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Academic Computing Help Desk closed Monday January 16th, 2012 — by May, Erik — last modified Jan 15, 2012 12:45 PM: University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh will be closed, normal business hours resume the next day.
ACUG report recommends migrating email and calendar system to Google Apps — by May, Erik — last modified Mar 22, 2012 09:56 AM: The report states that Google Apps will provide our students, faculty and staff with the best email, calendar and web collaboration tools available.
Additional hours of operation at Academic Computing's Help Desk — by May, Erik — last modified Aug 23, 2012 11:44 AM: Additional days and extended hours will be offered during the Labor Day weekend and the first week of the Fall semester.
News — by kimadmin — last modified Jun 17, 2011 12:24 PM: Site News
Apple releases security patch against JAVA exploit — by May, Erik — last modified Mar 28, 2013 11:41 AM: Recently Apple released a security patch to protect users against an actively used JAVA exploit.
Brief Internet outage on campus on Monday 01-21-13 — by May, Erik — last modified Jan 19, 2013 11:26 AM: There will be a brief Internet outage on campus on Monday, January 21, at 7:00 AM.
Campus Firewall Security Modifications - Halsey Science Building — by May, Erik — last modified Apr 24, 2012 10:45 AM: Monday morning, April 24, between 7:00 and 7:30
Campus Firewall Security Modifications - Harrington Hall — by May, Erik — last modified Apr 11, 2012 02:31 PM: Thursday morning, April 12, between 7:00 and 7:30
Campus Firewall Security Modifications - Radford and Swart Hall — by May, Erik — last modified Apr 13, 2012 02:44 PM: Monday morning, April 16, between 7:00 and 7:30
Change to network security may affect Remote Desktop Users — by May, Erik — last modified Mar 28, 2013 11:29 AM: In response to a known security threat, the campus networking staff have blocked off-campus access to Windows workstations running Remote Desktop.
Coming soon: new gmail compose window — by May, Erik — last modified Nov 06, 2012 08:41 AM: Google's release calendar has it scheduled to roll out Nov 13.
Computer Login Job Accounts will expire at the end of 2012 — by May, Erik — last modified Dec 19, 2012 10:37 AM: Job accounts, whose assigned supervisors did not request an extension, will be disabled at the end of this year
D2L (Desire 2 Learn) was Down Briefly — by May, Erik — last modified Mar 01, 2012 12:29 PM: Madison DoIT Center reported that D2L was offline briefly but is back online now.
D2L down August 17-18 — by Bannenberg, Liz J. — last modified Aug 17, 2011 01:24 PM: D2L will be down for maintenance on Wednesday August 17th at 10:00 PM to August 18th at 10:00 AM.
D2L, HRS, WISDM, MyUW is back up and running — by May, Erik — last modified Jun 07, 2012 12:11 PM: Services were restored at 11:58 AM
D2L Outage and Upgrade Information — by May, Erik — last modified May 22, 2012 07:59 AM: This is a reminder that D2L will be unavailable from 10:00 PM on June 28th to 10:00 AM on June 29th. During this time, D2L will be upgraded to the most recent version (v.10).
D2L Outage Friday (6/13/2012) 9:00 - 9:30 PM — by May, Erik — last modified Jul 13, 2012 08:53 AM: D2L will be down from 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM on Friday, July 13th. The UW System D2L Utility will be working with external vendors to investigate the cause of a partial infrastructure failure that occurred last weekend
D2L Outage: January 11-12 — by May, Erik — last modified Jan 04, 2012 04:15 PM: There will be a scheduled D2L outage from January 11th at 10:00 PM, until January 12th at 10:00 AM.
D2L, HRS, WISDM, MyUW is down — by May, Erik — last modified Jun 07, 2012 12:09 PM: Madison reports that D2L services are currently off-line. There is no esimate at this time when services will return. This News Item will be updated as soon as more information is available.
D2L Upgrade Information — by May, Erik — last modified Jun 14, 2012 11:48 AM: This is a reminder that D2L will be unavailable from 10:00 PM on June 28th to 10:00 AM on June 29th. During this time, D2L will be upgraded to the most recent version (v.10).
Dempsey Hall 2nd Floor Networking Interrupted 11/21/12 — by May, Erik — last modified Nov 21, 2012 09:36 AM: Maintenance was compeleted for both Dempsey Hall 2nd floor and Halsey floors 3rd to 6th yesterday evening after regular business hours.
Desire 2 Learn (D2L) - Brief Outage this morning Oct. 26, 2012 *Updated* — by May, Erik — last modified Oct 26, 2012 11:40 AM: D2L was down this morning from 8:48 AM to 9:25 AM.
Desire 2 Learn (D2L) Performance Issues — by May, Erik — last modified Sep 06, 2012 03:27 PM: Madison DoIT Help Desk has reported state wide issues with performance (white screens and slow openning screen).
Desire 2 Learn (D2L) Upgrade Complete — by May, Erik — last modified Jul 06, 2012 10:41 AM: The upgrade to Desire 2 Learn Version 10 is complete. Please feel free to login to D2L and explore the new features and interface.
Extended Help Desk Hours for the Start of the Spring Semester — by May, Erik — last modified Jan 27, 2012 03:15 PM: The Academic Computing Help Desk will be open until 6 PM Monday-Thursday during the first week of the semester.
FootPrints - The New Help Desk Tracking System — by May, Erik — last modified Mar 29, 2013 08:34 AM: FootPrints has gone live today March 28, 2013
Go Google — by Knaapen, Laura J — last modified Jun 06, 2012 03:25 PM: UW Oshkosh will be switching from its Sun email/calendar system to Google-based services this summer.
Google Apps (TitanApps) Will No Longer Support Internet Explorer 8 — by May, Erik — last modified Jan 03, 2013 09:55 AM: Support ends January 15th
Google Drive Experienced a Brief Interruption — by May, Erik — last modified Sep 13, 2012 03:46 PM: Users reported message stating that Google Drive was disabled by the Domain Administrator.
Help Desk Extended Hours — by May, Erik — last modified Jan 22, 2013 08:58 AM: Additional hours offered for the first week of 2013 Spring semester.
Internet outage this Sunday (Mar. 17, 2013) Update: Cancelled — by May, Erik — last modified Mar 15, 2013 01:18 PM: Service will be interrupted between 8 AM and 11 AM.
Issue discovered syncing TitanApps to Mesmerize phone (a.k.a. Samsung Galaxy S) — by May, Erik — last modified Mar 28, 2013 11:40 AM: When attempting to add a Titan Apps account to a Mesmerize phone, an error occurs where an invalid email account address is recorded.
Lab Seating Availability — by Bannenberg, Liz J. — last modified Apr 04, 2012 10:11 AM: Tired of walking into full computer labs?
Maintenance web-proxies 01-20-13 — by May, Erik — last modified Jan 19, 2013 11:24 AM: Maintenance will begin at 8am and should be back online by 9am
MIO Shutdown & Migration — by May, Erik — last modified Jul 31, 2012 12:03 PM: Starting at 6pm on Friday August 3rd, MIO will shutting down all services. We plan to have the migration done by 5pm on Saturday August 4th.
Network Interruption in Polk Library — by May, Erik — last modified Jun 19, 2012 10:07 AM: There was a brief interruption to network access this morning. There will be another brief interruption at the end of the day today.
New Help Desk Ticketing System Purchase Approved — by May, Erik — last modified Mar 15, 2012 08:35 AM: BMC's Numara Footprints Help Desk Management System has been chosen to replace the Magic ServiceDesk Help Desk ticketing system.
Old Oracle Accounts Being Disabled — by May, Erik — last modified Mar 28, 2013 11:33 AM: Only affects those who use a client installed on the computer.
Oshkosh Public Library Website Blocked — by May, Erik — last modified Mar 05, 2012 10:47 AM: Over this past weekend we were receiving numerous alerts that the Oshkosh Public Library website was being blocked by the web proxy. The block was confirmed as legitimate.
PeopleSoft Development Environment Down 12/18/12 UPDATED — by May, Erik — last modified Dec 18, 2012 08:18 AM
PeopleSoft Production Environment Outage — by May, Erik — last modified Jun 19, 2012 08:04 AM: The PeopleSoft Production environment, which is accessed thru TitanAdmin and TitanWeb, will be down this weekend from 2:00 am Satruday morning thru 7:00 am Monday morning. The database/batch server for it is being upgraded.
Possible Plone Website Interruption Nov. 6, 2012 — by May, Erik — last modified Oct 31, 2012 07:59 AM: Plone servers will be restarted in the morning to apply a patch.
S and U Drive Access has been restored. — by May, Erik — last modified Mar 28, 2012 02:57 PM
S and U Drive Access is Off-Line — by May, Erik — last modified Mar 28, 2012 02:00 PM: We are experiencing a temporary outage for both the S (Shared) and U drives. Although there is reports of some who still can access the U Drive. Our staff are currently investigating the cause and will restore this service as quickly as possible.
S and U drive access issues has returned — by May, Erik — last modified Mar 28, 2012 04:32 PM: Also, in some cases, logging on to the computer itself is failing or taking 5 to 10 minutes to complete. Our staff is continuing to investigate and resolve these issues. Thank you for your patience and please understand that this is our top concern at this time.
Sage Hall Wireless Updates — by May, Erik — last modified Jan 24, 2012 10:14 AM: Updates have been aplied to the access points system in Sage Hall.
SPAM E-MAIL BEING CIRCULATED ON CAMPUS 4-27-11 — by Bannenberg, Liz J. — last modified Jun 17, 2011 12:26 PM
Switching Plone logins to NetID — by May, Erik — last modified Mar 28, 2013 11:33 AM: Over the next two weeks we will be switching Plone site logins to NetID (see http://www.uwosh.edu/acs/services/account-services/netid-account).
The Oshkosh Public Library's website is no longer being blocked. — by May, Erik — last modified Mar 15, 2012 08:23 AM: The issue has been resolved.
The S Drive (Shared) will be off-line Tuesday March 27th. — by May, Erik — last modified Mar 27, 2012 08:48 AM: Outage will be for about 10 minutes sometime after 4:30 PM
Time Table for NetID Migration — by May, Erik — last modified Jun 13, 2012 08:45 AM: As part of the move of email and calendar to Titan Apps, any campus services which currently use your email username and password will be changing to use the UW Oshkosh NetID. NetID is already being used for logging in to the Windows and Mac OS 10.7 desktop and laptop computers on campus.
Titan Apps is currently experiencing limited connectivity issues. 12-10-12 — by May, Erik — last modified Dec 10, 2012 11:18 AM: Email access is sporadic at this time. Google is currently working on the issue.
Titan Mail Servers to be shut down Dec. 3, 2012 — by May, Erik — last modified Nov 27, 2012 08:27 AM: This affects Titan Mail, not Titan Apps. The use of Titan Mail was discontinued before the start of the current semester.
Titan Web and Admin Back Online — by May, Erik — last modified Feb 10, 2012 07:59 AM: Repairs have been completed and services are restored.
UPDATED: Titan Web and Admin Services are Unavailable — by May, Erik — last modified Feb 09, 2012 03:58 PM: The Titan Web server experienced a hardware failure yesterday evening (Feburary 8th, 2012) at approximately 5:45 PM. IT employees are working on the problem and hope to have the system back up and running 8:00 PM or later this evening.
Titan Web and Admin Unavailable This Weekend 01/05/13 — by May, Erik — last modified Jan 19, 2013 11:26 AM: Titan Web and Titan Admin will be down this weekend for maintenance.
Titan Web and Titan Admin Outage Saturday September 29 — by May, Erik — last modified Sep 28, 2012 11:33 AM: Titan Web and Titan Admin will be down for maintenance this Saturday (9/29) from 2am until 10pm.
Titan Web and Titan Admin systems will be offline the weekend of Feb. 17, 2012 — by May, Erik — last modified Feb 13, 2012 11:34 AM: The Titan Web and Titan Admin systems will be offline this Friday, Feb. 17 from 2:00 AM through Sunday evening for maintenance.
Titan Web down this morning Oct. 29, 2012 - UPDATED — by May, Erik — last modified Oct 29, 2012 01:17 PM: Titan Web login page reporting that the application server is down.
Titan Web (PeopleSoft) Unavailable this Morning 11-30-2012 UPDATED — by May, Erik — last modified Nov 30, 2012 12:20 PM: Services are unavailable this morning, IT staff are working on resolving this issue. Until resolved, password resets can not be completed.
Titan Web was down for updates this weekend — by May, Erik — last modified Feb 13, 2012 09:13 AM: Titan Web was unavailable from 5:00 PM Friday February 10 to Sunday 7:00 AM for scheduled updates. Student Accounts extended the tuition payment deadline through today, Monday, February 13.
TitanApps, NetID and TitanWeb Changes — by May, Erik — last modified Mar 28, 2013 12:06 PM: We’re about halfway through migrating all students from TitanMail (Sun) to TitanApps (Google). We are on target to complete student accounts by July 12. Then July 16 we will start a three week process to migrate the remaining 80% of employee accounts. Expand this news item for account guidelines.
TitanFiles moved to using the NetID Login — by May, Erik — last modified Jun 20, 2012 08:05 AM: In a little over one week the same thing will be happening to D2L, WISDM, HRS/MyUWSystem
U Drive Is Unavailable 11-16-12 UPDATED — by May, Erik — last modified Nov 16, 2012 03:50 PM: U Drive Availability was interrupted about 1 this afternoon.
UW Oshkosh Cable TV Network Outage Sept. 18 — by May, Erik — last modified Sep 14, 2012 09:22 AM: There will be a Time Warner Cable System outage September 18th at noon.
UW-Oshkosh Plone Web Sites Down Briefly — by May, Erik — last modified Jul 06, 2012 02:27 PM: Plone Web Services were unavailable for approximately 15 minutes this afternoon. Server support staff was able to restore service.
VPN Upgrade — by May, Erik — last modified Mar 28, 2013 11:54 AM: The VPN concentrator for the campus was upgraded on March 2, 2013.
Websense Proxy - Down for Maintenance on July 20, 2012 — by May, Erik — last modified Jul 20, 2012 09:32 AM: Maintenance will begin on 7/20/12 at 4:45 and should be completed by 5:15pm.
Website Performance Issues. Updated 2/25/13 — by May, Erik — last modified Feb 26, 2013 08:29 AM: Websense Latency issues causing slow website performance.
Windows and Apple Operating System Releases — by May, Erik — last modified Nov 06, 2012 09:38 AM: At this time Academic Computing is not planning to do a campus-wide release of Windows 8, but are planning on releasing Mountain Lion (10.8) to the rest of campus at the beginning of November.
Wireless Changing to NetID for Authentication — by May, Erik — last modified Aug 22, 2012 12:10 PM: Starting today, August 14th, a new wireless network will be available on the UW Oshkosh campus. This new wireless network is 'Titan WiFi' and 'Titan WiFi Guest'.
Wireless Issues — by Bannenberg, Liz J. — last modified Oct 11, 2011 08:15 AM: You may notice moments of interrupted wireless service as Technicians are attempting to restore full service.
Wireless Service Upgrade will occur after 4:40 PM 12-26-2012 — by May, Erik — last modified Jan 08, 2013 10:31 AM: The upgrade process shouldn't be noticeable by most customers.
WiscNet Maintenance Outage 1/10/2012 — by May, Erik — last modified Jan 05, 2012 02:22 PM: WiscNet will be doing a maintenance upgrade on Tuesday, Jan. 10 from 6:00 am until 6:30 am.

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