDED MAINTENANCE

Impact of the change on users:

There will be intermittent outages while Mason-managed Macs with macOS 14 upgrade to macOS 26 (Tahoe).

Reason for the change:

ITS is proactively upgrading macOS 14 to macOS 26 (Tahoe) on Mason-managed Macs. (ID # 762704)

Upgrade macOS 14 to macOS 15 (Sequoia) on Mason-managed Macs

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)

Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Azure Failover Login

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)

Atlas Ellucian, Imaging & Admissions Web Server Maintenance

Impact of the change on users:

The Admissions server will be unavailable during the maintenance period while it reboots.

Reason for the change:

ITS is applying DUO updates needed to resolve issues. (ID # 756723)