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.
To facilitate equipment modernization, all campus internet access will be interrupted for a two hour period beginning Saturday July 9 at 11:00PM PDT. Services will be fully restored by 1:00AM PDT July 10. All UVic online services will be unavailable from on and off campus during this maintenance window.
Read more: Planned outage of campus internet access July 9 -10
We’re excited to announce that Microsoft 365 accounts will be provisioned for all students by September 2022. The Microsoft 365 collaboration suite will give you access to Microsoft Office, including Microsoft Teams for courses or clubs, OneDrive to store or share coursework, and a feature-packed email service. As part of these changes, Microsoft 365 email for students will become the email service provider for all students and your UVic email will be automatically upgraded by September 2022.
We are upgrading our Exchange email server in order to better serve UVic faculty and staff. University Systems will start upgrading email accounts on June 1, 2022. This migration process will run until August 2022 to reduce impact on faculty and staff. The migrations are scheduled outside of regular business hours.
Beginning May 15, 2022, UVic MFA will be required in order to access critical information systems including Banner Admin Pages, FAST, and Exchange email & calendar, and the Virtual Private Network (VPN).
Read more: UVic MFA will be required on May 15 for critical systems
To better protect your NetLink account and enhance secure access to the campus network, University Systems will be adding support for UVic Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to the Virtual Private Network (VPN) service.
University Systems will be changing the login process for UVic’s Outlook Web Access for Exchange email effective January 31, 2022.
University Systems will be upgrading the Spectrum Protect (formerly TSM) backup server to a new version. This version will require all users of the Spectrum Protect backup service to be running client version 8.1 or newer to maintain compatibility with the service. We recommend Spectrum Protection version 8.1.13.2 for Windows and version 8.1.13.0 for Mac.
Zoom regularly releases new versions of the Zoom Client to add features, resolve issues, and patch security vulnerabilities. To ensure you are protected against vulnerabilities in the Zoom Client and can use the latest features of Zoom in your online meetings, UVic will be implementing a minimum version requirement of 5.8.4 for all UVic Zoom accounts on December 22, 2021.
UVic Multi-Factor Authentication (UVic MFA) is a new security feature to protect accounts now available for all students, staff and faculty.
Read more: UVic Multi-Factor Authentication (UVic MFA) is now available
Until a more thorough test and review of the release version of Windows 11 can be performed to ensure compatibility with UVic specific applications and services, University Systems does not recommend upgrading to Windows 11 at this time.
