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LDAP-Master and Webadmin downtime on 12/22

On Thursday, December 22nd starting at 2pm LDAP-Master and Webadmin will be taken down for system maintenance. During this time account creations and password changes will be unavailable. ...

December 14, 2016 · 11:01 AM

Using Blackboard to Leverage Lynda.com

Assign, Evaluate Prerequisite Skills with Adaptive Release

As announced earlier this semester, DoIT and Visual Arts have partnered on a one-year license to Lynda.com, the popular online software training platform. However, short of simply recommending...

December 6, 2016 · 4:41 PM

Joe Kirby Honored for 30 Years of Service

16 DoIT Staff Honored at UMBC Service Awards Tomorrow

Update: See Joe's UMBC Digital Story at https://youtu.be/Q2cGLtJfxjk While many have contributed to UMBC's 50 years of excellence, tomorrow the campus will recognize 30 years of service by...

December 6, 2016 · 2:27 PM

DoIT's Technology Support Center Hiring for Winter & Spring

Are you looking for an on campus job? Come work for us!

The DoIT Technology Support Center is looking to hire additional consultants to work during the Winter and Spring. Please see our job description below and visit our job posting on UMBCWorks to...

November 30, 2016 · 8:06 AM

Connectivity between UMBC and Comcast restored

After working on the issue throughout the day yesterday and today, the network team was able to get service restored between UMBC and Comcast late this afternoon around 5:00pm. All of the campus...

November 21, 2016 · 9:35 PM

Connectivity problems between Comcast and UMBC

Throughout the day Sunday November 20th there have been intermittent connectivity problems for users with Comcast Xfinity network services when trying to reach Services within UMBC such as myUMBC...

November 21, 2016 · 12:16 AM

New Critical Linux Vulnerability Effects Most Systems

A new vulnerability dubbed DirtyCow should be patched asap

I'm not going to pretend I understand the naming for this bug, but this new vulnerability is very serious, one of the most serious in years, and should be addressed immediately. This exploit,...

October 27, 2016 · 12:48 PM

Deadline for Spring Semester Software Requests is Oct 31st

Submit your new software requests now!

Please be aware that software installation requests for DoITs Spring semester lab images are due on October 31st. Any software requests submitted after this deadline will not be installed in DoIT...

October 26, 2016 · 2:19 PM

Issues connecting to Box and other websites Friday Oct 21st

Beginning early this morning, there has been a widespread denial of service attack against one of the Internet domain name providers. This attack has been affecting many sites and services on the...

October 21, 2016 · 2:39 PM

Lunch and Learn With Request Tracker Features Huge Turnout

Users group learns of new features and effective practices

In early October, the Request Tracker (RT) users group met in the newly renovated Engineering Room 023 for an informative session on RT’s upcoming features and overall integration within UMBC....

October 17, 2016 · 12:38 PM

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