Blackboard will be unavailable between 2-4 am on Thursday, August 16th due to system maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Office of Information Technology will be performing routine systems maintenance which includes but is not limited to rebooting Windows servers as deemed necessary, installing critical patches and other health checks on Thursday, 08/16/2012 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window.  In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When: 3:00 AM to 6:00 AM
Affected services: SharePoint
Affected systems: SharePoint
Description of maintenance: The VHDs of the SharePoint hosts will be aligned to increase performance of the systems
User impact: SharePoint will be unavailable for a short period of time during the window

When: 3:00 AM – 4:00 AM
Affected Services: DNS, DHCP, Domain services on Davie campus
Affected Systems: hvdav01, davdcfau01, davdcirm01, dhcpdav1, dnsdav1, ldapdav1
Description of Maintenance: The RAID controller firmware on HVDAV01 will be updated to the latest version. This update will require a reboot of the system, all VMs running on the host will be placed into a saved state during the reboot (davdcfau01, davdcirm01, dhcpdav1, dnsdav1, ldapdav1)
User impact: dhcp and dns services will be unavailable for a short period of time during the window.

Network: networking maintenance completed

The scheduled network switch upgrade in building 22 is complete.