Category Archives: Email

Exchange server reboot, Thur Dec 17, 10 a.m.-11 a.m.

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This is an announcement from Technology Services (TS). Please see details below:

Email: Exchange mailbox server reboot

Thursday, December 17, 2020 from 10 a.m.-11 a.m.

REASON FOR IMPACT: Some users are unable to send emails at this time. TS is going to reboot the server to resolve the issue. People may be disconnected briefly from email during this time.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

·       During the maintenance window end users may be briefly disconnected from our email system as the servers are rebooted

·       For more information on Technology Services’ Incident Communication Plan or to view a list of our Critical Systems and definitions, please visit our Service Announcements site.

For support questions please contact the TS Service Desk via phone at 253-879-8585.

 

Email: Intermittent System Issues beginning at 10:45a

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EMAIL: INTERMITTENT SYSTEM ISSUES
August 31 beginning at 10:45 a.m.

REASON FOR IMPACT: Technology Services is currently working to resolve an intermittent issue with our email servers. Currently some individuals are unable to access their email via Webmail or the Outlook client and receive a “Cannot connect to server” error message. Please note that this is not impacting all individuals so if you are not experiencing any issues with your email you may not see any. Technology Services is working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.

Campus Systems Unavailable Due to Scheduled Maintenance 05/21/2017 [completed]

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[updated 05/21/2017 9:30 a.m.] Our scheduled maintenance has been completed.

[original] Production server patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday, May 21st, from 3:00 a.m. until noon. During this time, all campus systems will be intermittently or entirely unavailable. Affected services include the university website, myPugetSound, PeopleSoft, Cascade, Moodle, campus file servers, and Exchange (email and calendar). An update will be posted once this maintenance is completed.

Technology Services schedules regular maintenance windows, generally on the second Sunday of every month, to ensure a secure, reliable computing environment. Thank you for your patience as we conduct this important work!

Campus Systems Unavailable Due to Scheduled Maintenance 03/26/2017 [Completed]

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[Update 03/26/2017 10:00 PM] All scheduled work has been completed successfully. All systems are operating at full performance again.

[Update 03/26/2017 1:38 PM] PeopleSoft is fully back up. All services are online at this time. We’re continuing to do some work in the background which may cause minor performance issues this afternoon. An update will be posted when that work is complete.

[Update 03/26/2017 1:08 PM] PeopleSoft is nearly back up. We have some work to do in the background that may cause some minor performance issues this afternoon, but all services will be available. The next update will come when PeopleSoft is fully back up.

[Update 03/26/2017 11:45 AM] We need to extend the maintenance window beyond noon as some processes are taking longer than expected. Right now PeopleSoft environments, including myPugetSound are offline. All other services are available. Another update will be posted upon completion or at 1:00 PM.

[Original] Production server patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday, March 26th, from 3:00 a.m. until noon. During this time, all campus systems will be intermittently or entirely unavailable. Affected services include the university website, myPugetSound, PeopleSoft, Cascade, Moodle, campus file servers, and Exchange (email and calendar). An update will be posted once this maintenance is completed.

Technology Services schedules regular maintenance windows, generally on the second Sunday of every month, to ensure a secure, reliable computing environment. Thank you for your patience as we conduct this important work!

Campus Systems Unavailable Due to Scheduled Maintenance 01/08/2017 [completed]

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[update 01/8/2017 11:15 a.m.] Our scheduled maintenance has been completed successfully.

[original] Production server patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday, January 8th, from 3:00 a.m. until noon. During this time, all campus systems will be intermittently or entirely unavailable. Affected services include the university website, myPugetSound, PeopleSoft, Cascade, Moodle, campus file servers, and Exchange (email and calendar). An update will be posted once this maintenance is completed.

Technology Services schedules regular maintenance windows, generally on the second Sunday of every month, to ensure a secure, reliable computing environment. Thank you for your patience as we conduct this important work!

Campus Systems Unavailable Due to Scheduled Maintenance 11/13/2016 [completed]

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[update 11/13/2016 10:00 a.m.] Our scheduled production server patch maintenance has been completed successfully.​​

[original] Production server patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday, November 13, from 3:00 a.m. until noon. During this time, all campus systems will be intermittently or entirely unavailable. Affected services include the university website, myPugetSound, PeopleSoft, Cascade, Moodle, campus file servers, and Exchange (email and calendar). An update will be posted once this maintenance is completed.

Technology Services schedules regular maintenance windows, generally on the second Sunday of every month, to ensure a secure, reliable computing environment. Thank you for your patience as we conduct this important work!

Email system security certificate replacement 10/28/2016 7:00 AM

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This Friday, 10/28/2016, at 7:00 AM we will be replacing the security certificates on our email infrastructure. We do not expect there will be any impact on end users. An update will be posted after the work has been completed.

If an issue is encountered, please contact the Technology Service Desk at 253.879.8585 or servicedesk@pugetsound.edu.

Email System Maintenance 10/16/2016 9-10 AM [completed]

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[update 10/16 10:00 AM] Maintenance on the email system has been completed successfully.

[original] This Sunday, 10/16/2016, from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM we will be making some changes to our email system that have the potential to create a short system outage.

If an issue is encountered, please contact the Technology Service Desk at 253.879.8585 or servicedesk@pugetsound.edu.

Email access issue 9/30/2016 [Resolved]

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[Updated 9/30/2016 1:30 pm] As of 12:30 pm today, we believe the issue to be resolved. Please contact the Technology Service Desk if you continue to experience difficulty accessing your email. Thank you for your patience.

[Original Post] Some members of the campus community have reported issues connecting to our email server from Outlook and Webmail. We are investigating this issue and apologize for the inconvenience.

Campus Systems Unavailable Due to Scheduled Maintenance 09/18/2016 [completed]

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[update 09/18/2016 10:00 a.m.] Our scheduled production server patch maintenance has been completed successfully.​​

[original] Production server patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday, September 18, from 3:00 a.m. until noon. During this time, all campus systems will be intermittently or entirely unavailable. Affected services include the university website, myPugetSound, PeopleSoft, Cascade, Moodle, campus file servers, and Exchange (email and calendar). An update will be posted once this maintenance is completed.

Technology Services schedules regular maintenance windows, generally on the second Sunday of every month, to ensure a secure, reliable computing environment. Thank you for your patience as we conduct this important work!

Campus Systems Unavailable Due to Scheduled Maintenance 07/10/2016 [completed]

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[update 07/10/2016 12:45 p.m.] The single sign on component of Cascade has been finished.

This concludes our planned patch maintenance and database migration for this weekend.

[update 07/10/2016 11:55 a.m.] We’re nearly complete with our work except for the single sign on component in Cascade is still outstanding. This will only affect users attempting to log into Cascade via the web. The other back-end processes in Cascade are verified operational.

Our database migration to the new storage array was successful and PeopleSoft is fully operational.

The rest of our production systems have been successfully patched.

An update will be made when the single sign on component has been fixed. This is expected to be resolved this afternoon.

[original] Production server patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday, July 10, from 3:00 a.m. until noon. During this time, all campus systems will be intermittently or entirely unavailable. Affected services include the university website, myPugetSound, PeopleSoft, Cascade, Moodle, campus file servers, and Exchange (email and calendar). An update will be posted once this maintenance is completed.

Technology Services schedules regular maintenance windows, generally on the second Sunday of every month, to ensure a secure, reliable computing environment. Thank you for your patience as we conduct this important work!

Campus Systems Unavailable Due to Scheduled Maintenance 06/05/2016 [complete]

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[Update 06/05/2016 12:08 p.m.] Our scheduled production server patch maintenance has been completed successfully.​​

[Original] Production server patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday, June 5, from 3:00 a.m. until noon During this time, all campus systems will be intermittently or entirely unavailable. Affected services include the university website, myPugetSound, PeopleSoft, Cascade, Moodle, campus file servers, and Exchange (email and calendar). An update will be posted once this maintenance is completed.

Technology Services schedules regular maintenance windows, generally on the second Sunday of every month, to ensure a secure, reliable computing environment. Thank you for your patience as we conduct this important work!