CTS Announcements & System Status

On Wednesday, Feb. 17th Blackboard will be unavailable from 22:00 (10pm) to midnight in order to facilitate system maintenance.

On 2.16.10 (Tuesday) from 21:00 to 23:30 (9pm to 11:30pm) mailing list services provided by lists.potsdam.edu will be unavailable in order to facilitate system maintenance.

The mail queues are currently clear. Upon the discovery of any user responding to a phish email, that user will have his/her password immediately scrambled. For more information on phishing emails, please see http://www.potsdam.edu/cts/services/emailservice/phishing.cfm.

An inordinate number of phishing email replies has caused a backlog in the mail queues. While cleanup is in progress, sent mail will be queued for later delivery.

Bearmail will undergo a 2 (two) hour maintenance window this evening (1/20/10) starting at 20:00 (8 PM). Bearmail will be unavailable for the duration of the window.

Helios Maintenance window has ended, Helios home directories, shares, and web folders are available.

Helios will undergo a four (4) hour maintenance window beginning at 20:00 (8:00 PM) this evening. There will be no access to Helios home directories, shares, and web folders for the duration of the window.

Banner/BearPAWS/HR Time Accounting are all back online at this time.

The following services are temporarily down – Technicians are working on the problem: Banner/BearPAWS/HR Time Accounting

Cooling problems have been resolved, allowing us to bring back on-line all services.