Communications News Archive

Marshall University Information Technology will retire the legacy MILO service (a.k.a. Self-Service Banner 8) on Monday, October 28, 2024. Students, faculty, and staff will continue to have access to MILO (a.k.a. Self-Service Banner 9) from the MyMU portal. Students will see a new interface when accessing the Proxy Management service within MILO, which allows them

AT&T will be on-site Tuesday evening, August 20th to continue the upgrade to the service tower on Holderby Hall. Service will be degraded until completion on the evening of Tuesday the 20th from 11 P.M. until Wednesday the 21st at 6 A.M. We appreciate your patience and assistance during this critical effort.

Marshall University Information Technology (MUIT) is thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of our brand new myMU portal, designed to enhance your experience accessing information at the university. Prior to launch, we wanted to share exciting details with you. Explore the new myMU Portal with us! – Open to ALL Students, Faculty, and Staff To

On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 9:00 am, during Information Technology’s normally scheduled maintenance window, IT will be performing a network failover test.  There will likely be a temporary outage of many of our IT services during this failover test.  We will be using the test results to help improve our network and datacenter resiliency

[STATUS UPDATE]: The underlying issue has been resolved. AWS continue to work on a fix for the individual service. For more details please see https://status.aws.amazon.com/     Marshall University Blackboard courses, organizations, and tools is currently experiencing a service outage. There is an Amazon Web Services outage that is currently affecting access to Blackboard courses,

Today, September 2nd, 2021, at approximately 5 AM Marshall University Information Technology lost connection to a Virtual Server (an ESX host) that took down several services in the MUIT data center including Banner, Degree Works, File Box and others.  The MUIT Systems team is currently assessing the situation and will provide our Applications team a

Level of impact:  Medium  Marshall University Information Technology is planning to decommission our On-Premise SharePoint 2013 environment at the end of the year 2021. Existing sites will need to be migrated to avoid losing access and data.  Who does it affect? If you are receiving this message, you have been identified as an administrator of a SharePoint site in

Marshall’s contract with Blackboard Collaborate Ultra will not be renewed after July 1, 2021. You have been identified as a user who has engaged as a moderator during this summer so far. All summer courses will have access to the Collaborate tool through the end of all summer terms. Important:  All Collaborate recordings will be

Update:  02/05/21 On Sunday morning, February 7th, 2021, MUIT will switch to the new 903 prefix on newly generated ID numbers.   Any students admitted or employees hired after the change will have the new prefix.  No existing Student ID or Employee ID numbers will be changing. From Sunday moving forward, try to refrain from asking for

Important update for all active Marshall University e-mail accountholders including students, faculty, staff (MU, SOM, and Marshall Health) and Alumni. Marshall University Information Technology will introduce an updated e-mail security solution provided by Microsoft in January 2021.  In addition to anti-virus and anti-spam protection, the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 service improves security for both incoming and outgoing email. This