Email issue – Resolved

The problem affecting Mac Mail, Thunderbird and Gmail has been addressed and mail is functioning as expected. —— ITS is working on resolving a problem this morning that appears to be affecting users who use Mac Mail.  Other mail clients may also be affected including Gmail for users who use Gmail to connect to Wesleyan … Read more

ITS Maintenance – 3/12 UPDATE

Update: This morning’s maintenance was successful, however there was unexpected network slowness for approximately 20 minutes between 8:15 and 8:45 am.  VPN, OWA and other services may have been slow or were unresponsive to users during this time.  We are investigating why this disruption occurred, however all services are functioning normally.   On Saturday, March … Read more

Non-disruptive maintenance Jan 16

On Saturday morning, January 16, ITS will perform non-disruptive maintenance on the main switch infrastructure in the data center beginning at 7:00 am.  We have done this work successfully in the past and do not anticipate a problem.  We will notify the community in the event of an unexpected issue preferably by email as well … Read more

Overnight network maintenance – week of Jan 11

During the week of Jan 11 in the early morning hours, ITS will be doing preventive switch maintenance.  This is to update software on our switches in accordance with manufacturer recommendation to prevent a possible malfunction that could disrupt services. Wired and wireless network connectivity will be disrupted in segments of buildings for a period … Read more

Network Outage – Dec 22 AM follow-up

  IT resolved a major network issue that began in the early morning hours.  The disruption was such that all network traffic was not flowing.  This affected all internal and external connections to and from Wesleyan.  IT staff were on site early working on the issue.  All services were restored at approximately 9:15 AM. When … Read more

Rolling wireless interruption – Dec 28 early AM

On Monday, December 28, between 7:30 and 8:30 am, ITS will be upgrading software on the wireless access points campus-wide.  This will result in the devices needing to restart which will take no more than 5 minutes per access point. Please note this is NOT a downtime window as groups of access points restart in … Read more

System interruption – services back online

There was a major service interruption from approx 8:45 to 9:30 am this morning, 11/16.  ITS has narrowed down the equipment that caused the failure and is working with the vendor to determine why the system redundancy was also affected.   Services are now back online.

Password Reset deadline TODAY at 2:00PM

You must reset your password by today at 2:00 PM.  If you have not done so, please take a minute to change your password or you will be locked out of your account at 2:00PM. What makes for a good password? Passwords are integral to information security.  While we all know this, it is easy … Read more