Jamie L Walden has written 22 articles

Monthly IT Maintenance – Friday, October 24

Status Update at 11:49p.m: Network maintenance has been completed. General system maintenance is expected to be completed by 3:00am. You may see a brief interruption in services until then as servers are restarted. Status Update: The maintenance for the UTC Website (Drupal) that was scheduled for this evening has been postponed until a later date.…

Blog.utc.edu Maintenance – Saturday, October 25

Maintenance Announcement Information Technology will be migrating the Blog.utc.edu WordPress websites to a new hosting environment on Saturday, October 25. What to expect: All content for the blog will be frozen on Friday, October 24 at 11:59. Any changes to content after that time will not be migrated. The blogarchive.utc.edu websites will be offline from…

Web Service Outage for Blog.utc.edu, etc.

Status Update at 11:14a.m.: Services have been restored as of 10:00a.m. and all systems are expected to be fully operational now. If you experience any issues, please let us know at https://ithelp.utc.edu. Status Update at 2:14a.m.: The campus news sites at blogarchive.utc.edu and shortened URLs that begin with go.utc will continue to remain offline this morning. We will post an…

K@te System Issues

Issue Resolved: K@te services have been restored as of end of day on Monday, October 20. Issues Reported on October 20, 2025: We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with our Learning Management System, K@TE due to the Amazon Web Services outage. Our team is in contact with our vendor, Cornerstone, and actively receiving updates on…

Canvas Issues

Status Update at 5:03 pm: Instructure is continuing to work with Amazon Web Services looking into our Canvas, Mastery Connect and other Instructure products being down Issues Reported on October 20, 2025: Due to an AWS outage today, you may see issues accessing or completing functions in Canvas. For updates visit https://status.instructure.com/

Monthly IT Maintenance – Friday, September 26 – COMPLETE

Maintenance Complete Maintenance was completed late Friday night and all systems are expected to functioning normally. If you experience any issues, please contact us at https://ithelp.utc.edu. Status Update at 12:30a.m: General system and network maintenance is expected to be completed by 3:00am. You may see a brief interruption in services until then as servers are restarted. Status…

Wireless Casting (Vivi) Issues on Apple Devices

Issue Reported on September 8, 2025: We’re aware of an issue affecting Vivi wireless casting when used with Apple computers in classrooms and conference rooms. The screen may freeze or stop updating during use. Currently, this issue appears to only affect Apple devices such as MacBooks. We’re actively investigating and have contacted Vivi support for…

Monthly IT Maintenance – Friday, July 25 -COMPLETE

Maintenance Complete Maintenance was completed late Friday night and all systems are expected to functioning normally. If you experience any issues, please contact us at https://ithelp.utc.edu. Status Update at 1:00 a.m: General system maintenance is expected to be completed by 3:00am. You may see a brief interruption in services until then as servers are restarted. Status Update…

UT CAS Authentication

Issue Resolved on July 16 at 4:40pm: UTK has resolved the problem impacting authentication to UT services via CAS. If you encounter any issues, please let us know at ithelp.utc.edu. Issue Reported on July 16 at 4:14pm: The UT CAS authentication service used for DASH, UT Vault, Password Management, and other services provided by UT…

Annual Review of Acceptable Use Policy

Beginning on July 15, 2025, you will be prompted to review and accept the University’s Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) annually to maintain access to UT technology services such as Microsoft 365. What You’ll Experience Starting on Tuesday, July 15, the next time you access a Microsoft service (Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word, etc.) you will be prompted to re-authenticate.…

IT Update: Upcoming Transition from Windows 10 to Windows 11 Operating System

Microsoft will be ending support for the Windows 10 operating system on October 14, 2025.  After that date, there will be no more security updates, feature updates, or technical support for Windows 10.  To prepare for this, Information Technology will be gradually upgrading all UTC owned Windows 10 devices to Windows 11 this year with…

2025 IT Maintenance Dates

Information Technology will be performing routine general system and web maintenance during the following dates this year.  General IT Maintenance Dates: During general maintenance all IT services, including the public UTC website services, will see an interruption of services. Maintenance will typically begin at 5:30 p.m. on Friday nights. UTC systems required for Friday night…