During an upgrade to Shared Drive and Research Drive hardware this weekend (Fri July 11-Sun July 13), there will be intermittent disconnects. You should be able to reconnect. See the DoIT outages page for more …
Status
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 …
Network Outage- RESOLVED
There is a network outage for most, if not all SMPH networking- https://outages.doit.wisc.edu/outage/94b5918b665d541b066adc43e29ffaf89209f97ac2 DoIT is diagnosing the problem now.
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 …
July 11 2024 fileserver “cetus” is full RESOLVED
The fileserver that serves home directories and many other data stores is full.f We are looking for a solution to this issue.
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.