Information Technology Advisory
Maintenance: Network and Internet Services; Service Interruption
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 14, 2026 - 06:00 PDT
Scheduled - What is impacted: Network/Internet connectivity on all VIU campuses, VIU Data Center Access, Shared Drive Access.
Level of impact: Service Interruption. Internet and VIU network connectivity may be unavailable or inconsistent for up to two (2) minutes during the maintenance window. This effects all sites/campuses and impacts services such as VPN connections, Network share drive access, Teams Calling, web browsing, etc..
Timing: 6 am to 7 am, Thursday, May 14.
Preparation: Please save any shared folder data or remote files you may be working on prior to the 06:00am window.
May 14, 2026 06:00-07:00 PDT

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Computer Accounts and Files Operational
Email Operational
Network: Internet, Wireless, and Wired Under Maintenance
Printing Operational
Telephone System Operational
Websites and Learning Tools Operational
VIULearn (D2L) Operational
Library Services Operational
University Website (viu.ca) Operational
Student Self-service: My Student Record Operational
Administrative Systems Operational
Student Records (SRS) Operational
Financial Records System (FRS) Operational
Employee Portal (FRIS, HRIS, Payroll, Etc) Operational
Admin Systems Portal (VIUWeb) Operational
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Maintenance

Scheduled Maintenance

Weekly Maintenance: Administrative Tools; No Service Interruption May 14, 2026 09:00-17:00 PDT

What is impacted: Our applications team are deploying semi-weekly updates to the following tools/applications:
- Building Inventory System (BIS)
- Key Request application
- Lockers application
Level of impact: No Interruption. These updates will occur in the background and should not interrupt your work.
Timing: 9 am to 5 pm, every Tuesday and Thursday.
Preparation: None
Posted on May 06, 2026 - 13:50 PDT

Weekly Maintenance: IT Client and Ticket Portals; Service Interruption May 15, 2026 21:00 - May 16, 2026 00:00 PDT

What is impacted: IT Client and Ticket Portals; Every Friday our vendor performs maintenance on the servers hosting the IT Ticket System (https://ithelp.viu.ca) and the IT Client Portal (https://technology.viu.ca).
Level of impact: Service Interruption. Employees will be unable to access the above sites/services during the maintenance window.
Timing: 9pm to 12:00 am, every Friday.
Preparation: None required. If you need to submit an IT Request during the maintenance window please e-mail ithelp@viu.ca. Once the maintenance is complete, an IT request will automatically be created based on your e-mail and you will be e-mailed a ticket number.
Posted on Apr 01, 2026 - 10:27 PDT

Weekly Maintenance: Administrative Tools; No Service Interruption May 19, 2026 09:00-17:00 PDT

What is impacted: Our applications team are deploying semi-weekly updates to the following tools/applications:
- Building Inventory System (BIS)
- Key Request application
- Lockers application
Level of impact: No Interruption. These updates will occur in the background and should not interrupt your work.
Timing: 9 am to 5 pm, every Tuesday and Thursday.
Preparation: None
Posted on May 13, 2026 - 10:17 PDT

Weekly Maintenance: VIU Websites; No Service Interruption May 19, 2026 10:00-15:00 PDT

What is impacted: VIU Websites. Our Web team performs updates to our Drupal Web Content Management System.
Level of impact: No Interruption. While no outage is expected, saving content during this timeframe within the Drupal platform may be slower.
Timing: 10am to 3pm, every Tuesday.
Preparation: None
Posted on May 13, 2026 - 10:15 PDT

Weekly Maintenance: Administrative Tools; No Service Interruption May 21, 2026 09:00-17:00 PDT

What is impacted: Our applications team are deploying semi-weekly updates to the following tools/applications:
- Building Inventory System (BIS)
- Key Request application
- Lockers application
Level of impact: No Interruption. These updates will occur in the background and should not interrupt your work.
Timing: 9 am to 5 pm, every Tuesday and Thursday.
Preparation: None
Posted on May 13, 2026 - 10:18 PDT

Weekly Maintenance: IT Client and Ticket Portals; Service Interruption May 22, 2026 21:00 - May 23, 2026 00:00 PDT

What is impacted: IT Client and Ticket Portals; Every Friday our vendor performs maintenance on the servers hosting the IT Ticket System (https://ithelp.viu.ca) and the IT Client Portal (https://technology.viu.ca).
Level of impact: Service Interruption. Employees will be unable to access the above sites/services during the maintenance window.
Timing: 9pm to 12:00 am, every Friday.
Preparation: None required. If you need to submit an IT Request during the maintenance window please e-mail ithelp@viu.ca. Once the maintenance is complete, an IT request will automatically be created based on your e-mail and you will be e-mailed a ticket number.
Posted on May 13, 2026 - 10:14 PDT

Weekly Maintenance: Administrative Tools; No Service Interruption May 26, 2026 09:00-17:00 PDT

What is impacted: Our applications team are deploying semi-weekly updates to the following tools/applications:
- Building Inventory System (BIS)
- Key Request application
- Lockers application
Level of impact: No Interruption. These updates will occur in the background and should not interrupt your work.
Timing: 9 am to 5 pm, every Tuesday and Thursday.
Preparation: None
Posted on May 13, 2026 - 10:18 PDT

Weekly Maintenance: VIU Websites; No Service Interruption May 26, 2026 10:00-15:00 PDT

What is impacted: VIU Websites. Our Web team performs updates to our Drupal Web Content Management System.
Level of impact: No Interruption. While no outage is expected, saving content during this timeframe within the Drupal platform may be slower.
Timing: 10am to 3pm, every Tuesday.
Preparation: None
Posted on May 13, 2026 - 10:21 PDT

Weekly Maintenance: Administrative Tools; No Service Interruption May 28, 2026 09:00-17:00 PDT

What is impacted: Our applications team are deploying semi-weekly updates to the following tools/applications:
- Building Inventory System (BIS)
- Key Request application
- Lockers application
Level of impact: No Interruption. These updates will occur in the background and should not interrupt your work.
Timing: 9 am to 5 pm, every Tuesday and Thursday.
Preparation: None
Posted on May 13, 2026 - 10:24 PDT

Weekly Maintenance: IT Client and Ticket Portals; Service Interruption May 29, 2026 21:00 - May 30, 2026 00:00 PDT

What is impacted: IT Client and Ticket Portals; Every Friday our vendor performs maintenance on the servers hosting the IT Ticket System (https://ithelp.viu.ca) and the IT Client Portal (https://technology.viu.ca).
Level of impact: Service Interruption. Employees will be unable to access the above sites/services during the maintenance window.
Timing: 9pm to 12:00 am, every Friday.
Preparation: None required. If you need to submit an IT Request during the maintenance window please e-mail ithelp@viu.ca. Once the maintenance is complete, an IT request will automatically be created based on your e-mail and you will be e-mailed a ticket number.
Posted on May 13, 2026 - 10:22 PDT
May 14, 2026

Unresolved incident: Maintenance: Network and Internet Services; Service Interruption.

May 13, 2026
Maintenance: Server Restarts; Service Interruption impacting employees and students
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 13, 19:00 PDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 13, 17:00 PDT
Scheduled - Description: Several systems that host VIU sites and services are receiving monthly updates.
Level of impact: Service Interruption. Once updated, each system will need to be restarted. All sites and services listed below will be unavailable for up to 15 minutes during the maintenance window.
- VIU email (including Outlook, webmail and public folders)
- VIU websites (including isapp.viu.ca sites, stuweb.viu.ca)
Timing: Wednesday, 5 pm to 7 pm
Preparation: Please close these systems and all applications connected to these systems before 5 pm. Do not use these systems during the maintenance period.
May 6, 13:47 PDT
Maintenance: Network and Internet Services; Service Interruption
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 13, 17:30 PDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 13, 17:01 PDT
Scheduled - What is impacted: Our internet service provider is upgrading some of their core network hardware. When they take this component offline to be replaced, our internet connection automatically switches to an alternate path. However there is a service interruption while it does this.
Level of impact: Service interruption. There will be a 15 minute interruption to VIU Internet access during the maintenance window. This will impact VPN connections, remote device access, Teams calling/meetings, and access to tools/data hosted in our onsite data center.
Timing: 5 pm to 5:30 pm, Wednesday, May 13.
Preparation: Complete Teams calls/meetings, data transfers, email send/receive prior to the maintenance window.
May 13, 10:43 PDT
Maintenance: Server Restarts; Service Interruption impacting employees and students
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 13, 08:00 PDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 13, 06:00 PDT
Scheduled - Description: Several systems that host VIU sites and services are receiving monthly updates.
Impact: Service Interruption. Once updated, each system will need to be restarted. All sites and services listed below will be unavailable for up to 15 minutes during the maintenance window.
- Internet access on campus
- VIULearn online courses (D2L)
- Student and Employee Printing
- Employee and Student U Drives, My Documents and Desktop Files
- Department Share Drives
- Website logins (including VIULearn, VIUTube, VIUBlogs, VIUSpace, Unit4/UBW, and isapp.viu.ca sites)
- VIU databases (including Checkbox Survey, Research Office app, StarRez, Tableau)
Timing: Wednesday, 6 am to 8 am
Preparation: Please close these systems and all applications connected to these systems before 6 am. Do not use these systems during the maintenance period.
May 6, 13:46 PDT
May 12, 2026
Weekly Maintenance: Administrative Tools; No Service Interruption
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 12, 17:00 PDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 12, 09:00 PDT
Scheduled - What is impacted: Our applications team are deploying semi-weekly updates to the following tools/applications:
- Building Inventory System (BIS)
- Key Request application
- Lockers application
Level of impact: No Interruption. These updates will occur in the background and should not interrupt your work.
Timing: 9 am to 5 pm, every Tuesday and Thursday.
Preparation: None
May 6, 13:49 PDT
Weekly Maintenance: VIU Websites; No Service Interruption
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 12, 15:00 PDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 12, 10:00 PDT
Scheduled - What is impacted: VIU Websites. Our Web team performs updates to our Drupal Web Content Management System.
Level of impact: No Interruption. While no outage is expected, saving content during this timeframe within the Drupal platform may be slower.
Timing: 10am to 3pm, every Tuesday.
Preparation: None
May 6, 13:48 PDT
May 11, 2026
Maintenance: IT Service Desk Closed for Training; Service Interruption
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 11, 15:52 PDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 11, 08:22 PDT
Scheduled - What is impacted: The IT Service desk will be closed today, while the IT Department is attending an all day training session.
Level of impact: Service Interruption. We will not be answering phones, replying to emails or working on tickets today.
Timing: Monday, May 11, 8 am to 4:30 pm
Preparation: Please check our knowledge base articles and guides found at technology.viu.ca. If you have a matter that requires urgent attention, please email us and include "Urgent" at the start of the subject line.
May 11, 08:21 PDT
May 10, 2026

No incidents reported.

May 9, 2026
Weekly Maintenance: IT Client and Ticket Portals; Service Interruption
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 9, 00:00 PDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 8, 21:00 PDT
Scheduled - What is impacted: IT Client and Ticket Portals; Every Friday our vendor performs maintenance on the servers hosting the IT Ticket System (https://ithelp.viu.ca) and the IT Client Portal (https://technology.viu.ca).
Level of impact: Service Interruption. Employees will be unable to access the above sites/services during the maintenance window.
Timing: 9pm to 12:00 am, every Friday.
Preparation: None required. If you need to submit an IT Request during the maintenance window please e-mail ithelp@viu.ca. Once the maintenance is complete, an IT request will automatically be created based on your e-mail and you will be e-mailed a ticket number.
May 6, 13:48 PDT
May 8, 2026
May 7, 2026
Maintenance: Network and Internet Services; Service Interruption
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 7, 07:00 PDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 7, 06:00 PDT
Scheduled - What is impacted: Network/Internet connectivity on all VIU campuses, VIU Data Center Access, Shared Drive Access.
Level of impact: Service Interruption. Internet and VIU network connectivity may be unavailable or inconsistent for up to two (2) minutes during the maintenance window. This effects all sites/campuses and impacts services such as VPN connections, Network share drive access, Teams Calling, web browsing, etc..
Timing: 6 am to 7 am, Thursday, May 7.
Preparation: Please save any shared folder data or remote files you may be working on prior to the 06:00am window.
May 6, 12:45 PDT
May 6, 2026

No incidents reported.

May 5, 2026

No incidents reported.

May 4, 2026

No incidents reported.

May 3, 2026

No incidents reported.

May 2, 2026
Maintenance: Windows time zone reset; Service Change
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 2, 18:00 PDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Apr 30, 18:00 PDT
Scheduled - What is impacted: Due to an upcoming Windows security update, we are resetting the time zone on VIU Windows devices to Pacific Daylight Time. (PDT) 
Level of impact: Service change; Student facing devices will be locked to PDT. Employees who have previously changed the time zone on their devices will find it changed to PDT. If needed they can change the time zone back to their preferred one. 
Timing: Thursday, April 30, beginning at 6 pm. Continuing until all devices are updated.
Preparation: If you keep your VIU employee device set to a different time zone, keep an eye out for it to change. Then switch it back to the one you were using previously.
Apr 29, 12:21 PDT
Maintenance: Windows Security Updates; Device Restart Required
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 2, 18:00 PDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Apr 30, 18:00 PDT
Scheduled - What is impacted: We are deploying a significant Windows Security update. This update replaces key security files that are set to expire on June 26, 2026.
Level of impact: Device Restart Required; This update deploys in the background, and requires multiple restarts to complete. It will not force you to restart your device. We recommend saving your work and restarting your device once a week between now and June 26.
Timing: Thursday, April 30, beginning at 6 pm. Continuing until all devices are updated.
Preparation: You may find a particular day or time works best with your workflow for restarting your device. We suggest setting a weekly calendar reminder for that time, so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle.
Apr 29, 12:24 PDT
May 1, 2026
Weekly Maintenance: IT Client and Ticket Portals; Service Interruption
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 1, 13:23 PDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 1, 10:23 PDT
Scheduled - What is impacted: IT Client and Ticket Portals; Every Friday our vendor performs maintenance on the servers hosting the IT Ticket System (https://ithelp.viu.ca) and the IT Client Portal (https://technology.viu.ca).
Level of impact: Service Interruption. Employees will be unable to access the above sites/services during the maintenance window.
Timing: 9pm to 12:00 am, every Friday.
Preparation: None required. If you need to submit an IT Request during the maintenance window please e-mail ithelp@viu.ca. Once the maintenance is complete, an IT request will automatically be created based on your e-mail and you will be e-mailed a ticket number.
Apr 1, 10:24 PDT
Apr 30, 2026
Weekly Maintenance: Administrative Tools; No Service Interruption
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Apr 30, 17:00 PDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Apr 30, 09:00 PDT
Scheduled - What is impacted: Our applications team are deploying semi-weekly updates to the following tools/applications:
- Building Inventory System (BIS)
- Key Request application
- Lockers application
Level of impact: No Interruption. These updates will occur in the background and should not interrupt your work.
Timing: 9 am to 5 pm, every Tuesday and Thursday.
Preparation: None
Apr 15, 12:12 PDT
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