Archives: Maintenance

EXTENDED MAINTENANCE

Impact of the change on users:

Saturday, March 7: MicroStrategy services will be unavailable from 8:00 to 12:00 a.m.

Sunday, March 8: Websites hosted on associated servers will be unavailable from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The following websites will be intermittently unavailable during the maintenance period on Sunday.

• American Festival Pops OrchestraUniversity Catalog 2025-2026
• ARTS! by George
• Center for Location Science
• Costello College of Business IT Helpdesk: Admin Login
• Center for Cybersecurity Analytics and Automation
• Child Development Lab
• Communications and Networks Lab
• Cyberball
• Department of Psychology Mentoring Materials Repository
• Development in School Contexts
• Environmental Security Project
• Event Services
• George Mason University School of Business
• Global Education Office
• GMU NMR Center
• Housing Plans Website
• Information Security Conference 2024
• Laboratory for IT Entrepreneurship
• Lightning Ready
• Ling Lab
• Mason Cat Coalition
• Mason Email Login
• MNLP Lab
• Mobile Mason
• Northern Virginian Folklife Archive
• Off the Wall
• Personalized Learning in Applied Information Technology
• Psychology Department Syllabi
• School of Art Print Shop
• Spatial Econometrics & Geography

Reason for the change:

ITS is addressing a system security vulnerability and updating log-management tools.

ID # 770592

Impact of the change on users:

Public websites that run on the SiteMasonry Content Management System (CMS) will remain available to visitors. However, anyone who edits content in SiteMasonry—such as web managers, content editors, and points of contact—should log out before 4:00 p.m. because any edits made during the maintenance window may not be saved.

Reason for the change:

The SiteMasonry team is performing routine system maintenance. As part of this work, the current distributed content tool is being replaced with a new vendor‑supported content synchronization module to improve long‑term reliability. (ID # 769623)

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 # 768448)

Impact of the change on users:

mason.gmu.edu will be unavailable during the scheduled maintenance window. Users will not be able to access the site during this outage.

Reason for the change:

Information Technology Services (ITS) is applying routine security updates to address several Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). (ID # 767873)

Impact of the change on users:

BeyondTrust Remote Support will experience an outage during this maintenance window. Users may be unable to start or receive remote support sessions until the work is complete.

Reason for the change:

This maintenance applies important security fixes to keep the Remote Support service protected and operating reliably. No new features or enhancements are included.

ID # 766977