LSA Technology Services will be performing standard IT maintenance on the LSA Linux and Windows servers the weekend before Spring Break. These servers and services may be temporarily unavailable starting at 8:00 pm on Friday, March 1st. All services are expected to be restored by 3:00 pm, Saturday, March 2nd.

What are we doing?

We're performing routine maintenance:

• Applying software updates
• Decommissioning physical equipment
• Performing additional maintenance
• Testing business continuity plans

What else is going on?

As part of the ongoing LSA Opportunity Hub construction, there will be a complete electrical shutdown of the LSA building, including the generator, which is scheduled to bring the LSA data center offline between 7am and 3pm on Saturday, March 2nd. This primarily affects some researcher-specific environments for the Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) and the Departments of Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, and Sociology. The relevant research teams have been made aware of this work.

What services will be impacted and for how long?

The following services will have intermittent outages on Saturday, March 2nd, between 7am and 3pm: 

• College file services, including DFS-based services 
• College web services, including:
  • Faculty, Lab, & Research (FLR) Websites ("WordPress")
  • SharePoint
  • Web Hosting Environment (WHE, "cPanel")
  • Windows Web Application Hosting (WWAH, "webapps")
• Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
• Museum web applications (Specify)
• Research-specific environments in the LSA Building data center
• Server hosting and monitoring
• Windows Lifecycle Management System (WLMS)
  

If you have any questions about this maintenance activity, please contact the LSA Technology Services IT Service Desk (734.615.0100 x2) for assistance.