Scheduled - IS&T will be upgrading the network in Building W64. There will be a brief outage lasting 5 minutes.
Jan 11, 18:48 EST

Scheduled - Building 68 Network Maintenance - Users in Building 68 on the 3rd floor may experience a loss of wired MITnet service starting Wednesday, January 16th, from 6:00 am through 12-Noon. MIT Wireless network will not be affected.

If you experience an issue connecting to MITnet beyond the posted maintenance window please contact the IS&T Service Desk at 617-253-1101 or servicedesk@mit.edu to open an incident report.
Jan 10, 14:43 EST

Scheduled - As part of the MITnet Next Generation Project, the wired network IP address ranges for the listed buildings will be changed and placed behind the campus firewalls. Sporadic loss of network connectivity to/from the affected buildings during the maintenance window is expected.
Jan 3, 12:20 EST

Scheduled - IS&T will be performing network maintenance in Building 54. There should be no network impact.
Jan 14, 19:21 EST

Scheduled - IS&T will be upgrading the network in Building W11. There will be a brief outage lasting 5 minutes.
Jan 11, 18:46 EST

Scheduled - Building 68 Network Maintenance - Users in Building 68 on the basement floor may experience a loss of wired MITnet service starting Tuesday, January 15th, from 6:00 am through 12-Noon. MIT Wireless network will not be affected.

If you experience an issue connecting to MITnet beyond the posted maintenance window please contact the IS&T Service Desk at 617-253-1101 or servicedesk@mit.edu to open an incident report.
Jan 10, 14:42 EST

Scheduled - IS&T will be upgrading the network in Building W53. There will be a brief outage lasting 5 minutes.
Jan 11, 18:44 EST

Scheduled - SAP cloud components of the MIT Warehouse will be unavailable this weekend, between 5PM on Friday, January 11 and 12:00 noon on Saturday, January 12. During this service outage, updates will be applied to warehouse software components and testing will be conducted against the updated warehouse environment. While this work is taking place, access to MIT Warehouse Enrollment Management and Powerfaids data will not be available. SAP related data will be available, however, it will reflect activity as of Friday (January 11) morning. Updated MIT Warehouse data is expected to become available Sunday (January 13) morning. If you have any questions about this outage or the maintenance being performed, feel free to send mail to warehouse@mit.edu.
Jan 9, 12:01 EST

Scheduled - IS&T will be upgrading the network in Building W8. There will be a brief outage lasting 5 minutes.
Jan 11, 18:49 EST

Scheduled - The SAP production environment will be unavailable on Saturday, January 12th, between 01:30AM and 06:30AM. During this maintenance window, SAP technical resources plan to perform preventive maintenance for the SAP system's database server hardware. Please note that, while this work is taking place, SAP, B2P, Facilities/Work-Manager, GAP, MIT Warehouse SAP data, as well as all Atlas SAP activity (including time sheet entry/approval, training, requisitioning, journal vouchers, credit card verification, events planning, and service requests) will be unavailable.
Jan 9, 12:08 EST

Scheduled - Microsoft monthly patches have been released. Notes on the release are available here: https://kb.mit.edu/confluence/display/istcontrib/Microsoft+Monthly+Patch+Release+January+2019
Jan 10, 13:59 EST

Scheduled - On Thursday, January 10, between noon and 5pm, Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) will be performing maintenance on the automated tape library (ATL) that TSM uses to store server backups. The goal of this work is to upgrade the firmware on the ATL, so that we can use tapes that hold more data per tape.

During the maintenance window, the ATL will be intermittently unavailable; when it is unavailable, restore requests and archive creation requests may be delayed or fail due to the inability to reach a tape. This work will not affect desktop backups made via CrashPlan.
Jan 9, 14:47 EST

Scheduled - IS&T will be upgrading the network in Building W61. There will be a brief outage lasting 5 minutes.
Jan 2, 19:18 EST

Scheduled - Building 68 Network Maintenance - Users in Building 68 on the 6th floor may experience a loss of wired MITnet service starting Thursday, January 10th, from 6:00 am through 12-Noon. MIT Wireless network will not be affected.

If you experience an issue connecting to MITnet beyond the posted maintenance window please contact the IS&T Service Desk at 617-253-1101 or servicedesk@mit.edu to open an incident report.
Jan 9, 08:03 EST

Scheduled - IS&T will be upgrading the network in Building W51. There will be a brief outage lasting 5 minutes.
Jan 2, 19:17 EST

Scheduled - Building 68 Network Maintenance - Users in Building 68 on the 4th floor may experience a loss of wired MITnet service starting Wednesday, January 9th, from 6:00 am through 12-Noon. MIT Wireless network will not be affected.

If you experience an issue connecting to MITnet beyond the posted maintenance window please contact the IS&T Service Desk at 617-253-1101 or servicedesk@mit.edu to open an incident report.
Jan 3, 22:28 EST

Scheduled - The VPN Client software (AnyConnect) which is made available on the VPN devices, will be upgraded to the latest version. Upon completion, systems running older versions of the VPN client will auto-update to the upgraded version when a new VPN connection is established.

Existing VPN sessions will not be disconnected, and no outage is expected.

Users wishing to upgrade their VPN client software prior to the scheduled date, can manually download and install the latest version of AnyConnect from the IS&T Software Grid. - https://ist.mit.edu/software-hardware

Installing the latest version prior to the scheduled upgrade will not prevent users from connecting to the VPN.
Dec 7, 15:35 EST

Scheduled - IS&T will be upgrading the network in Building W1. There will be a brief outage lasting 5 minutes.
Jan 2, 19:16 EST

Scheduled - Building 68 Network Maintenance - Users in Building 68 on the 2nd floor may experience a loss of wired MITnet service starting Tuesday, January 8th, from 6:00 am through 12-Noon. MIT Wireless network will not be affected.

If you experience an issue connecting to MITnet beyond the posted maintenance window please contact the IS&T Service Desk at 617-253-1101 or servicedesk@mit.edu to open an incident report.
Jan 3, 22:25 EST

Scheduled - The Sophos server will be upgraded to the latest version. There are no client side or end user noticeable changes as part of this upgrade.
Jan 7, 14:22 EST

Scheduled - Building 34 Scheduled power shutdown on 4th floor - Users in Building 34 on the 4th floor may experience a loss of wired MITnet service Tuesday, January 8th, from 6:00am-7am. MIT Wireless network will not be affected.

If you experience an issue connecting to MITnet beyond the posted maintenance window please contact the IS&T Service Desk at 617-253-1101 or servicedesk@mit.edu to open an incident report.
Jan 4, 16:16 EST

Scheduled - An upgrade is scheduled for the software platform utilized by the MIT Travel Registry. Brief interruption in service is expected.
Jan 2, 17:14 EST

Scheduled - Building 68 Network Maintenance - Users in Building 68 on the 5th floor may experience a loss of wired MITnet service starting Friday, January 4th, from 6:00 am through 12-Noon. MIT Wireless network will not be affected.

If you experience an issue connecting to MITnet beyond the posted maintenance window please contact the IS&T Service Desk at 617-253-1101 or servicedesk@mit.edu to open an incident report.
Dec 19, 12:19 EST

Scheduled - On Thursday, January 3, between noon and 8pm, Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) will be performing maintenance on the automated tape library (ATL) that TSM uses to store server backups. The goal of this work is to upgrade the firmware on the ATL, so that we can use tapes that hold more data per tape.

During the maintenance window, the ATL will be intermittently unavailable; when it is unavailable, restore requests and archive creation requests may be delayed or fail due to the inability to reach a tape. This work will not affect desktop backups made via CrashPlan.
Dec 28, 16:33 EST

Scheduled - Building 68 Network Maintenance - Users in Building 68 on the 3rd floor may experience a loss of wired MITnet service starting Thursday, January 3rd, from 6:00 am through 12-Noon. MIT Wireless network will not be affected.

If you experience an issue connecting to MITnet beyond the posted maintenance window please contact the IS&T Service Desk at 617-253-1101 or servicedesk@mit.edu to open an incident report.
Dec 19, 12:16 EST