Weekly Tech Update: March 23, 2026
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Outage Notices
IT Work to Take Place Over Spring Break
IT Services will perform maintenance and implement changes in the computing environment between Saturday, March 21, and Saturday, March 28. Read on for dates and details.
Upcoming deadlines for IT technologies and related activities
As the Spring 2026 semester continues, there are several deadlines and important dates about which IT Services would like to remind the Miami community. These dates are fast approaching, so put the...
IT Services announces Winter Break maintenance windows
This year, as always, IT Services will be performing several upgrades and conducting routine maintenance on various systems to ensure they are ready for the return of students in January. The last ...
Network failover testing scheduled for July 19, some brief outages expected
IT Services will be doing annual network failover testing on Saturday, July 19, from 8 a.m. to noon. This testing enables IT Services to exercise the resiliency of our network systems to provide hi...
End of Life for Analog Phone System on Oxford Campus
IT Services will be migrating away from old copper cabling for our phone system on the Oxford campus south of Spring Street on July 9, starting at 8 a.m. This cabling was used for older services su...
Notice: Phishing scam about Microsoft accounts
A new phishing scam is on the prowl. Be safe!
MU-Gaming Wi-Fi Option Going Away May 23
As part of an initiative to improve the overall security, features, and performance of the Miami Wi-Fi infrastructure, IT Services will be removing the MU-Gaming option from the Miami Wi-Fi environ...
IT work to take place over Spring Break 2025
IT Services will perform maintenance and implement changes in the computing environment between Saturday, March 22, and Saturday, March 29.
Miami ID Card System Upgrade Planned for Jan. 7
Miami’s ID Card system, CS Gold, will undergo a standard point version upgrade beginning Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. The upgrade will begin at 6:30 a.m. and will last for five hours. Outages a...
IT Services announces Winter Break maintenance windows
This year, as always, IT Services will be performing several upgrades and conducting routine maintenance on various systems to ensure they are ready for the return of students in January.
MU-WIRELESS Wi-Fi Option Going Away During Winter Break
As part of an initiative to improve the overall security, features, and performance of the Miami Wi-Fi infrastructure, IT Services will be removing the MU-WIRELESS option from the Miami Wi-Fi envir...
Google Update: Pending Delete label
Beginning October 1, Miami users will start to see a new label in their Google Drive on certain files.
Upcoming maintenance: Production Oracle patching scheduled for August 19
On Monday, August 19, starting at 5 p.m., IT Services will be installing security patches to the production Oracle grid infrastructure (specifically on the databases that are on 19c). These patches...
Upcoming maintenance: Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) quarterly patching
IT Services, in coordination with our support partners at Rittman Mead, will be performing a quarterly patch update to the Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) suite, which addresses several security issu...
Upcoming maintenance: Oracle host operating system upgrades
Each night during the week of August 12 through August 16, IT Services will be upgrading the operating system of several database servers.
Current Outage: CrowdStrike bug causes Windows devices to bluescreen
This is a timeline of the communications sent to our University partners and users as we worked through Friday to mitigate the impact of the outage caused by the CrowdStrike cybersecurity software.