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Our technology advisory page provides up-to-date information about the operations of Vancouver Island University's Information Technology systems and services. Scroll down for scheduled maintenance and incident history.

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Computer Accounts and Files Operational

Email Operational

Network: Internet, Wireless, and Wired Operational

Printing Operational

Telephone System Operational

Websites and Learning Tools Operational

VIULearn (D2L) Operational

Library Services Operational

University Website (viu.ca) Operational

InVIU Operational

Student Self-service: My Student Record Operational

Administrative Systems Operational

Student Records (SRS) Operational

Financial Records System (FRS) Operational

HR/Payroll/Employee & Applicant Portal (Stargarden) Operational

Admin Systems Portal (VIUWeb) Operational

Operational

Degraded Performance

Partial Outage

Major Outage

Maintenance

Past Incidents

May 17, 2021

No incidents reported today.

May 16, 2021

No incidents reported.

May 15, 2021

No incidents reported.

May 14, 2021

No incidents reported.

May 13, 2021

Outlook Reporting Mailboxes are full

Resolved - RESOLVED- Outlook is reporting that mailboxes are full even if they are under their quota.

A Fix has been deployed on the outlook server. Should you receive a quota error message please close, and then restart Outlook.

If this fails to clear up the quota error, please contact the IT Service Desk.
May 13, 12:11 PDT

Investigating - Outlook is reporting that mailboxes are full even if they are under their quota.

Technicians are currently investigating.

Should you receive a quota error message please try closing, and then restarting Outlook. This may resolve the challenge for some employees.
If this does not resolve the challenge, please try again in an hour.

Estimated resolution time: Unknown

Next update: Noon today
May 13, 10:02 PDT

Maintenance: VIU Email Storage; No Interruption

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 13, 10:00 PDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 13, 09:30 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: VIU Email Storage. Technicians will be upgrading our default Outlook mailbox capacity to 10 Gigabytes of storage.
Level of impact: No impact expected.
Timing: 9:00am to 9:30am, Thursday, May 13.
Preparation: No preparation required. After the mailbox upgrade, you may need to close and re-open Outlook to see the new quota.
May 12, 14:50 PDT

May 12, 2021

Outlook issues impacting VIU employees

Resolved - From Microsoft:

"We've finished the deployment of our fix and we've confirmed via monitoring and user reports that the issue has been mitigated.
Users will be required to restart their applications for the changes to take effect. "

If you are still unable to see the main content of emails this morning, please close and re-open Outlook. This might need to be done twice before the body of email messages appear again.
May 12, 09:26 PDT

Identified - UPDATE from Microsoft:

They have identified the underlying cause of impact and are applying a fix. This fix will roll out incrementally over the several hours.
Please close and open outlook twice tomorrow morning - May 12, for the changes to take effect.

Until then for impacted employees, VIU webmail - mail.viu.ca , is your interim workaround.

Next update: 9:00am, Wednesday May 12
May 11, 15:57 PDT

Investigating - VIU Employees may be unable to view email message content within Outlook installed on devices.
Currently Webmail (mail.viu.ca) is working normally, and can be used as a workaround while Microsoft works on a solution.

Microsoft is aware of the incident and has technicians investigating, you can follow their updates here: https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status

Resolution time is currently unknown.

Next update: 9:00am, Wednesday May 12
May 11, 15:08 PDT

May 11, 2021

May 10, 2021

No incidents reported.

May 9, 2021

No incidents reported.

May 8, 2021

No incidents reported.

May 7, 2021

No incidents reported.

May 6, 2021

Maintenance: IT Helpdesk Client Ticket Portal; Service Interruption

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 6, 12:00 PDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 6, 11:00 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: IT Helpdesk Client Ticket Portal: https://ithelp.viu.ca
Level of impact: Service Interruption. Employees will be unable to access the IT Helpdesk Client Portal to check the status of their IT requests during the maintenance window.
Timing: 11am to 12pm (noon), Thursday, May 6.
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 5, 14:39 PDT

Maintenance: CIEL Client Ticket Portal; Service Interruption

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 6, 10:30 PDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 6, 09:30 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: CIEL Client Ticket Portal: learnsupport.viu.ca
Level of impact: Service Interruption. Employees will be unable to access the CIEL Client Ticket Portal to check the status of their requests during the maintenance window.
Timing: 9:30am to 10:30am, Wednesday, August 9.
Preparation: Please do not access https://learnsupport.viu.ca/ during the maintenance window. You can continue sending e-mails to learnsupport@viu.ca during the maintenance window and they will automatically be processed once we are done.
May 5, 14:41 PDT

May 5, 2021

Maintenance: VIU Email Service; No Interruption

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 5, 21:00 PDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 5, 19:00 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: VIU Email Services; We are updating a secondary email server.
Level of impact: No Interruption. Since this is a secondary system, there should be no interruption to our VIU Email Service.
Timing: 7pm to 9pm, Wednesday, May 5.
Preparation: None.
May 5, 14:48 PDT

Sibelius License Server is offline - Sibelius software unavailable

Resolved - Sibelius software will need be removed from VIU computers.

Students and Employees are encourage to move to Dorico software in place of Sibelius.
May 5, 15:13 PDT

Update - We are continuing to work with the vendor to find a solution.

Expected resolution time: unknown

Next update: 9:30am May 6.
May 5, 09:31 PDT

Update - VIU Technicians are continuing to work with the vendor.

Expected resolution time: unknown

Next update: 9:30am May 5.
May 4, 10:04 PDT

Investigating - Sibelius Software License Server is unavailable. Students and employees trying to use the Sibelius software on campus may receive a licensing error and the software won’t work.

VIU Technicians have reached out to the vendor for support.

Expected resolution time: unknown

Next update: 9:30am May 4.
May 3, 10:17 PDT

May 4, 2021

May 3, 2021