Author Archives: Branka Halilovic

Security Advisory – Adobe Breach

On Oct 3, 2013, Adobe Systems Inc. announced that its network had been breached.  The cyber attack compromised information relating to Adobe’s 2.9 million customers, including payment data such as credit card numbers, as well as the source code for … Continue reading

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my.ryerson outage: Friday, May 30, 2013, 8 AM – 8:26 AM

On Friday, May 30, 2013, between 6 am and 8 am,  CCS was performing  scheduled maintenance on storage devices which impacted the my.ryerson portal and all applications accessed through the my.ryerson portal, CAS and all CAS-fied applications, RMS administration and … Continue reading

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Problem with Blackboard Chat Tool: Wednesday, March 13, 2013

This week we started getting reports of the Blackboard Chat tool not working for some users. After investigation, it was determined that the latest language pack which was rolled out to production on Friday, March 8 caused issues with the Chat … Continue reading

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Scheduled applications outage during the Daylight Saving Time (DST) switch: Sunday, March 10, 2013 1 AM – 3:30 AM

RAMSS, eHR and OGF services will not be available on Sunday, March 10, 2013 between 1 AM and 3:30 AM due to the DST switch. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. -Computing and Communications Services

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Hardware issues with CS/RAMSS servers, January 16 and January 17

Two of the four RAMSS (PeopleSoft Campus Solutions) application servers crashed at approximately 00:02 am on Wednesday, January 16. They both came back up normally. However, during the day on Wednesday, January 16, we started  experiencing the same issues issues … Continue reading

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Scheduled www.ryerson.ca and the my.ryerson portal outage: Friday, January 18, between 6 am and 7 am

To mitigate issues that caused my.ryerson and CAS services interruptions on Dec 26, 2012 and Jan 1, 2013, CCS will be moving www.ryerson.ca and uPortal to a new load balancer on Friday, January 18, between 6 AM and 7 AM. … Continue reading

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Scheduled RAMSS outage, December 24, 2012 from 5:30 am to 12 noon

Due to a hydro power upgrade project that must be completed at Ryerson, RAMSS will be unavailable on December 24, 2012 from 5:30 am to 12 noon. This is unavoidable and we apologize in advance for the inconvenience that this … Continue reading

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CAS service interruption: Dec. 16 11:7 PM – Dec 17 2:12 AM

Central Authentication Service (CAS) application server’s threads had reached the max and could not handle new requests at 11:57 PM on December 16, 2012. Services were restored at 2:12 AM on December 17, 2012. This affected all CASified applications, including … Continue reading

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Intermittent Campus Printing Service (CPS): Tuesday, Nov. 28 2012 8:16 AM – 9:16 AM

Web based Campus Printing Service (CPS) periodically generated errors when users submitted print  jobs online from 8:16 AM to 9:16 AM this morning.  A restart of the application resolved the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience. -Computing and Communications Services

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New Gmail compose and reply features – November 27, 2012

Google has rolled out a new Gmail compose and reply feature. When  Ryerson Gmail users login to their accounts, they will notice a new popup window asking them to try out the new compose experience. More information about a new … Continue reading

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