Partial RMail Service Disruption: Saturday, January 24, 2015, 11:49 AM – 2:19 PM

The IMAP service on one of Ryerson’s three RMail servers stopped working at 11:49 AM Saturday January 24. The service was restarted and came back online at 2:19 PM. The IMAP service is used by Email software such as Thunderbird and Outlook to read mail and by the Rmail Web system at https://mail.ryerson.ca.

Please accept our apologies for problems this outage caused.

-Computing and Communications Services

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WiFi outage on January 16, 2015 from 10:45 AM to 10:50 AM

On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 10:45 AM, a configuration error was made that prevented new connections to the wireless network. This was corrected at 10:50 AM at which time normal services resumed.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

-Computing and Communications Services

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my.ryerson Service Slowness : Monday, January 12, 2015, 11:20 AM- 12:00 PM

The my.ryerson servers became unresponsive at approximately 11:20 AM today.  This caused service slowness for users who were attempting to logon to my.ryerson.  We identified the issue to be due to the Blackboard portlet in my.ryerson that lists the online courses and organizations.  Around 12:00 AM,  we disabled the portlet and replaced it with the following message:

A list of your online courses and organizations is currently unavailable.

The response time is back to normal. We’ve found the root cause and are working on a permanent fix.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

-Computing and Communications Services

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Scheduled Blackboard system maintenance, Saturday, January 10, 2015 from 00:01 a.m. to 1 a.m.

In order to fix a Blackboard Web Service issue reported on Monday, January 5, 2015, CCS will be making  configuration changes to one of the Blackboard web servers. The change is scheduled for Saturday, January 10, 2015 from 00:01 a.m. to 1 a.m. During this time, the Blackboard Collaboration tools will not be available. All other areas of Blackboard will still be available.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

-Computing and Communications Services

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Authentication System outage – Wedensday, January 7, 2015 – 3:00PM to 3:18 PM

Ryerson’s Central Authentication Service (CAS) (which controls the login process to my.ryerson.ca, Google Apps at Ryerson, and other services) was unavailable this afternoon between 3:00 PM and 3:18 PM.

This outage was caused by a software firewall rule change.  A temporary fix has been implemented and CCS continues to investigate the root cause

Please  accept our apologies for any problems this outage caused.

-Computing and Communications Services

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webinar.ryerson.ca service outage: Dec. 30, 2014 16:43PM – Jan. 5, 2015 10AM

The Adobe Connect service, running on webinar.ryerson.ca, was unavailable from Dec. 30, 2014 16:43PM to Jan. 5, 2015 10:00AM.   The cause of the problem is still under investigation.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

-Computing and Communications Services

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my.ryerson Service Disruption – Monday January 5, 2015

The my.ryerson servers became unresponsive at approximately 11:45 AM.  This caused a service disruption for users who were attempting to log on to my.ryerson. The servers were restarted and service was restored at approximately 12:45 PM . We are continuing to investigate the cause.

Update 1:15 PM : We have isolated the issue. It was due to the Blackboard portlet in my.ryerson that lists the online courses and organizations.  We have since disabled the portlet and replace it with the following message:

A list of your online courses and organizations is currently unavailable.  Please access your online courses and organizations directly at Blackboard.

We are continuing to investigate the root cause.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

-Computing and Communications Services

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Google Calendar Access Disruption – December 10, 2014

CCS has received reports of users experiencing errors when accessing Google Calendar.  Typically, the message indicates that you need to log in and re-authenticate.

CCS is investigating and has contacted Google.  We will update this alert when we have further information. In the mean time, you may find that logging in again to the my.ryerson.ca portal temporarily resolves the problem with Google Calendar.

Update 4 PM: The issue has not been resolved but we have a little more information:

  1. “Users started experiencing the problem around 5 pm last night.
  2. If someone is logged into multiple Google accounts (e.g. @ryerson.ca account and a consumer Gmail account) on the same Chrome browser, they can be quickly booted out.
  3. If a user has cleared their cookies, and re-logs into their @ryerson.caaccount, they can be booted out after 1 hour.
  4. If a user is prompted with the “New” Google Calendar feature, and clicks the “OK, got it” button, the issue appears to be resolved.” (Note. This does not work for everyone.)

Update 10:00 PM, Dec. 12:  While we are still waiting for an official response from Google, we have implemented an interim solution so users won’t be asked constantly to log in again in order to access Google Calendar.

We apologize for the inconvenience,

– Computing and Communications Services

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my.ryerson service disruption: Friday Dec. 5, 2014, 1:43 AM – 8:02 AM

One of the my.ryerson portal servers became unresponsive at approximately 1:43 AM. This caused a service disruption for users who were using  this server.  The server was restarted at 8:02 AM and service was restored. We are continuing to investigate the cause.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

-Computing and Communications Services

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Mail delivery delay: Tuesday Nov. 18 2014, 6:15 PM

We are currently experiencing an email delivery delay of up to 3 hours. Initial findings suggest that the delay started after 6:00 PM today. CCS staff are investigating.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this have caused.

Update 10:50 PM: The delay started at 6:48 PM and was due to emails sent to a mail list with very large number of members. CCS staff continue to investigate.

Update Wed. Nov 19, 2014, 4:23 PM: The delay was due to emails with large attachment (around 4 Mega Bytes) sent to a mail list with very large number of members (around 11,000 recipients).  The delay was cleared at 5:00 AM Wed. Nov 19, 2014.  CCS staff continue to investigate ways to mitigate this issue.

-Computing and Communications Services

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