Scheduled - What is impacted: Cowichan Employee U Drives; These U: Drives are being migrated from a server in Cowichan to one Nanaimo.
Level of impact: Service Interruption. Cowichan Employee U Drives will be unavailable during maintenance window.
Timing: 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm, Thursday May 23.
Preparation: if your U Drive is located in Cowichan click 'Start' and 'Computer' and check if your U Drive says \\viu.int.viu.ca\users-cow (or \\eagle\), if it does then your U Drive is in Cowichan and will be affected by this change. If it says \\viu.int.viu.ca\users then your U Drive is already in Nanaimo, we still recommend you logoff at night but this change will not affect you.
May 22, 14:29 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: VIU Catering Orders Website (https://www2.viu.ca/catering/order/default.aspx)
Level of impact: Service Interruption. Website will be unavailable. We are migrating the database which will cause a 15-30 minute outage.
Timing: 3:30pm to 4:00pm, Thursday May 23.
Preparation: Do not attempt to submit any catering orders during the maintenance window.
May 22, 14:26 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: Employee and student computers;All student and staff computers at VIU will receive updates to Microsoft Office 2013 and 2016, Windows 7, Adobe Flash, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader
Level of impact: Computer restart. This update will require a reboot and you may receive a system tray message instructing you to reboot, this is normal and you should reboot your computer if so messaged.
Timing: beginning 10:00 pm Friday May 17. Continuing until all computers updated.
Preparation: Software updates can cause computers to restart. We recommend that you save and close your work at the end of every day then log off or restart your computer. Do not shut down your computer systems or they will not receive the updates. Your system may not update the first night and may update any of the following nights depending on update load.
May 15, 14:19 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: The Library Commons Student VDI Workstations. Server technicians will be upgrading the RAM in the server that hosts these workstations.
Level of impact: No Interruption. The system is designed to allow maintenance without service disruption or significant degradation.
Timing: 8:00 am to 12:00 pm, Thursday May 16.
Preparation: None required.
May 15, 14:26 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: All VIU technology including email, files, VIULearn, printing, internet, etc. A complete list of services is included below.
Level of impact: Service Interruption. All services listed will be unavailable for up to 15 minutes during the maintenance window.
Timing: Wednesday 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Description: All servers are receiving monthly updates and must be restarted.
Preparation: Please close these systems and all applications connected to these systems before 5:00pm. Do not use these systems during the maintenance period.

Services that may be unavailable for up to 15 minutes between 5:00pm to 6:30pm:
- VIU email (including Outlook, webmail and public folders)
- VIULearn online courses (D2L)
- VIU websites (including www2.viu.ca, isweb.viu.ca sites, InVIU, student pay-for-print website, web.viu.ca sites, viuresidences.ca, mala.bc.ca sites, cycec.bc.ca)
May 8, 13:05 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: All VIU technology including email, files, VIULearn, printing, internet, etc. A complete list of services is included below.
Level of impact: Service Interruption. All services listed will be unavailable for up to 15 minutes during the maintenance window.
Timing: Wednesday, 6:00am to 7:30am
Description: All servers are receiving monthly updates and must be restarted.
Preparation: Please close these systems and all applications connected to these systems before 6:00am. Do not use these systems during the maintenance period.

Services that may be unavailable for up to 15 minutes between 6:00am to 7:30am:
- Internet access on campus
- VIULearn online courses (D2L)
- Student Pay-for-Print services
- Employee and student U drives
- Department share drives
- Employee and student roaming profiles
- Website logins (including VIULearn, VIUTube, VIUBlogs, VIUSpace, InVIU, and isweb.viu.ca sites)
- VIU databases (including Raisers Edge database, Checkbox Survey, Research Office app, and AquaAssist app).
May 8, 13:00 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: A number of server based VIU services. A complete list of services is included below. A group of servers are receiving part 2 of a security patch and must be restarted.
Level of impact: Service Interruption. All services listed will be unavailable for up to 4 minutes during the maintenance window.
Timing: 6:00 am to 6:15 am Wendsday May 15.
Preparation: Please close these systems and all applications connected to these systems before 10:00 pm. Do not use these systems during the maintenance period.

Services that may be unavailable for up to 4 minutes between 6:00 am to 6:15 am:
- Deep Bay -DHCP, DNS, Print Server, Local File Server
- Cowichan DHCP server
- Cowichan Bookstore POS server
- Cowichan student U drives, profiles, shares, printer
- Cowichan Windows Deployment Server
- GIS ArCIMS Server, GIS MSSQL 2008, GIS print server
- VIU Phone Systems - Mitel VoIP Manager and Telecom related backups from Mitel/Nortel
- EagleSoft Application/Dental Database Server
- Nanaimo Student print server
- Nanaimo faculty print server
- Alertus server
- Inviu.viu.ca
- Multiplan Software for Cafeteria (Database is on a different server.
- Primary and Secondary Kantech Server - (Staggered restarts, should have no interruption in service)
- Nanaimo Bookstore POS server
- Cafeteria Inventory server
- ITC Multiplan transaction server
- Cafeteria Terminal Server for their Inventory Software
- Volonte Server for Cafeteria
- ISP Development/Terminal Server
May 14, 15:48 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: A number of server based VIU services. A complete list of services is included below. A group of servers are receiving Part 1 of a security patch and must be restarted.
Level of impact: Service Interruption. All services listed will be unavailable for up to 4 minutes during the maintenance window.
Timing: 10:00 pm to 10:15 pm Tuesday May 14.
Preparation: Please close these systems and all applications connected to these systems before 10:00 pm. Do not use these systems during the maintenance period.

Services that may be unavailable for up to 4 minutes between 10:00 pm to 10:15 pm:
- Deep Bay -DHCP, DNS, Print Server, Local File Server
- Cowichan DHCP server
- Cowichan Bookstore POS server
- Cowichan student U drives, profiles, shares, printer
- Cowichan Windows Deployment Server
- GIS ArCIMS Server, GIS MSSQL 2008, GIS print server
- VIU Phone Systems - Mitel VoIP Manager and Telecom related backups from Mitel/Nortel
- EagleSoft Application/Dental Database Server
- Nanaimo Student print server
- Nanaimo faculty print server
- Alertus server
- Inviu.viu.ca
- Multiplan Software for Cafeteria (Database is on a different server.
- Primary and Secondary Kantech Server - (Staggered restarts, should have no interruption in service)
- Nanaimo Bookstore POS server
- Cafeteria Inventory server
- ITC Multiplan transaction server
- Cafeteria Terminal Server for their Inventory Software
- Volonte Server for Cafeteria
- ISP Development/Terminal Server
May 14, 15:47 PDT