On Wednesday, March 30th, from 6am to 4pm, Facilities will be making changes to the cooling in our CSC server room. To limit the need for cooling in that room while the work goes on, …
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Mon, March 28, 2022 – New Default Version of R: 4.1
The default version of R is now 4.1. If you need to use the previous version, you can use the command R35 to get that. If you regularly install packages for yourself, you may need …
Monday Feb 22, 2021: Cannot Read Biostat Email Account in O365 Web Client and/or Desktop Client
When you log into the web client and click on username@biostat.wisc.edu, it sends you instead to netID@wisc.edu. For some people, the desktop client does not show the biostat account. This seems to be random. Some …
DNS outage — Resolved
DNS seems to be broken for machines inside UW. This is causing lack of connectivity for Remote Desktop, remote access, etc. We have contacted UW Network Operations Center and will post here and send an …
Outage: Mon Jan 11 2021, 9pm: File Server Service
Monday Evening we will apply security and stability patches to one of our main file servers. Your home directory and most project directories will be unavailable during this time. Time: Monday, Jan 11, 9pm, lasting …
Planned Server Maintenance 10-15-2020 from 23h00 to 00h00.
Please be aware of a planned server maintenance scheduled for Thursday, October 15, 2020 from 23h00 to 00h00. During this time, there may be several Windows Servers unavailable at brief intervals. Some of the specific …
Friday, June 26th, 2020: 8:00pm Service Outage for /z/Comp
Friday evening there will be an outage for maintenance and upgrades to our compute file server: /z/Comp/$PROJECT_NAME This outage will last from 8:00pm to 9:00pm.
Wed, March 18, 2020: Teleconferencing Difficulties
As reported by DoIT, WebEx is having intermittent issues. Here are some vendor links to check up on the status of these tools: Webex Status Zoom Status Skype Status Google’s tool suite, including Hangouts See also DoIT’s …
Tue, March 17, 2020: WiscVPN/Global Protect Issue
The background update has caused problems for some people. The recommendation is to uninstall and reinstall: Users are having issues with Global Protect upgrading in the background. The solution is to uninstall the client, login …
Monday, March 16, 2020: COVID-19 Updates
In response to the Chancellor’s telecommute recommendations, the BCG is making a few operational changes: Most BCG staff are now working from home, with a small rotation of one or two people occasionally in the …