I am pleased to announce that Dr. Sherri Braxton-Lieber, Special Assistant to the Provost and Director of Course Redesign at Bowie State University (BSU), has accepted UMBC’s Director of...
April 11, 2014
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12:58 PM
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Friday, April 11 from 6:30 to 7:00 am
On Friday, April 11th at 6:30 am, UMBC DoIT will be performing maintenance on the myUMBC network. This maintenance should take no longer than 30 minutes, but during this time myUMBC will be...
April 10, 2014
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3:21 PM
Never give out your username or password
DoIT continues to receive reports of faculty and staff receiving that is part of a targeted "phishing" attack to steal your username and password information or infect your computer. One...
April 10, 2014
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12:48 AM
Issue potentially affects "https" web sites using Open SSL
A major security vulnerability named Heartbleed was disclosed Monday night. The vulnerability affects a large portion of websites on the Internet, and here at UMBC, that use the "https:" protocol...
April 9, 2014
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7:40 PM
Please note that the Classroom and Event scheduling system known as R25 will be down from 4-15-2014 through 4-17-2014. The downtime is needed to complete phase 1 of 2 for migrating the current...
April 9, 2014
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2:14 PM
At 10pm tonight, Tuesday April 8th, there will be a 45min outage of the Cyrus mail system. This outage is needed to patch a critical security vulnerability which has just been discovered. In...
April 8, 2014
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4:33 PM
MyDocuments No Longer Available In The Labs
After Thursday, May 22, the My Documents folder on lab computers will be disabled for storing files. Instead, DoIT recommends using Box (box.umbc.edu) for storing all of your files. Combined with...
April 4, 2014
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5:27 PM
Deadline: May 23, 2014
Update: Given recent IT security threats generally, DoIT has decided to force the password change to May 23, 2014, the day after Undergraduate Commencement. Thank you in advance for your patience...
April 2, 2014
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10:57 PM
As most of you know RT has been experiencing some performance issues which have been hard to diagnose. DoIT has increased the computing power several times since the upgrade in December for the...
March 31, 2014
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8:01 PM
The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 3/28 to 1 am Saturday 3/29. This down time is during the regularly scheduled maintenance window and is necessary for DoIT staff to...
March 27, 2014
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8:03 PM