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==Announcements==
 
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<dt>[[Multiple UBC Service Outages (May 15, 2018)]]
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<dt>[[Kaiser power outage (February 20, 2021)]]
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<dd>There is a power outage planned for the Kaiser building on Saturday, February 20, from 10 am to 2 pm. This outage is necessary as part of the MacLeod construction project.
  
Accessibility to a number of UBC services has been impacted by issues with Educloud services this morning. We are expecting some services like authentication services to be up by noon and the remaining services to be up and running by the early afternoon.
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<dt>[[File and mail migration (2020)]]
 
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<dd>In October and November 2020, ECE IT will be performing migrations of two major systems that will affect ECE users.  A file migration involves some disruption during each user's cutover period.  The ECE e-mail migration will happen seamlessly and with negligible disruption for the majority of users.
List of Impacted Services:
 
 
 
    Authentication services: Shibboleth, RADIUS, EAD, ELDAP
 
    UBC Wireless
 
    Faculty and Staff Email
 
    Skype for Business
 
    SharePoint
 
    Student Information Systems
 
    FMS/HRMS
 
    Canvas
 
    Connect
 
    Workspace
 
    Bronze web hosting
 
    Kaltura
 
    UBC Blogs
 
    UBC CMS
 
    UBC myVPN
 
    Pay for Print
 
 
 
<dt>[[Scheduled ECE network outage (February 16, 2018)]]
 
<dd>On 2018-02-16, from 20:00 to 22:00, the ECE network and most ECE services will be unavailable.
 
 
 
<dt>[[General ECE service outage (September 14, 2017)]]
 
<dd>From 2017-09-14 11:10 to approximately 15:30, most ECE services were down, including home directories, SMB shares, IMAP, Webmail, and websites. Services should be working now; please report any persisting abnormalities. Queued inbound mail should be have been delivered now.
 
 
 
<dt>[[Problems connecting to ubcprivate (September 12, 2017)]]
 
<dd>Reports have been received of problems connecting to the "ubcprivate" wireless network.  Central IT has been notified of the situation.  In the meantime, the ECE network can be accessed wirelessly by using the "ubcsecure" wireless network together with the ECE VPN.  A Cisco "AnyConnect" VPN client is available at http://myvpn.ubc.ca.  The server to connect to from the client is myvpn.ubc.ca.  Credentials are the same as for ubcprivate.
 
 
 
<dt>[[Matlab license server and Teamshare inaccessible (May 1, 2017)]]
 
<dd>Following the firewall upgrade yesterday, the nameservers for the ead.ubc.ca DNS zone were failing to respond, causing services such as Teamshare and MATLAB licensing to be unavailable to ECE users until 14:45.
 
 
 
<dt>[[Teamviewer outage (Jun 1, 2016)]]
 
<dd>Due to widespread reports that unauthorized users have been able to remotely control computers through TeamViewer, we have taken the precaution of blocking TeamViewer on the ECE network.
 
 
 
<dt>[[Malicious email (Feb 11, 2016)]]
 
<dd>If you have received an email with subject "Scan from KM1650" and attachment "=SCAN7318_000.DOC" please do not open it. The attachment contains a trojan.
 
 
 
<dt>[[Change to access to IEEExplore from off-campus]]
 
<dd>Please be aware that the Library no longer provides access to IEEExplore through myVPN. Off-campus users should now use EZproxy instead:
 
 
 
https://login.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/login?qurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.library.ubc.ca
 
 
 
http://ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/login?url=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/DynWel.jsp
 
 
 
Please note that access through EZproxy is available only to current UBC students, staff, and faculty.
 
  
 
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Announcements

Kaiser power outage (February 20, 2021)
There is a power outage planned for the Kaiser building on Saturday, February 20, from 10 am to 2 pm. This outage is necessary as part of the MacLeod construction project.
File and mail migration (2020)
In October and November 2020, ECE IT will be performing migrations of two major systems that will affect ECE users. A file migration involves some disruption during each user's cutover period. The ECE e-mail migration will happen seamlessly and with negligible disruption for the majority of users.