Drake System Maintenance

BlueView and MYDUSIS will be unavailable at approximately 4:00 p.m. on Friday, June 13, 2008 due to routine maintenance. These applications will be available again at approximately 6:30 p.m.

You can still access Blackboard and webmail directly (without going through BlueView) at the following web addresses:

• Blackboard: http://bb.drake.edu
• Email: http://webmail.drake.edu

For planning purposes the next maintenance windows are scheduled for:

• Friday, August 1 - NOTE: This is expected to be an extended maintenance window possible lasting through August 3 in order to upgrade blueView to the current vendor release. (but you can still get through BB and email through the direct web addresses)
• Friday, September 12, 2008
• Friday, October 17, 2008

Drake Internet Outage--Friday, June 6

FYI:
The Office of Information Technology is planning an Internet maintenance outage scheduled for Friday, 6 June 2008 beginning at 4:30 PM, Central Time (U.S.).

The Internet maintenance will improve the quality of service to the internet offering at Drake. The maintenance outage scheduled will last 30 minutes.

Internet Services functions will be unavailable during the maintenance outage as connectivity will be taken down while migrating to a new service. All Inbound and Outbound functions will be unavailable during this time, including:

• Mail service, including sending and receiving mail
• Access to the blueView home page
• Blackboard
• Internet access Drake