Multiple Service
Interruptions During the Week of
Jan. 2nd
News
Bulletins
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Various computing systems will undergo
maintenance during the first week
of January, 2007. Service interruptions
will proceed as follows.
-- Thursday, January 4, 8am through
10am
BLACKBOARD
Thursday, January 4, the Tri-College
Blackboard system will be upgraded
to version 7.1. From 8:00 am to 10:00
am, while the upgrade is in progress,
you will be unable to access the system.
Once the upgrade is complete, all course
existing course data, including grade
books and student submissions, should
be accessible as before.
The new version of Blackboard brings
some significant changes to the Discussion
Board. It will also brings some subtle,
but useful changes to the wiki and blog
tools, including the option to create
RSS feeds from your course wikis and
blogs. RSS feeds can alert you and your
students to new content, before you
log into Blackboard.
To learn more about the new discussion
board, you may attend a short workshop
on the subject, or contact any member
of the Blackboard support team. To register
for this, or other ACC winter workshops,
see http://www.haverford.edu/acc/training/january07.html
-- Thursday, January 4, 5pm through
7pm
On Thursday, January 4th from 5pm to
7pm Academic Computing will be performing
maintenance on critical systems that
control printing
and sharing of software on campus. During the maintenance period
Keyserved applications such as Dreamweaver,
Photoshop, Mathematica, Filemaker Pro
and Sibelius will be unavailable.
Networked printing for academic departments
will also be suspended for 30 minutes
from 6:30pm to 7pm. Those attempting
to print to networked queues during
this period may need to resend their
jobs when print services resume.
-- Friday, January 5, 11pm through
Saturday, January 6, 4am
EMAIL
During this interruption
users will not be able
to retrieve mail messages from
college servers. No mail will
be lost during the maintenance period.
Mail sent or received during this
period will be queued and delivered
when service is restored.
Webpublish Server
During this interruption, users
authorized to publish web content will
be unable to post changes to the
college web site http://www.haverford.edu.
The college web site, however, will
still be able to serve pages to
the Internet throughout the maintenance
period.
-- Sunday, January 6, 9am
- 10pm
Storage Server
Access to documents stored
on the Storage Server will
not be available during
the maintenance period. Student home pages, which
are housed on the Storage Server,
will also be unavailable. Learn more
about the Storage Server by reading http://www.haverford.edu/acc/docs/network/storage/about.html.
The college's web server www.haverford.edu will
not be impacted by this maintenance.
If you have questions or concerns
about this interruption, please
contact your computing support
liaisons:
Students, faculty and academic
staff please contact Academic Computing:
Telephone: 610-896-1480
Email: helpdesk@haverford.edu
Administrative staff please contact
Administrative Computing:
Telephone: 610-896-1044
Email: admincc@haverford.edu
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