Alerts

Service Advisory: Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac & Trend Micro Internet Security for Windows [UPDATE]

  Service Advisory   Please share the following with your teams.   The consumer versions of Trend Micro Antivirus is typically installed on personal owned computers running Mac OS and Windows.   On September 1, 2021:   Students can request a 1-yr license subscription code, at no cost from https://www.yorku.ca/uit/student-services/your-york-computer/protecting-your-computing-devices/antivirus-software/ Faculty & Staff can request […]

Service Bulletin: Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac & Trend Micro Internet Security for Windows [UPDATE]

  Service Bulletin     Please share the following with your teams.   As of September 1, 2021:   Students can request a 1-yr license subscription code, at no cost from https://www.yorku.ca/uit/student-services/your-york-computer/protecting-your-computing-devices/antivirus-software/ Faculty & Staff can request a 1-yr license subscription code, at no cost from https://www.yorku.ca/uit/faculty-staff-services/your-york-computer/protecting-your-computing-devices/antivirus-software/   We thank you for your continued cooperation […]

Service Advisory: Scheduled maintenance - FAS storage services, Thursday August 5, 2021 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. [REVISED]

  Service Advisory   Upon further feedback and testing with our partners, we have critical services that continue to rely on SMB 2.x.   Our revised notice is now: Please share the following with your teams.  On Thursday August 5th, 2021 between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m., UIT teams will perform maintenance on FAS storage […]

Service Advisory: Scheduled maintenance - FAS storage services, Thursday August 5, 2021 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.

  Service Advisory   Please share the following with your teams.  On Thursday August 5th, 2021 between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m., UIT teams will perform maintenance on FAS storage services. UIT is retiring support for legacy SMB client protocols 1.x and 2.x.   The maintenance will improve service performance and reliability when connecting to […]

Service Advisory: [UPDATE] Re-enablement of Central Print Services, Friday July 16, 2021

  Service Advisory   Please share the following information with your teams.  The central print services have been re-enabled and are now servicing all print queues for academic and administrative support areas.   We apologize for inconveniences caused and thank you for your continued cooperation and understanding.   Please direct any questions or concerns to […]

Service Advisory: Re-enablement of Central Print Services, Friday July 16, 2021

  Service Advisory   Central print services remain unavailable following a critical service vulnerability, https://infosec.yorku.ca/2021/07/advisory-notice-critical-windows-vulnerability-printnightmare/.   UIT teams have been working diligently to address this risk.   We are completing a final review today and we will advise the community when central print services are re-enabled tomorrow, Friday July 16, 2021.   We apologize for […]

Service Advisory: Service Advisory: Maximo scheduled maintenance and outage Saturday July 10th from 8:30 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.

  Service Advisory   Please share this information with your teams.  Scheduled server maintenance is taking place on Maximo to install WebSphere Patch 9.0.5.7 on Saturday, July 10th from 8:30 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.  Access to the Maximo System will not be available during this maintenance window.      We apologize for any inconvenience this scheduled […]

Service Advisory: Scheduled VPN maintenance - Monday July 26, 2021 from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.

  Service Advisory   Please share the following with your teams.  UIT will be upgrading the VPN server software on Monday July 26th from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.   There will be an expected 15 minutes outage of all VPN services during the scheduled maintenance window.   We apologize for any inconvenience this may […]

Service Advisory: Central Endpoint Protection Service scheduled maintenance Thursday July 8, 2021 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

  Service Advisory   Please share this information with your teams.  Scheduled maintenance will take place on the Central Endpoint Protection Service with TrendMicro on Thursday July 8th, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.  The service maintenance is necessary to install a critical patch from the vendor.    University computer assets that have the enterprise […]

Service Bulletin: Central Software License Manager - CATALYST Professional and PCI Geomatica - July 7, 2021

  Service Bulletin   Please share the following information with your teams. The central license manager was updated to service floating licenses for CATALYST Professional and earlier releases of the PCI GEOMATICA product v2016-2019. Licenses are now valid until July 6, 2022.   Please direct any questions or concerns to UIT Client Services.   Email:  […]