Category: Scheduled Maintenance

Moodle Upgrade

Posted on by WordPress Administrator

Information Services will be updating Moodle on Wednesday, August 14th from 11am to 2pm.  Please note that Moodle to be unavailable on Wednesday during that time. After completion, we will be upgraded to Moodle 4.4.

Moodle 4.4 should not be a disruptive change but will include a visual update, a change to the text editor, upgrade to our Hypothesis annotation tool, and various improvements.  For a more detailed preview of changes, please read the Moodle Site News.

Contact Josh Moon, Educational Technology Specialist, at josh.moon@kzoo.edu with any questions.

2024-04-11 Scheduled Maintenance

Posted on by Stefan Nash

Services to be Interrupted

Planned maintenance from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday will interrupt some services on campus. Expect a brief VPN disruption every week.

  • Computer labs: some software (MATLAB, Maple, ArcGIS, Rhino)
  • Web: ems.kzoo.edu

The interruptions listed above are not expected to require the entire maintenance window. The interruptions above are necessary to improve performance, reliability, and security of the systems in question.

Questions

If you have further questions about this upcoming maintenance/outage please Contact the Help Desk between 8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. at :

2024-04-04 Scheduled Maintenance

Posted on by Stefan Nash

Services to be Interrupted

Planned maintenance from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday will interrupt some services on campus. Expect a brief VPN disruption every week.

  • Web: federated web applications like Microsoft 365
  • Web: various sites
  • Bookstore systems
  • KFiles
  • Off-campus library database access
  • Printing

The interruptions listed above are expected to require the entire maintenance window. The interruptions above are necessary to improve performance, reliability, and security of the systems in question.

Questions

If you have further questions about this upcoming maintenance/outage please Contact the Help Desk between 8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. at :

2024-03-28 Scheduled Maintenance

Posted on by Peter Zillmann

Services to be Interrupted

Planned maintenance from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday will interrupt some services on campus. Expect a brief VPN disruption every week.

  • Wi-Fi (outage may last until 10:00 P.M.)
  • Wired network ports in residence halls
  • Web: WordPress websites, people.kzoo.edu and www.kzoo.edu
  • Ellucian Colleague and related systems

The interruptions listed above are expected to require the entire maintenance window. The interruptions above are necessary to improve performance, reliability, and security of the systems in question.

Questions

If you have further questions about this upcoming maintenance/outage please Contact the Help Desk between 8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. at :

2023-12-14 Scheduled Maintenance

Posted on by Peter Zillmann

Services to be Interrupted

Planned maintenance from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday will interrupt some services on campus. Expect a brief VPN disruption every week.

  • Computer labs: some software (MATLAB, Maple, ArcGIS, Rhino)
  • Web: ems.kzoo.edu
  • Network and phone connections in Hicks Center will see a 20-minute interruption between 5:00 and 6:00 P.M.

The interruptions listed above are not expected to require the entire maintenance window. The interruptions above are necessary to improve performance, reliability, and security of the systems in question.

Questions

If you have further questions about this upcoming maintenance/outage please Contact the Help Desk between 8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. at :

2023-10-19 Scheduled Maintenance

Posted on by Peter Zillmann

Services to be Interrupted

Planned maintenance from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday will interrupt some services on campus. Expect a brief VPN disruption every week.

  • Various websites (including this page)
  • EMS
  • Ellucian Colleague and related systems
  • Email delivery may be delayed

The interruptions listed above are expected to require the entire maintenance window. The interruptions above are necessary to improve performance, reliability, and security of the systems in question.

Questions

If you have further questions about this upcoming maintenance/outage please Contact the Help Desk between 8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. at :

2023-06-15 Scheduled Maintenance

Posted on by Peter Zillmann

Services to be Interrupted

Planned maintenance from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday will interrupt some services on campus. Expect a brief VPN disruption every week.

  • KFiles
  • Ellucian Colleague and related systems
  • BusinessObjects

The interruptions listed above are expected to require the entire maintenance window. The interruptions above are necessary to improve performance, reliability, and security of the systems in question.

Questions

If you have further questions about this upcoming maintenance/outage please Contact the Help Desk between 8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. at :

2023-06-08 Scheduled Maintenance

Posted on by Peter Zillmann

Services to be Interrupted

Planned maintenance from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday will interrupt some services on campus. Expect a brief VPN disruption every week.

  • email delivery (inbound and some outbound messages will be delayed)
  • KFiles
  • Off-campus library database access
  • Printing
  • Web: ems.kzoo.edu, federated web applications like Microsoft 365
  • Wi-Fi (clients not already connected will briefly be unable to join the network)

The interruptions listed above are expected to require the entire maintenance window. The interruptions above are necessary to improve performance, reliability, and security of the systems in question.

Questions

If you have further questions about this upcoming maintenance/outage please Contact the Help Desk between 8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. at :

2023-04-13 Scheduled Maintenance

Posted on by Peter Zillmann

Services to be Interrupted

Planned maintenance from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday will interrupt some services on campus. Expect a brief VPN disruption every week.

  • Ellucian Colleague and related systems
  • Websites: ems.kzoo.edu
  • Informer reporting

The interruptions listed above are expected to require the entire maintenance window. The interruptions above are necessary to improve performance, reliability, and security of the systems in question.

Questions

If you have further questions about this upcoming maintenance/outage please Contact the Help Desk between 8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. at :

Scheduled Maintenance 2023-03-23

Posted on by Peter Zillmann

Services to be Interrupted

Planned maintenance from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday will interrupt some services on campus. Expect a brief VPN disruption every week.

  • Wi-Fi
  • Some email delivery will be delayed
  • Some computer lab software will be unavailable

The interruptions listed above are not expected to require the entire maintenance window. The interruptions above are necessary to improve performance, reliability, and security of the systems in question.

Questions

If you have further questions about this upcoming maintenance/outage please Contact the Help Desk between 8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. at :