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Pullman network outage, Dec. 21 and Dec. 22

From 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 21, to 2 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 22, ITS will be replacing Pullman border equipment as part of the Wide Area Network project. Non-service impacting staging for this maintenance will start at 6 p.m., but service impacting work will not begin until 8 p.m. Please note the full maintenance window is reserved for this work. […]

Categories: Announcements, WSU ITS

Cyber Security Awareness Training

In accordance with the goals of Executive Policy 37 (EP37), all employees are required to complete designated cyber security trainings within six months of:  The effective date of the revision to EP37 that adds the cyber security training requirement (Jan. 31); or  The date of hire, if hired after the effective revision date.  All employees […]

Categories: Announcements, WSU ITS

“Your WSU/DEVAD password is expiring in three days” Email Reminders

WSU ITS has changed how service account passwords are handled. The following message below is legit. You can either ignore it and continue to receive these email reminders or forward the request on to crimsonservicedesk@wsu.edu to have it deleted. The devad.wsu.edu account came from when Workday was in the process of being tested. These accounts […]

Categories: Announcements, WSU ITS

Aeolus downtime Weds June 8th 2022 12:00 to 15:45

Update: 2022.06.08 @ 14:00 : I am tentatively calling maintenance complete at this time. The unit hosting /home and associated shares now seems to be operating normally. It will be slow for the next several hours as it does various checks and performs a backup of /home, which hadn’t happened since early May. We have […]

Categories: Aeolus

External sender warnings for email start May 24th

From WSU ITS: As part of the University’s ongoing data security efforts, an email banner warning will be implemented on external email to visually cue recipients that the message is from an external sender.  Alerting WSU recipients that the message is from someone outside WSU can play a vital role in protecting against threats caused […]

Categories: Announcements, WSU ITS

[2022-06-16 6:30 – 8:00 AM PST ] VCEA IT Maintenance – GitLab

Gitlab recurring monthly updates at 06:30 am PT on every third Thursday.  This would be just before GitLab’s monthly feature releases & include all of the previous month’s feature patches and bug fixes – https://about.gitlab.com/releases/ This is planned as maintenance recurring monthly See below for complete maintenance info. ———————————————- Maintenance Info POC: VCEA Systems Team (Andrew Bates) […]

Categories: Gitlab

[2022-04-21 6:30 – 8:00 AM PST ] VCEA IT Maintenance – GitLab

Gitlab recurring monthly updates at 06:30 am PT on every third Thursday.  This would be just before GitLab’s monthly feature releases & include all of the previous month’s feature patches and bug fixes – https://about.gitlab.com/releases/ This is planned as maintenance recurring monthly See below for complete maintenance info. ———————————————- Maintenance Info POC: VCEA Systems Team (Andrew Bates) […]

Categories: Gitlab

VCEA IT Maintenance – VCEA Network Firewall Updates – Nights of March 14th and 15th, 2022

There will be very brief outages and/or network blips during the nights below as network firewalls are updated to the latest software. Times are: Monday March 14th : 7pm to MidnightTuesday March 15th: 9pm until 3am March 16th During these timeframes there will be brief network outages, as the firewalls fail over from active to […]

Categories: Firewall