****** PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY ****** CNS has scheduled the following outages during the holiday break - Thursday December 22nd - January 2nd, inclusive. Thursday December 22 08:30 - 18:00hrs Internet Service: There will be several brief service interruptions throughout the day. During these service interruptions the link between York University and the Internet will be unavailable and people off campus will not be able to access computing services at York, including email and York websites. During the service interruptions people at York will not be able to access the Internet. These service interruptions are necessary in order to increase the size of the University's internet connection. AirYork Service: There will be several service interruptions of various lengths throughout the day. During these interruptions, people connected to the AirYork service will lose their connections. These service interruptions are necessary in order to carry out AirYork service upgrades. There will also be several brief service interruptions throughout the day impacting general network services at Glendon Campus, Nadal/SSB Campus, and portions of the Keele campus including Keele Campus ResNet services in order to carry out necessary maintenance work. Friday December 23 08:30 - 18:00hrs AirYork Service: There will be several service interruptions of various lengths throughout the day. During these interruptions, people connected to the AirYork service will lose their connections. These service interruptions are necessary in order to carry out AirYork service upgrades. There will also be several brief service interruptions throughout the day impacting network services on the Keele campus in order to carry out necessary maintenance work. Saturday December 24 08:30 - 12:00hrs There may be some brief service interruptions to portions of the Keele campus network. Tuesday December 27th 08:00 - 11:00hrs * Central E-Mail(@yorku.ca), and related services (e.g. LISTSERV, MyMail,WebMail) * York Web (the main York Web server) which will also include all Passport York authenticated web applications: Student Web Applications - REM, STAC, etc., Manage My Services, NoteBox, Atlas Updater, CEO-Deux, GEO-Deux, Roaming Access, Class Lists, eReports, AirYork, YorkNet, VPN, EVote, EForms, PTVNET, etc. * WebCT * Phoenix academic cluster * Anonymous FTP 11:00 - 24:00hrs * SIS applications - all administrative, faculty(class lists) and student applications - REM, STAC,etc. will be unavailable * WebCT Wednesday December 28th 11:00 - 24:00hrs * ITS - HR/Pcard/Finance systems * SIS QA Monday January 2nd 08:30 - 18:00hrs In order to upgrade software in the network switches on the Keele and Glendon campus, there will be a brief service interruption in each building sometime during the day. Network services in the Steacie Science Library will not be impacted by these outages. Centrally supported computing services such as email and the central web services will not be impacted by these outages. Questions or concerns about this note, should be directed to the CNS Helpdesk in the Computing Commons, William Small Centre, (voice: 416-736-5800, email: [log in to unmask]). CNS Announce