See the following MyWSU maintenance schedule

Start Date: Saturday, February 19

Start Time: 1:30 a.m.

End Date: Saturday, February 19

End time: 7:30 a.m.

The following work is being completed: Oracle will apply critical security patches to the myWSU environment. During this maintenance period, myWSU will not be accessible.

All affected groups: myWSU users

All processes affected: myWSU access

Duration of impact: Up to 6 hours total

Follow up steps customers need to take: None

For assistance, contact: Crimson Service Desk by phone at (509) 335-4357, email at crimsonservicedesk@wsu.edu, or visit https://its.wsu.edu/csd/

Please see the following Information Technology Services notice:

Date:  02/10/2022
Start Time: 6 pm
End Time: Midnight

The following work is being completed:  Installation of Windows patches for Tier 1 servers

All affected groups:  Pullman campus/Everett campus

Duration of impact:  Patches have synchronized from Microsoft to SCCM.  ITS will be installing patches on Production servers.

All processes affected:  Windows Server Patching – intermittent outages are expected for systems without redundancy.

Follow up steps customers need to take:  None

For assistance, contact: Crimson Service Desk by phone at (509) 335-4357, email at crimsonservicedesk@wsu.edu, or visit https://its.wsu.edu/csd/

See the following MyWSU scheduled maintenance:

Start Date: Friday, February 4
Start Time: 11:30 p.m.
End Date: Saturday, February 5
End time: 7:30 a.m.

The following work is being completed: Oracle will apply a critical PeopleSoft updates to the myWSU environment. During this maintenance period myWSU will not be accessible.

All affected groups: myWSU users

All processes affected: myWSU access

Duration of impact: Up to 8 hours total

Follow up steps customers need to take: None

For assistance, contact: Crimson Service Desk by phone at (509) 335-4357, or via email crimsonservicedesk@wsu.edu.

Please see the following Information Technology Services (ITS) scheduled maintenance:

Dates: Thursday, January 27, 2022
Start Time: 8 PM
End Time: 11 PM

The following work is being completed:  ITS is making a configuration change on the Pullman Palo Alto firewalls to add an additional log destination.

Duration of impact for all locations: No impact is expected from this work.

All processes affected: WSU Pullman Palo Alto firewalls

Follow up steps customers need to take: None

For assistance, contact: Crimson Service Desk by phone at (509) 335-4357, or via email crimsonservicedesk@wsu.edu.

See the following MyWSU maintenance schedule:

Sart Date: Saturday, January 29
Start Time: 11:00 p.m.
End Date: Sunday, January 30
End time: 7:00 a.m.

The following work is being completed: Oracle will apply a critical system patches to the myWSU environment. During this maintenance period myWSU will not be accessible.

All affected groups: myWSU users

All processes affected: myWSU access

Duration of impact: Up to 8 hours total

Follow up steps customers need to take: None.

For assistance, contact: Crimson Service Desk by phone at (509) 335-4357, or via email crimsonservicedesk@wsu.edu.

Please see the following scheduled ITS maintenance process:

Date:  Friday, Jan. 14, 2022 (ongoing, see below)
Start Time:  12:00 AM

The following work is being completed: Beginning Friday, January 14, 2022, Panopto will automatically archive any video that has not been viewed in the past thirteen months. Panopto will run the archiving process twice per month, with the first run occurring on the 14th.

All affected groups: All users

Follow up steps customers need to take: Please review the following WSU Knowledge Base article to see how a video can be restored: Panopto – Video Archival and Restoration – Knowledge Base – Crimson Service Desk Knowledge Base (wsu.edu) https://confluence.esg.wsu.edu/display/KB/Panopto+-+Video+Archival+and+Restoration

Additional Info: The unviewed videos will not be deleted. Videos will be retained in inactive storage indefinitely and can be restored to be viewed. Restoration of an archived video can take up to 48 hours.

For technical assistance: For any questions, please contact Crimson Service Desk via email crimsonservicedesk@wsu.edu, by phone at (509) 335-4357, or online http://crimsonservicedesk.wsu.edu/

Please see the following scheduled Information Technology Services change process below:

Date: 1/18/2022 – 1/21/2022
Start time: 6:00 AM
End time: 11:59 PM

The following work is being completed: ITS will apply VMware updates to the Virtual Infrastructure.  No disruption is expected due to the resiliency of the cluster undergoing the update.

All affected groups: SLA VMs in Pullman, ITS VMs in Pullman

Duration of impact: None

All processes affected: None

Follow up steps customers need to take: None

For assistance, contact: Crimson Service Desk by phone at (509) 335-4357, or via email crimsonservicedesk@wsu.edu.

Please see the following scheduled ITS maintenance process.

Date:  Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Start Time:  8:00 PM
End Time:  8:15 PM

The following work is being completed: Excel’s built-in add-ins for data visualization: “Visio Data Visualizer,” “Bing Maps,” and “People Graph” require approval in the admin console to work. This would allow for the use of these Microsoft-created add-ins.

All affected groups: Everyone at WSU would have the ability to use these add-ins to visualize Excel data.

Duration of impact: Anticipated 15 minutes for implementation.

Follow up steps customers need to take: None

Additional Info: Clicking on the add-in links will now work, where previously it would have lead to a message that the add-in was not allowed.

For assistance, contact: Crimson Service Desk by phone at (509) 335-4357, or via email crimsonservicedesk@wsu.edu.

Please see the following Information Technology Services notice:

Date:  01/11/2022
Start Time: 06:00 PM
End Time: 11:59 PM

The following work is being completed:  Installation of Windows patches for Tier 1 servers

All affected groups:  Pullman campus/Everett campus

Duration of impact:  Patches have synchronized from Microsoft to SCCM.  ITS will be installing patches on Production servers.

All processes affected:  Windows Server Patching – intermittent outages are expected for systems without redundancy.

Follow up steps customers need to take:  None

For assistance, contact: Crimson Service Desk by phone at (509) 335-4357, or via email crimsonservicedesk@wsu.edu.

Please see the myWSU census data schedule:

Date: Friday, Jan 21, 2022
Start time: 6:00 pm
End time: 9:00 pm

The following work is being completed: Access to myWSU will be turned off while 10th-day census data is collected from MyWSU.

All affected groups: myWSU users

Duration of impact: Maximum of 3 hours

All processes affected: Active user sessions will terminate by 6:15 pm, and any new users trying to log into myWSU during the census collection will be redirected to a myWSU Maintenance notification page.

Follow up steps customers need to take: none

For assistance, contact: Crimson Service Desk by phone at (509) 335-4357, or via email crimsonservicedesk@wsu.edu.