Category Archives: Moodle/Mahara

[Completed] Quarterly Production Patch Maintenance 10th June 2012, from 3:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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The Quarterly Production Patch Maintenance was completed at 4:20 pm. The next production patch maintenance will be a monthly and is tentatively scheduled for the 15th of July 2012.

The quarterly production patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday the 10th of June 2012, from 3:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Most services, may be intermittently or entirely unavailable, including:

  • Email
  • Service pack 3 upgrade to the Exchange 2007 environment
  • VMware upgrade to ESXi5
  • Personal and departmental file shares (on Alexandria and Merlin2)
  • Database applications: Cascade, FAMIS, Millennium, and Banner
  • Web services such as www.pugetsound.edu, cs.pugetsound.edu, and Moodle
  • vDesk
  • Print Services

An update will be posted once Server Maintenance has been completed.

Patch Server Maintenance May 2012

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No Patch Maintenance scheduled for the month of May, do to student Study period and Finals week. The next scheduled Patch Maintenance Window will be in June 2012. There will be a Quarterly Server Patch Maintenance in the Month of June. The June Patching will be for Pre-production servers on the 7th of June 2012, from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., and Production servers Patch Maintenance will be on the 10th of June 2012 from 3 a.m. to 4 p.m.

[Completed] Production Monthly Patch Maintenance Sunday the 8th of April 2012, from 3:00 am to 12:00 pm

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[Completed] The Monthly Patch Maintenance was completed at 11:10 a.m. All servers and services taken down for this maintenance period are up and back online. A notification of the next scheduled maintenance will be posted.

The monthly patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday the 8th of April 2012, from 3:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Most services, may be intermittently or entirely unavailable, including:

  • Email
  • Personal and departmental file shares (on Alexandria and Merlin2)
  • Database applications: Cascade, FAMIS, Millennium, and Banner
  • Web services such as www.pugetsound.edu, cs.pugetsound.edu, and Moodle
  • vDesk
  • Print Services

An update will be posted once Server Maintenance has been completed.

[Resolved] Moodle Unavailable 03/07/2012

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[Updated 03/07/2012 4:28 p.m.] Moodle is fully functional again. Some users may have lost data if they posted files or other content in Moodle between 11:00 p.m. on March 6 and 1:00 p.m. on March 7. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you again for your patience and understanding.

Moodle has been unavailable since shortly before 1:00 p.m. We are working to restore service as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience and understanding!

[Completed] Production Quarterly Patch Maintenance Window, 11th March 2012, 3:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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[Completed] The Production Patch Maintenance was completed at 10:45 am. The next production patch maintenance window is scheduled for Sunday the 15th of April, 2012.

The monthly patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday the 11th of March 2012, from 3:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Some services may be intermittently or entirely unavailable, including:

  • Email
  • Personal and departmental file shares (on Alexandria and Merlin2)
  • Web services such as www.pugetsound.edu, cs.pugetsound.edu, and Moodle
  • vDesk

Database applications: Cascade, FAMIS, Millennium, and Banner should not be affected. A followup will be posted upon completion of this scheduled patch maintenance window.

[COMPLETED] Production Monthly Patch Maintenance Sunday the 12th of February 2012, from 3:00 am to 12:00 pm

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Production patch maintenance for Sunday, February 12th, 2012 has completed as of 11:00 AM PST.

The monthly patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday the 12th of February 2012, from 3:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Most services, may be intermittently or entirely unavailable, including:

  • Email
  • Personal and departmental file shares (on Alexandria and Merlin2)
  • Database applications: Cascade, FAMIS, Millennium, and Banner
  • Web services such as www.pugetsound.edu, cs.pugetsound.edu, and Moodle
  • vDesk
  • Print Services

An update will be posted once Server Maintenance has been completed.

Production Monthly Patch Maintenance Sunday 15th January 2012, from 6:00 am to 12:00 pm

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[Updated 1/15/12, 11:25 am] The Monthly patch maintenance was completed at 11:22 AM, and all systems are back online. The next production patch window is scheduled for Sunday, February 12th, and will be a monthly patch.

The monthly patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday the 15th of January 2012, from 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Most services, may be intermittently or entirely unavailable, including:

  • Email
  • Personal and departmental file shares (on Alexandria and Merlin2)
  • Database applications: Cascade, FAMIS, Millennium, and Banner
  • Web services such as www.pugetsound.edu, cs.pugetsound.edu, and Moodle
  • Print Services

Vdesk will not be affected by this outage. An update will be posted once Server Maintenance has been completed.

[Completed] Monthly Patch Maintenance Scheduled for the 27th of November 2011, from 8 am to 12 pm

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[Completed] The monthly patch maintenance has been completed at 10:25 am. There will not be a scheduled Monthly Patch Maintenance for the month of December. The next scheduled patch maintenance window will be for January 2012.

The monthly patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday the 27th of November 2011, from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Some services may be intermittently or entirely unavailable, including:

  • Email
  • Personal and departmental file shares (on Alexandria and Merlin2)
  • Web services such as www.pugetsound.edu, cs.pugetsound.edu, and Moodle
  • vDesk

A followup will be posted upon completion of this scheduled patch maintenance window.

[Completed] Production Patch Maintenance 09/25/2011

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[Updated 9/25/11, 12:02 PM] The quarterly patch maintenance was completed at 11:55 AM, and all systems are back online. The next production patch window is scheduled for Sunday, October 30, and will be a monthly patch.

The quarterly patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday the 25th of September 2011, from 4:00 AM to 12:00 PM. All services may be intermittently or entirely unavailable, including:

  • Email
  • Personal and departmental file shares (on Alexandria and Merlin2)
  • Database applications: Cascade, FAMIS, Millennium, and Banner
  • Web services such as www.pugetsound.edu, cs.pugetsound.edu, and Moodle
  • Print Services
  • vDesk

[Resolved] Moodle Intermittently Unavailable 9/14/11

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[Update 6:15 AM 9/15/2011] Moodle service is now restored.

[Update 1:32 AM] Moodle is unavailable as of 11:30 this evening. We are currently working on the problem, and we will have service restored by the start of classes today.

[Update 4:45 PM] Moodle will be unavailable from 7:15 to 7:30 tonight so maintenance can be performed to address the issues experienced today. We hope to see service restored and stabilized once that is done. Thank you again for your patience.

The Moodle learning management system is experiencing intermittent service disruptions at this time. We are working as quickly as possible to stabilize the availability of this service. We appreciate your patience.