Information Systems and Technology (IST), along with our partners in the Office of the Registrar and Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs (GSPA), is excited to announce that Kuali has been selected to provide an academic calendar and curriculum management solution for the campus. Visit the project website to learn more.
What is happening? Quest will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance.
When is this happening?
What is the impact? During these times, Quest will be down and unavailable.
What is happening? Owl Labs, the maker of the Meeting Owl Pro, announced several security vulnerabilities in their products.
What is the impact? Meeting Owl Pro's running a software version earlier than 5.4.1.4 have critical security vulnerabilities.
What do users need to do? `
What is happening? Remaining on-premises shared and generic Connect accounts (excluding those in Computer Science) will be migrated to Microsoft 365 by the end of July 2022.
What do I need to do?
What is happening? On Thursday, June 2, Atlassian identified a critical security vulnerability for on-premises Confluence Servers and Confluence Data Centre. In order to protect Waterloo's instance of this service from exploitation, the IST security team has implemented a firewall block.
What is happening? Microsoft is phasing out Internet Explorer (IE) 11.
When is this happening? This work will begin Wednesday, June 15, 2022.
What do Internet Explorer users need to do? These users should switch to another supported Windows browser such as Microsoft Edge, Chrome, or Firefox before June 15, 2022.
Resolved: As a result of a hardware failure, this morning wireless connectivity and services within our data centre were interrupted.
The failed hardware has been restored and all additional services that were affected by the outage have been restored.
While most services were restored before noon, some email services were not restored until 3:00 pm. Users may receive a high volume of emails as queued emails are delivered
What is happening? We will be testing the University’s campus-wide emergency communication system.
When is this happening? Tuesday, May 17 at 2:00 p.m.
What is the impact? Emergency communication channels being tested include:
A message from the Mass Email Management project sponsors
Resolved: The cause of this issue has been identified as a configuration error, during scheduled maintenance, to replace a database server, which resulted in the database going offline at a later time. The root cause of the configuration error has been corrected. IST has made some interim improvements such that the system will fail safe in the event of a future database outage.