Blackboard services available – Monday, 02/24 at 8:00 a.m.

Scheduled maintenance action is complete and Blackboard service is restored and available.

Thank you for your patience during this service outage.

ITS

Blackboard Maintenance Scheduled – Monday, 02/24 at 7:30 a.m.

Maintenance action on Blackboard software is planned for Monday, 02/24 starting at 7:30 a.m. This action requires taking Blackboard service off-line and will result in outage. We expect this outage to take up to 60 minutes. Please check this block for updates on this action and information on Blackboard return to service.

If you are planning to use Blackboard on Monday morning, please close your session and log out by 7:30 a.m. to avoid possible loss of work.

We sorry for the inconvenience this action may cause.

ITS

Financial Aid upgrade completed.

The upgrade of Banner Financial Aid modules has now been completed.

Financial aid upgrade in progress

The Banner Financial Aid modules are being upgraded this morning. Please be advised that you may experience unavailability during this process. A completion notice will be posted when the update has been concluded.

Spam/Fishing Email - "Irregular Login Attempts" Do Not

The latest email scam/spam to effect the University community.  Notice that it was not sent from a UDM ListServe.  One of the quickest ways to determine if an email is legit is to look at the email address that sent it.  

The ITS Department will not contact you via email for such matters.  If you are in doubt call the Help Desk or check this blog.  

Should you receive this email mark it is junk/spam and delete immediately.

UDM Blacklisted

The University’s email server appears to be blacklisted by one spam filtering site at this time.  The IT staff are working to clear our good name so that all mail will flow smoothly.

 

Blacklisting is a clear result of users given out their credentials (knowingly or unknowingly) to people who then spam many others.  Servers detect high volume coming from certain addresses and then move to block all content – whether legit or spam – from hitting their domain until action is taken to clear the issue.

 

Latest email scam to hit UDM inboxes

This email is NOT from the ITS Department.  Should you receive this email mark it is spam/junk and delete.