Planned Maintenance News Archive

On Saturday, December 17th Marshall University Information Technology will be testing our disaster recovery plan to ensure our ability to continue to work in the case of a catastrophic failure.  Testing will begin at 7:00 a.m. The only services available during the testing will be:  Banner, Internet (including 0365), and WiFi services.  The test is

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

Banner and related services will be unavailable this weekend (2/11-2/12) for planned maintenance.

Marshall University Information Technology schedules a weekly maintenance window on Sundays from 4am to 1pm Eastern time. On Memorial Day weekend, our maintenance window will be extended to 5:00 pm Friday May 28th – to 11:59 pm on Monday, May 31st, 2021.  This yearly maintenance outage is listed as “University Computer Services Unavailable” on the

Marshall University Information Technology will be migrating itservicestatus to a new webserver this coming Sunday, February 16th, 2020 from 4:00 am to approximately 10:00 am. There will be no downtime involved, however we will need to freeze any updates / changes during that window. Once the migration is complete updates can be once again made

On Sunday morning, July 7th, during the maintenance window, MUIT will be enabling MFA on our Virtual Private Network (VPN) service.   Our records show you have enrolled in MFA.  Great Job!  You can now experience VPN with MFA as an early adopter by selecting “MU_Remote_AccessTest” from the dropdown list. Instructions for early adoption are

The Division of Information Technology will be performing upgrades on the data center network switches to correct a software defect on Saturday August  25th  from 12:00am – 1:00am.  During this time there will be intermittent outages of all voice, video and data applications.  If you have questions or concerns about the timeline, please contact the

As of now, 99% of the WiFi network has been restored.  The 1% of access points remaining offline are located in multiple buildings across campus and are in areas where additional WiFi coverage exists or are in a physical location that is not immediately accessible.  We are continuing to work to get 100% coverage very soon. 

Housing and Residence Life is currently working with Marshall University Information Technology (IT) in an effort to expand and strengthen the Wi-Fi coverage in the residence halls.  We have ordered new equipment, which we will begin installing in student rooms later this month.  This equipment will provide each residence hall room with its own in-room

Marshall University will be conducting a test of the MU Alert emergency messaging system on Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 10 a.m.. This is an opt-in service available to MU community members. Subscribers are asked to be sure they receive a message by noon on Wednesday, and if necessary update their contact information via the