IT Press

Blackboard will be unavailable this Sunday, June 28, from 7:00am to 9:00am. The outage is due to maintenance being performed on network firewall software.

Please call the Help Desk with questions about this or any other issue at 573-341-HELP (4357).

Due to a recent Microsoft update scheduled to install this Tuesday (June 16), some customers will experience varying delays when opening Microsoft Outlook. Outlook will present a dialog box that reads, 'Preparing Outlook for first use.' during this delay. 

This issue should be a one-time event, which will occur the first time Outlook is opened after your computer has installed the most recent round of Microsoft updates.  You should be able to use Miner Mail (http://minermail.mst.edu) during the delay to access your university email and calendars.

You can read more about the update here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969907.

Please contact the IT Help Desk at 573-341-HELP if you experience any additional problems with Microsoft Outlook.

Windows servers will be down for approximately 30 minutes for monthly updating on Thursday, June 18, between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m.

Please note: The IT maintenance window occurs every Thursday night from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. You should expect one or more IT services to be unavailable during this weekly time slot.

If you have any questions about this issue, please contact the IT Help Desk at 341-HELP (4357).

Missouri S&T IT will perform routine computer maintenance on July 8, 2009. This process will affect students who are no longer associated with Missouri S&T prior to Spring 2008, who are not taking classes or who have graduated. Students who have enrolled since Spring Semester 2008 are not subject to this maintenance. 

All accounts subject to this maintenance will be sent e-mail notifications through their Missouri S&T e-mail account, beginning on June 11. Anyone who is planning on re-enrolling for the Fall 2009 Semester but has not done so at this time will need to contact the Help Desk.

Students accounts no longer in active status will return to the UM System pool to allow the student continued access to Joe'SS. E-mail and local network file storage associated with the account will not be retained.

For more information, or to notify IT of your re-enrollment plans, please contact the IT Help Desk at 573-341-HELP. 

On the evening of June 12, courses in Blackboard from Spring Semester 2009 will become unavailable to students. If they choose, instructors will be able to make courses available again on a course-by-course basis by using the course control panel.

If you have any questions about this issue, please contact the IT Help Desk at 573-341-HELP.

Due to maintenance being performed during a normal change window, most itweb applications will be unavailable for about three hours, between 8:00am and 12:00pm, this Saturday, June 13.

For more information about this issue, please contact the Help Desk by calling (573) 341-HELP.

Exchange mailboxes for about 10% of the campus population will be unavailable tonight during the normal maintenance window, which lasts from 10:00pm until 2:00am.

If there are any questions regarding this issue, please contact the Help Desk by calling (573) 341-HELP.  

Blackboard will be unavailable between 5:30pm and 10:00pm on Friday, June 12, during the regularly scheduled maintenance window. System administrators will be applying patches during this outage.

For more information, please contact the Help Desk at (573) 341-HELP.

IT would like to remind everyone that our typical maintenance window is every Thursday from 10:00pm until 2:00am. We will potentially be seeing an interruption of services during this timeframe on Thursday, May 28. We will endeavor to communicate details about any changes that will have a significant impact on the campus community. 

Please call the Help Desk with questions about this or any other issue at 573-341-HELP (4357).