ITS Maintenance Digest - Week of January 14th to January 20th

ITS Maintenance/Information for this week:

This is your weekly digest of system maintenance/information and downtime. All notices are also posted on the myUNBC Student Portal (Ellucian Experience) under resources, gounbc.sharepoint.com for Employees, support.unbc.ca and on unbc.ca /its. Please see one of these locations for maintenance notices.

Tuesday, January 14th || Time: 8:00pm – 10:00pm

Server upgrade- Short Banner disruptions are expected. 

  • Banner Admin Pages – BANPROD, BPREPROD, BQAWEEK 
  • UNBC Online Services (Student, Alumni and Employee) 
  • UNBC Password Management Services 
  • UNBC Online Phone List 
  • FAST – fast.unbc.ca  
  • Argos Reports – reports.unbc.ca 

Thursday, January 16th  || Time: 10:30pm 

Windows Workstation patching- (all desktops and laptops running Windows) 

  • Security Updates are available to install from Tuesday, January 14th at 12:30pm 
  • Please follow restart instructions prior to the Thursday, January 16th at 10:30pm, when restarts will occur automatically 

Thursday, January 16th || Time: 10:00pm – 11:00pm 

Phone system reboot

  • Desk phones, softphones and voicemail system affected. No calls in or out during that duration.
  • Extreme Wireless, our wireless authentication service, will be doing maintenance on their systems.
  • Users that log into Wi-Fi under the following will not be able to log in or will be disconnected
    • UNBC-PCG
    • UNBC-Guest
    • UNBC-RESNET

Sunday, January 19th || Time:  8:00pm – 10:00pm

Wi-Fi Maintenance

UNBC and Eduroam networks are not affected by this maintenance. 

For more information on the various UNBC Wi-Fi networks, visit our Knowledge base article: WIFI Access