During the 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. maintenance window on Thursday, March 4, 2021, the Exchange email server will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance. We do not expect the outage to take the full window. This maintenance is required to maintain the security and reliability of the service. Please contact the Help Desk (Helpdesk@kzoo.edu) with any questions.
Category: Scheduled Maintenance
Scheduled Emergency Maintenance for February 25, 2021
Campus WiFi will be off line beginning at 5:00 a.m. EST for a software upgrade. We expect the outage to last one hour or less.
The down time is required to improve the service and reliability of the WiFi infrastructure.
Scheduled Maintenance for 2021-01-28
Services to be Interrupted

Planned maintenance from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, January 28, 2021, will interrupt some services on campus. Expect a brief VPN disruption every week.
- Counseling Center scheduling
- Off-campus library database access
- Printing: Center for New Media Design, computer labs, offices
- Web: webmail.kzoo.edu
- Wi-Fi (clients not already connected will briefly be unable to join the network; outage after 8:00 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 :
- Email: helpdesk@kzoo.edu
- Phone: 269.337.5800
scheduled maintenance for 2021-01-14
Services to be Interrupted

Planned maintenance from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, January 14, 2021, will interrupt some services on campus. Expect a brief VPN disruption every week.
- Counseling Center scheduling
- Ellucian Colleague and related systems
- Off-campus library database access
- Printing: Center for New Media Design, computer labs, offices
- Web: webmail.kzoo.edu, WordPress sites, including this page
- Wi-Fi
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 :
- Email: helpdesk@kzoo.edu
- Phone: 269.337.5800
scheduled maintenance for 2020-12-17
Services to be Interrupted

Planned maintenance from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, December 17, 2020, will interrupt some services on campus. Expect a brief VPN disruption every week.
- Ellucian Colleague and related systems
- Web: people.kzoo.edu, filedrop.kzoo.edu, Moodle, WordPress sites (including this page), and more
- Bookstore systems
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 :
- Email: helpdesk@kzoo.edu
- Phone: 269.337.5800
Scheduled Maintenance for 2020-12-10
Services to be Interrupted

Planned maintenance from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, December 10, 2020, will interrupt some services on campus. Expect a brief VPN disruption every week.
- Computer labs: some software (MATLAB, Maple, ArcGIS, Rhino)
- Facilities Management Systems
- im.kzoo.edu “Spark Chat”
- KFiles
- listserves
- VPN access
- Web: blogs.kzoo.edu, campus.kzoo.edu, www.kzoo.edu, ems.kzoo.edu, filedrop.kzoo.edu, Moodle, WordPress sites (including this page), and more
- Portal: portal.kzoo.edu will be rerouted to hive.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 :
- Email: helpdesk@kzoo.edu
- Phone: 269.337.5800
Scheduled Maintenance 2020-12-03
Services to be Interrupted

Planned maintenance from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, December 3, 2020, will interrupt some services on campus. Expect a brief VPN disruption every week.
- email delivery
- Internet connection
- Web: computerlabs.kzoo.edu, rt.kzoo.edu, federated web applications like Microsoft 365
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 :
- Email: helpdesk@kzoo.edu
- Phone: 269.337.5800
Scheduled maintenance 2020-10-22
Services to be Interrupted

Planned maintenance from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, October 22, 2020, will interrupt some services on campus. Expect a brief VPN disruption every week.
- Ellucian Colleague
- Counseling Center scheduling
- Off-campus library database access
- Printing
- Web: some web applications, webmail.kzoo.edu
- Wi-Fi
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 :
- Email: helpdesk@kzoo.edu
- Phone: 269.337.5800
Scheduled maintenance for 2020-10-01
Services to be Interrupted

Planned maintenance from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, October 1, 2020, will interrupt some services on campus. Expect a brief VPN disruption every week.
- SAP BusinessObjects WebIntelligence
The interruptions listed above are expected to require the entire maintenance window (and likely longer). 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 :
- Email: helpdesk@kzoo.edu
- Phone: 269.337.5800
Scheduled maintenance for 2020-08-20
Services to be Interrupted

Planned maintenance from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, August 20, 2020, will interrupt some services on campus. Expect a brief VPN disruption every week.
- Bookstore systems
- Computer labs: some software (MATLAB, Maple, ArcGIS, Rhino)
- Computer science systems
- Facilities Management Systems
- im.kzoo.edu “Spark Chat”
- KFiles
- listserves
- Web: blogs.kzoo.edu, campus.kzoo.edu, www.kzoo.edu, people.kzoo.edu, ems.kzoo.edu, Moodle, WordPress websites, more
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 :
- Email: helpdesk@kzoo.edu
- Phone: 269.337.5800