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February 29 – West Campus Data Center Fire Alarm Testing
In coordination with WUSTL Facilities, we will be implementing new fire alarm matrix changes to properly align the fire alarm with the data center guidelines to prevent future issues triggered by the fire alarm system. Data center tenants and service owners are not anticipated to see any impact from this change, however, there is a […]
February 26: WUIS1210 and WUIS1211 File Server Patching
Washington University Information Technology will perform maintenance on the \\severs.aams.wustl.edu file share (WUIS1210 and WUIS1211) which houses your personal and shared drives, adding software patches to facilitate improved service, which will cause these file servers to be unavailable for approximately 4 hours on Wednesday, February 26, between 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Action Please save […]
February 20 – Unplanned Outage: Epic via Citrix Desktop
Washington University Information Technology has detected an issue where EPIC is currently unavailable via the Citrix desktop affecting Citrix users. We have found that the below steps usually corrects this issue. Reboot the affected computer Wait approximately 2 minutes before logging into your Citrix desktop If this reboot does not successfully correct this issue please […]
WashU IT Lowers WashU’s Carbon Footprint
Submitted by Rob Schimdt People groan when they hear that IT needs to upgrade the hardware that their application is running on. Other than having their application run a little faster, what gains should they expect from hours of testing and possible downtime during the upgrade? Not too surprisingly- a lot! Starting the project in […]
MyDay Mentor Network
Submitted by Jennie Franke As some of you know, we are in the process of replacing our aging HR and Finance systems (HRMS and FIS) with a single, integrated, cloud-based system called Workday. The Workday implementation is part of a larger university-wide program called MyDay, which will help advance the way we operate by providing […]
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