Scheduled - What is impacted: VIU employee Print Requisition System and Budsal (web applications).
Level of impact: Service interruption. The above services will be unavailable during the maintenance window.
Timing: 10:00 am to 10:30 am, Monday April 16
Preparation: Avoid using the above services during the maintenance window.
Apr 11, 16:05 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: Cowichan campus student computer accounts and files.
Level of impact: Service interruption. The above services will be unavailable during the maintenance window.
Timing: 10:00 am to 10:00 pm, Sunday April 15.
Preparation: If you are a student and your primary campus is the Cowichan Campus do not log on/off a VIU computer during the maintenance window. After the maintenance window, if students have any issues accessing Shares, U Drives or Printers, please reboot your computer before contacting the IT Helpdesk.
Apr 11, 16:03 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: Cowichan campus employee computer accounts, share drives, U drives, and employee printing.
Level of impact: Service interruption. The above services will be unavailable during the maintenance window.
Timing: 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm, Saturday April 14.
Preparation: Please log off your computer at the end of your day on Friday or Saturday. Do not log on/off a VIU computer during the maintenance window. After the maintenance window, if you have any issues accessing Shares, U Drives or Printers, please reboot your computer before contacting the IT Helpdesk.
Apr 11, 15:59 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)
Apr 4, 15:47 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, Mediawiki, VIUSpace, InVIU, and isweb.viu.ca sites)
- VIU databases (including Raisers Edge database, Checkbox Survey, Research Office app, and AquaAssist app).
Apr 4, 15:47 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: Employee and student computers; upgrading software.
Level of impact: No Interruption. Installations will only occur during maintenance windows. The installations will not restart computers.
Timing: beginning 10:00 pm to 6:30 am, Friday March 23. Continuing for up to 2 weeks until all computers updated.
Preparation: Please save your work and log off your systems at the end of every work day. Do not shut down your systems or they will not receive the update.
Mar 21, 14:30 PDT