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Slow network for Mac OSX April 14 to April 16, 2014

An incompatibility has been identified between certain versions of Maverick OSX and the Sophos 9.0.6 threat prevention module. This incompatibility caused severe slowness for web browsing on these devices. A newer version of Sophos has been deployed that alleviates the … Continue reading

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Voice Mail Outage: Tuesday April 2, 2014 from 7:33 to 7:39 AM

On Tuesday April 2, 2014 at 7:33 AM, the Call-Pilot Voice Mail server had to be rebooted to clear a hung trunk line. Users were unable to access their voice mail during the server reboot. Services were resumed  at 7:39 … Continue reading

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VoIP Phones outage: March 31, 2014 from 8:20 PM to April 1, 2014 8:30 AM

On Monday March 31, 2014 at 8:20 PM, the VoIP phones’ server failed. The vendor was called and a reboot of the entire PBX phone switch had to be done to bring the VoIP server up. Services were resumed on … Continue reading

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Phone outage: April 1, 2014 from 8:20 to 8:30 AM

On Tuesday April 1, 2014 at 8:20 AM, the entire PBX phone switch had to be rebooted to fix a problem with the VoIP phones. This caused an outage for all phones and call centres all over campus. Services were … Continue reading

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Network Outage: Sunday March 30, 2014 from 5:35 to 6:50 PM

On Sunday March 30, 2014 and between 5:35 to 6:50 PM, CCS received alerts about intermittent Internet access. CCS staff are trying to validate the alerts and find the root cause. We apologize for any inconvenience. -Computing and Communications Services

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Network outage: Friday, March 14, 2014 7:11 AM – 7:35 AM

On Friday, March 14, 2014, at 7:11 AM, CCS added an additional firewall to the existing user subnets to provide extra redundancy. However, the new firewall took over prematurely and caused a network outage on the user subnets. Services were … Continue reading

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Network outage on Friday, February 21, 2014 from 6:15 AM to 7:50 AM

On Friday, February 21, 2014, at 6:15 AM, CCS replaced the existing Internet facing firewall with a newer and much faster firewall. This caused an outage for the incoming and outgoing Internet traffic such as access to email and to … Continue reading

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Network outage for Library 2nd floor on Thursday February 13, 2014 from 7:30 AM to 9:30AM

On Thursday, February 13, 2014, at 7:30 AM, a configuration error in a network switch servicing the library 2nd floor prevented the library computers from renewing their IP address lease. The configuration was fixed at 9:30 AM  and services resumed … Continue reading

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Network outage for academic labs on Friday January 31, 2014 from 00:04 AM to 2:17 AM

On Friday, January 31, 2014, at 00:04 AM the network switch servicing the academic labs at KHW-071 and some of the management subnets became unresponsive. The switch recovered on its own at 2:17 AM. Please accept our apologies for the … Continue reading

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Network outage on Wednesday January 29 from 6:41 PM to Thursday January 30 at 7:50 AM at POD 2nd floor

On Wednesday, January 29, 2014, at 6:41 PM a portion of a network switch servicing 20 connections at the 2nd floor POD building failed. The switch had to be replaced and services were resumed on Thursday, January 30, 2014 at … Continue reading

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