ITS Maintenance/Information for this week:

This is your weekly digest of system maintenance/information and downtime. All notices are also posted on the myUNBC Student Portal, our.unbc. ca for Employees, support.unbc.ca and on unbc.ca /its.  Please see one of these locations for maintenance notices.

ITS Maintenance Notice: Tuesday, August 16^th  || 9:00pm

Palo Alto Change: Updates to the firewall will require a complete Network outage of up to 4 hours.

Note: During an outage of the Firewall the network is functionally offline. All access to UNBC resources will be unavailable.

ITS Maintenance Notice: Tuesday, August 16^th  || Time: 10:30pm

Windows Workstation patching (all desktops and laptops running Windows)

• Windows Workstation Patching - Important information regarding the release and install of Software Security Updates for UNBC Workstations
• Security Updates are available to install from Tuesday, August 16^th at 12:30pm
• Please follow restart instructions prior to the Thursday, August 18^th  at 10:30pm, when restarts will occur automatically

ITS Maintenance Notice:  Wednesday, August 17^th  || Time: 10:00pm – 4:00am

SharePoint Server Maintenance: All SharePoint sites require patching and will be unavailable

• myUNBC - Student Portal
• Please note that Learn/Blackboard and UNBC Online Services can still be accessed through unbc.ca/login
• Our.unbc.ca
• Bog.unbc.ca
• Please note that this maintenance does not involve SharePoint Online (Teams/OneDrive) environments

ITS Maintenance Notice: Thursday, August 18^th  || Time: 10:00pm – 4:00am

Windows Server Maintenance

• All Windows Servers are impacted – FAST access may be intermittent during this window.

Linux Host Maintenance

• All Linux hosts are impacted – Learn access may be intermittent during this window.

ITS Maintenance Notice: Saturday, August 20^th   || 9:00am – 9:00pm

 Banner Upgrade - Systems Unavailable during this maintenance:

• Banner Admin Pages– BANPROD, BPREPROD, BQAWEEK
• UNBC Online Services (Student, Alumni and Employee)
• myUNBC Student Portal
• UNBC Password Management Services
• UNBC Online Phone List
• FAST
• Argos