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Planned Computer Center Power Outage December 26-27
An emergency power generator will be installed in the Computer Center on December 26 and 27. This means that many computer and network resources to the campus will not be available during this time. Once complete, these important services will be protected from future power failure events. Desktop and laboratory computers operating as stand-alone devices outside the Computer Center will not be effected. Users may be surprised at the number of services that will not be available. The services we know will be affected include:

1. The entire campus wired and wireless networks.

2. Electronic mail (mail forwarded from binghamton.edu accounts to external mail servers will not be forwarded).

3. Blackboard.

4. All Binghamton administrative applications (Oracle HR and Finance, Banner and CICS applications).

5. Pharos print system in Pods and Information Commons.

6. Software that requires access to a license manager (Matlab, ANSYS, Fluent, Solid Edge).

7. Kronos and the Card Access System.

8. Library on-line bibiographic resources.

9. Shared network storage devices (aka "H" drive or "S" drive).

People attempting to connect to the binghamton.edu web server will be redirected to the backup server at BCC which will contain a message explaining the situation. E-mail sent to binghamton.edu mail addresses will normally be held by the sending server. Users who anticipate critical email communications during this time should warn correspondents of the outage and may want to have alternate e-mail services for this period. When our servers are once again up, there is likely to be an extraordinary amount of mail that will have to be processed. Expect some initial delays.

Planned Blackboard Upgrade and Outage December 19-20
Blackboard will not be available to faculty, staff or students to permit us to upgrade from version 7.2. We will also use this time to test our fail-over procedures should the Blackboard production servers have problems. Testing these procedures is a required part of disaster recovery planning.

Note that this event and the Computer Center Power Outage event means that Blackboard will not be available for up to 4 days. Instructors and students should plan accordingly.