Please be aware of a planned server maintenance scheduled for Thursday, October 15, 2020 from 23h00 to 00h00. During this time, there may be several Windows Servers unavailable at brief intervals. Some of the specific …
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Friday, June 26th, 2020: 8:00pm Service Outage for /z/Comp
Friday evening there will be an outage for maintenance and upgrades to our compute file server: /z/Comp/$PROJECT_NAME This outage will last from 8:00pm to 9:00pm.
Wed, March 18, 2020: Teleconferencing Difficulties
As reported by DoIT, WebEx is having intermittent issues. Here are some vendor links to check up on the status of these tools: Webex Status Zoom Status Skype Status Google’s tool suite, including Hangouts See also DoIT’s …
Tue, March 17, 2020: WiscVPN/Global Protect Issue
The background update has caused problems for some people. The recommendation is to uninstall and reinstall: Users are having issues with Global Protect upgrading in the background. The solution is to uninstall the client, login …
Monday, March 16, 2020: COVID-19 Updates
In response to the Chancellor’s telecommute recommendations, the BCG is making a few operational changes: Most BCG staff are now working from home, with a small rotation of one or two people occasionally in the …
Friday, March 13th, 2020: 9:00pm service outage for /z/Comp
This evening there will be an outage for maintenance and upgrades to our compute file server: /z/Comp/projectname This outage will last from 9:00pm to 11:00pm.
Wed, March 11, 2020: Communication and Collaboration Tools
Chancellor Blank has just announced that face-to-face instruction has been suspended, starting March 23rd. Instructors will be contacted about other methods of instruction by the University. (See also the Instructional Continuity site.) For non-instructional collaboration within research …
Service Interruptions Thursday, March 5th, 9-11pm.
Please do not have long-running computations, including condor jobs, running during the 9pm to 11pm window on Thursday. Anticipating the possibility of a campus-wide shutdown in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the BCG will be conducting a …
28 Feb 2020: Verify Your Remote Access Ability
While there is no particular reason to worry at the moment about a UW Madison shutdown due to COVID-19, it seems worthwhile for everyone to spend a few minutes to verify they can connect to …
Fri, Jan,10 2020: Pavo Down [RESOLVED]
The server Pavo has a hardware failure, and we are working on putting the spare server in place now. We are estimating that it will be back up and running later this evening. UPDATE, 7:30PM, …