Technology@Wooster

On Tuesday, June 26th, significant system maintenance will occur during the regularly scheduled weekly maintenance window (6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.). IT will be adding disk space, updating the storage area network, replacing network equipment, and patching critical systems. Many applications will be unavailable during this period. These include Colleague (including ScotWeb and Wintegrate) and Novell file services.

We regret any inconvenience this service outage may cause, and look forward to providing the enhanced services that these activities will make possible.

The Development Office and the Office of Information Technology are hard at work on the implementation of Colleague Advancement. One of the critical processes this implementation entails is the transfer of data from the legacy software system to Colleague Advancement. Users cannot interact with Colleague during data transfer. In an effort to minimize the impact upon the user community, the data transfers will be conducted on weekends. Because there is so much data that must be processed, the transfers will be conducted over multiple weekends. The tentative schedule appears below. Colleague (Datatel) will be completely unavailable during these intervals. ScotWeb and Wintegrate will also be unavailable. We regret any inconvenience this may cause. Please contact Marlene Brown at x2304 if you have any questions.

Colleague (including ScotWeb and Wintegrate) will be unavailable:

from 5:00 p.m. on Friday, June 22 until 8:00 a.m. on Monday, June 25
from noon on Friday, June 29 until 8:00 a.m. Monday, July 2
from noon on Friday, July 13 until 8:00 a.m. on Monday, July 16
from 5:00 on Friday, July 20 until 8:00 a.m. on Monday, July 23
from 5:00 on Friday, July 27 until 8:00 a.m. on Monday, July 30

Effective July 1, User Support Specialist Michael Naylor will assume a new position. He will join Networks, Telecommunications and Systems as Systems Administrator. Mike will specialize in the administration of Windows servers and he will provide support for the digital imaging system. Mike made significant contributions to User Services during his tenure there, and we are confident that he will make real contributions to NTS as well. The Office of Information Technology is grateful to Mike for his willingness to take on this new position and the associated responsibilities.

Michael Naylor

Colleague will be unavailable between noon on Friday, June 15 and 8:00 a.m. on Monday, June 18. (ScotWeb will also be unavailable.) During this period IT will be working to copy large amounts of data from the legacy administrative software system to Colleague. This is in preparation for the new alumni/development application slated to go live on July 1. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.