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CCS noticed many websites are slow to load on Monday April 10, 2023. IT Security team resolved the issue at 8:36 AM Please accept our apologies for any problems this may cause. – Computing and Communications Services

On Tuesday January 31, 2023 at 10:39 AM one of the campus firewalls crashed and services automatically failed over to a redundant firewall. That caused internet access outage including open VPN sessions from 10:39 to 10:41 AM. Please accept our … Continue reading →

After the Gmail domain name change to torontomu.ca on December 28, 2022, the synchronization between the voicemail system and Gmail, for the users who opted to use this feature, stopped working. The telecom team is working with the vendor to … Continue reading →

On Friday December 23, 2022, the Jabber client for the phone system stopped working. The telecom team is working with the vendor to resolve the issue. Update: The issue has been resolved at 9:50 AM. Users may need to reset … Continue reading →

All phones went offline on Tuesday December 20 at 7:30 AM. The telecom team is investigating the issue Update: Servers restarted and services resumed at 9:05 Please accept our apologies for any problems this may cause. – Computing and Communications … Continue reading →

While troubleshooting a network security device on Thursday September 29, 2022 at 4:05 PM, the Global Protect VPN service was restarted causing all established sessions to disconnect. VPN users were able to reconnect at 4:07 PM Please accept our apologies … Continue reading →

The microwave link providing network connectivity to DAL & MER buildings stopped working causing a full network outage for these locations. We do not have an ETA for resolution yet, as there is no backup connectivity to these buildings. Please … Continue reading →

On July 20, 2022 at 11:30 AM, a glitch in applying regular firewall rules caused all VPN connections to disconnect. VPN services resumed at 11:39 AM We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. -Computing and Communications Services

On July 9, 2022 at 2:52 AM, the primary data centre firewalls failed and services moved to the secondary data centre firewall. This caused an outage during the transition from 2:52 to 3:02 AM. The IT security team is working … Continue reading →