As part of the IIT transition, the BMI HTCondor cluster will be shut down permanently during the day of Tuesday, December 30th. Any final jobs you run on the cluster should not run past that …
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Oct 27, 2025: file server outage [Oct 30 Update]
Oct 27, 2pm. The file server pavo which holds many /z/Comp spaces was having network connectivity problems earlier today. We finally started a full reboot on that host, which can take 4-5 hours. The file …
May 30 2025: Central IT Transition
The move from IT provided by the Department itself (through the BCG) to support provided by SMPH central IT (IIT) has been in discussion for several years now. This spring we started moving a few …
March 11, 2025: phishing emails aimed at UW–Madison employees
DoIT is reporting two phishing attacks aimed at UW-Madison employees. “The first is a scam Zoom invitation that results in the victim downloading ScreenConnect software, while the second scam is health related and takes the …
Mon, Nov 25, 2025: Microsoft Service Outage [UPDATE 2:45pm]
Various Microsoft services are running at a degraded level this morning. Affected services include Exchange Online, Microsoft 365 suite, Microsoft Power Automate in Microsoft 365, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, Universal Print, Copilot. Please …
July 12 2024: fileserver “cetus” is unresponsive – RESOLVED
1:20pm – we are looking into this now. 2:30pm – system is rebooting 5:20pm – The reboot usually takes a while, but is taking longer than expected today. We added 70T of storage to this …
Jun 4 2024: File server not responding – RESOLVED
One of the file servers that provides many home directories and Project spaces is currently not responding to file request properly. We are looking into it. 2:15pm – We are rebooting this machine, which can …
May 22, 2024: Default R Version Update due to Security Vulnerability
A serious security problem in data serialization was recently disclosed which applies to all versions of R prior to R 4.4.0. This is considered a high risk vulnerability. UW Cybersecurity recommends that everyone switch to …
Tu, May 21, 2024, 2:00pm: /z/Comp file server outage – RESOLVED
That file server is rebooting, which will take until about 5pm to finish. We will put updates here as we have them. 4:00pm – the file server is back up and serving files again.
Tue, Apr 23, 2024: /z/Comp file server outage – RECOVERED 11:40
11:00am. The file server for most /z/Comp directories had a hardware error. It is currently rebooting (which can take a while given the size of its file systems). We will add updates to this post. …