Notices or bulletins contain important information regarding services offered by University Systems. These may include campus communications regarding changes to services or new service offerings, notification of large-scale planned outages, or recommendations on newly released software. Select any of the messages below to learn more.
Student Email accounts will be migrated to new servers on a nightly basis. Users will receive an email from University Systems notifying them of the migration the day prior to the migration of their account. The outage will typically last a few minutes for each account as it is being migrated and will not otherwise impact the user’s email service.
Tax season is among us and this is a good time to remind UVic faculty, staff and students to beware of tax scams. The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) will never send or request e-transfers of any kind, and will only send you payments by direct deposit or by cheque in the mail.
When speaking with anyone, use contact information that is available through trusted sources such as the UVic directory or official websites. Avoid replying to emails or calling phone numbers that you do not recognize.
On January 25th the University Of Victoria’s identity management system identity.uvic.ca (IIQ) will undergo an upgrade. The identity.uvic.ca (IIQ) service will be unavailable at times during the upgrade over the upgrade weekend starting at 12 noon on Friday January 25th until 6pm Saturday January 26th.
Read more: Identity management system upgrade: 12 pm Friday Jan. 25 to 6 pm Sat Jan. 26
We experienced a network issue this morning that impacted a number of online services including UVic.ca, wireless, email, Banner and CourseSpaces. The issue was resolved and services were restored but additional short interruptions may be necessary to fully stabilize services. Email may be slow to arrive due to a backlog since the outage.
To facilitate required maintenance by BCNET, all campus Internet access will interrupted for two 10-minute periods within a six hour window on Sunday, Dec 23 from 6:00 AM to 12:00PM. Services are expected to be fully restored by 12:00 PM. All online services hosted at UVic will be inaccessible from off campus for these two 10-minute periods during this window.
Read more: Planned outage of campus internet access – Dec 23
Banner Document Management (BDM) will be upgraded on Thursday Nov 29, 2018. The system will be unavailable from 6:00am until 2pm. During the upgrade, access to documents within BDM will be temporarily unavailable.
Read more: Banner Document Management Upgrade scheduled for November 29
On October 19, 2018, University Systems will be upgrading the university's central administrative system (Banner) used for student records, payroll, and finance.
Read more: Banner upgrade scheduled for the October 19-21 weekend
Cyber Security Awareness Month (CSAM) is internationally recognized during the month of October. The goal is to raise awareness of the importance of Cyber Security and to encourage the practice of good cyber safety habits.
macOS Mojave (version 10.14) is the latest release of the Apple operating system for Macintosh workstations. Until a more thorough test and review of the release version of Mojave can be performed, University Systems does not recommend upgrading to macOS Mojave.
On August 17th the University Of Victoria’s identity management system identity.uvic.ca (IIQ) will undergo an extensive upgrade. The identity.uvic.ca (IIQ) service will be unavailable at times during the upgrade over the upgrade weekend starting at 12 noon on Friday August 17th until 8am Monday August 20th.
