A 24-hour system outage, originally scheduled for the Information Technologies (IT) building for October 2009, has been rescheduled at the request of the Physical Plant Department (PPD). In order to better accommodate the academic calendar, this work has now been scheduled for late-May 2010. Additional reminders will be sent out closer to the date.
The outage, for electrical maintenance, is anticipated to impact many centrally-hosted IT services, such as e-mail, WebCT, LoboWeb, my.unm.edu, Libros, test scoring, and Instructor and Course Evaluations. IT is currently working to identify the costs associated with keeping some core services available if funds become available. Scheduling the outage in late May will ensure final exams, spring graduation and end-of-fiscal-year processes will be completed without any break in IT services. The weekend after graduation is likely to become the potential window of annual downtime for routine IT building or data center work in the future.
For more information and a list of frequently asked questions and answers about the outage visit: Powerup 2010. Individual and or departments may also contact the IT Support Center at 277-4848.
Media Contact: Vanessa Baca, (505) 277-0987; e-mail: vjbaca1@unm.edu