The following two significant changes have been scheduled as part of the Core Network Update project.
Resources that currently reside on an aging load balancer will be migrated to new equipment.
The Grouper service is currently down and unavailable. IST is investigating the cause of the issue and additional information will be shared once available.
Quest will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance.
The WatIAM system was taken offline at approximately 4:25 p.m. yesterday (February 7) due to a data storage issue. WatIAM is back online as of approximately 9:00 a.m. this morning.
Information Systems & Technology (IST) will begin work this year to refresh the University’s core network equipment. Current network technology is nearing end-of-life, providing an opportune time to review the current environment and institute changes that will improve performance and allow for the optimization of the core network components as future demand requires.
We will be testing the University’s campus-wide emergency communication system around 1:30 p.m. on February 7.
New version of Microsoft Teams to be enabled February 20, 2024. Microsoft is retiring the classic version of Teams on March 31, 2024.
WatIAM (Sailpoint IdentityIQ) is being upgraded from version 8.1 to version 8.2.
The initiatives profiled in our 2023 Annual Report represent important work that IST has undertaken on behalf of the campus community to strengthen our campus cybersecurity defences, enrich the educational technologies used for teaching and learning, and to modernize information systems used to serve our campus community.