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VPN has been offline since approximately 3 PM. We are currently working on the problem and will have it resolved as soon as possible.

Moodle was unavailable Thursday, Sep 9, for about half an hour starting around 7:30 PM. We apologize for the outage. We know that you rely on this system. We have fail-safe mechanisms in place, but this was a case of human oversight rather than system or application failure. We fully understand the cause of the … Read more

A large number of PC users experienced tremendous slowdowns and problems today. The ITS department worked hard to address as many as we could. After much research, we learned that our anti-virus vendor, ESET, distributed virus definition updates to its customers that caused high CPU usage on PCs. Once the repaired updates came down to … Read more

The main issue which caused today’s telephone outage has been resolved. However, as we work through lingering problems individuals may experience brief interruptions in their telephone service. We apologize for this inconvenience. If you have persistent telephone or voicemail issues, please contact Pat Donohue with WesTel at pdonohue@wesleyan.edu or x2022. Steve Machuga

The phone system is now operational. The technicians are doing some fine tuning to adjust some display issues. There may be a brief interruption again prior to 1:00 PM while the technicians complete this work. If you continue to have trouble after 1:30 PM, please call WesTel at 685-2022.

Some phone service has been restored. The replacement power supply for the phone system is expected to arrive at 11 AM. Full phone service will be back online shortly thereafter.

Beginning at 4:30 pm on Monday, August 23, there were power outages that affected various parts of the campus. These outages were more prevalent than previously understood. While the data center remained online and no services were interrupted, some areas may have experienced outages to switches which would have interrupted communication.

Dragon will be offline for system maintenance this evening, Friday, August 20, from 10PM – 6AM. This is the only system affected by this maintenance. Files stored on Dragon will not be available during this time. Thank you.

The maintenance on August 14 went quite a bit beyond the scheduled window. While ITS planned for extra time and performed preparatory steps, there were issues that were beyond our control. We brought services back online as quickly as we were able. We know an extended interruption is inconvenient and appreciate your patience and understanding.

Reminder: Tomorrow, August 14, from 9AM to Noon, there will be maintenance on IT systems. Services including WFS, EPortfolio, Blackboard, and Wesfiles will be offline during this maintenance. Thank you, Karen Warren