Blackboard Datacenter Maintenance – Friday, January 30th, 12:00am-6:00am
Blackboard Datacenter Maintenance – Service Interruption Possible On Friday, January 30th, 2015, between the hours of 12:00am to 06:00 am EDT, the Managed Hosting Infrastructure Team will perform infrastructure maintenance on the VA datacenters. UPDATE – This maintenances involves upgrading of the Managed Hosting email relay servers, thereby impacting email service during this maintenance window. As a result, email will […]
IMPORTANT – Blackboard Learn Upgrade
Blackboard will be upgraded a newer version on May 13, 2015. The Blackboard system will be unavailable during the upgrade, starting at 8:00pm on Wednesday, May 13, until 8:00pm on Thursday, May 14. This new version will be used starting with the 2015 summer semester. All previously existing courses will be kept on the system […]
SHA-2 SSL Certificate Migration – New Certificate for Production environment
Begin Time: Friday, January 9th, 2015 02:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Saturday, January 9th, 2015 03:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Renew InCommon Certificate for 3 year SHA-2 on Blackboard Production system. Each server will be rotated out of production as to not cause disruptions to our Faculty and Student community. Once the certificates are replaced we […]
Updating Turning Technologies Building Block in Blackboard
The Turning Technologies Blackboard building block will be updated Wednesday, January 7, 2015, from 1:45pm until 2:45pm. There will be a brief interruption in access to the components being updated (and any that are related to them), therefore it is recommended that you NOT submit assignments, take quizzes or enter grades during this time. Note: […]
Blackboard Components to be Updated 1/5/2015, 2am-6am
Blackboard building blocks will be updated Monday, January 5, 2015, from 2:00am until 6:00am. There will be a brief interruption in access to the components being updated (and any that are related to them), therefore it is recommended that you NOT submit assignments, take quizzes or enter grades during this time. Note: the Blackboard system […]
Import CAS SSL certificates on Blackboard Production
SSL certificates for CAS will be updated to SHA-2 certificates. The certificates will be changed on all individual servers as well as the Cisco ACE load balancer. As in the past the SSL Certificates will need to be applied to each Blackboard application server with a rolling restart. No downtime expected. Regards, The VCU Blackboard […]
Blackboard Notice – Installation of Cumulative Patch 5 on VCU Blackboard – COMPLETE
This update was completed at 3:00am, Monday, November 24, 2014, and the system was online and available shortly afterward. Blackboard will not be accessible during the installation of Cumulative Patch 5 starting at 2:00am on Monday, November 24, 2014 and will last approximately 4hours. This downtime is required to install Cumulative Patch 5 on our VCU […]
Blackboard Mobile Learn Maintenance – Nov 14, 7pm
Blackboard will be performing maintenance on the Mobile Learn system on Friday, November 14, 2014, at 7:00pm. The expected downtime will be 30 minutes, but could extend until 8:30pm. Mobile Learn will be unavailable during this time. Note: The Blackboard system WILL still be available during the Mobile Learn maintenance.
Blackboard Upcoming Datacenter Maintenance – Service Interruption Not Expected
Date: Friday, October 3rd, 2014 Time: 12:00 am to 06:00 am EDT Services: Clients with Server(s) at our Northern Virginia Datacenter. On Friday, October 3rd, 2014 between the hours of 12:00 am to 06:00 am EDT, the Managed Hosting Infrastructure Team will be performing an Emergency infrastructure maintenance at our VA2 datacenter. This maintenance is […]
Blackboard Upcoming Datacenter Maintenance – Service Interruption Not Expected
Date: Friday, September 26th, 2014 Time: 02:00 am to 06:00 am EDT Services: Clients with Server(s) at our Northern Virginia Datacenter. On Friday, September 26th, 2014 between the hours of 02:00 am to 06:00 am EDT, the Managed Hosting Infrastructure Team will be performing an Emergency infrastructure maintenance at our VA2 datacenter. This maintenance is not expected […]