ITS System Announcements

We are experiencing sporadic problems with ePortfolio and are investigating the cause of it.

As of September 24th, a change will have been made to your EPortfolio. When you log in you will see (or may have already seen) a statement regarding Intellectual Property which you are asked to read and then indicate your acceptance. We are asking you to do this as part of a larger [...]

Several members of the Wesleyan Community have received a message entitled “FedEx Shipping Administration Updates”. Please ignore this message and delete it from your mailbox.

Wikis will be unavailable Tuesday Sept 16th from 7:30-8:00 AM as the software Confluence will be upgraded.

ITS experienced power problems overnight that affected some services between about 4AM and 8AM.
The affected services include:
Outlook Web Access
Blackberry Enterprise Server
Good Mobile Messaging
EMS
ReportExec
Checkbox
PFaids
The services have been restarted, and we have adjusted our power distribution to remove the vulnerability.

Due to a system upgrade, there will be a brief interruption to internet access on Sunday (9/7/2008) between 7 and 7:30AM
Thank you.
ITS

For an explanation regarding the network outage on Tuesday, 9/2/2008, please go to:
http://itsinfo.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2008/09/03/network-outage-on-922008/

Here is what we know so far about the network outage on Tuesday, 9/2/2008:
Around 8:30 AM, ITS staff began receiving email notifications indicating that there was unusually high activity on electronic portfolio that was stressing our databases. One of the databases was restarted at around 8:40 AM to handle this issue, everything returned back to [...]

Continuing work on the network issues of today may cause brief network interruptions today shortly after 5 PM.

The Cyrus mail server is now operational. Users may notice a delay in mail delivery of up to 2 hours as all queued mail is delivered.
Thank you