Comments on Illinois Wesleyan University’s Information Technology: planning and operations
Posted in Operations on Mar 28th, 2008
Updated 1:35pm 3/28
We experienced some problems with my.iwu and e-mail this morning. Our systems staff did some maintenance on my.iwu during our scheduled Friday morning maintenance window (2am to 7am.) The problem was related to this work.
Campus e-mail uses my.iwu for password checking, so we also saw some problems with people trying to log-in and [...]
Posted in Operations on Mar 26th, 2008
This is a graph of how much Internet traffic the University used yesterday (measured in 5 minute intervals.) The green shows inbound internet traffic, and the blue line is outbound traffic. It’s pretty typical of what we see for daily Internet use.
The University has a 45megabit connection to the Internet shared by all users on [...]
Posted in Operations on Mar 24th, 2008
We made good progress on the card system upgrade over Spring break, but were unable to complete all the work. Food services needed additional time to configure the new registers. All of the new registers have been tested, and the server upgrades are complete. We have scheduled the remaining work to be done after May [...]
Posted in Operations on Mar 24th, 2008
Over the past few weeks cable service in Bloomington-Normal has gone through a transition as services have moved from Insight to Comcast. The help desk has received a number of calls from people who have experienced some difficult with either their campus e-mail or the campus proxy server after the transition.
We have verified that all [...]
Posted in Operations on Mar 16th, 2008
The new Banner server is now in place, we’ve finished work on my.iwu that would affect e-mail, and we’ve connected Banner to my.iwu.
All my.iwu services are now working.
Thanks for all your patience as we worked to improved information technology services at Illinois Wesleyan.
Posted in Operations, Planning & Assessment on Mar 6th, 2008
The office of Information Technology is planning two major upgrades over spring break. This will require some systems downtime on 3/15 and 3/16.
1) New Banner Server.
We’ve been working to prepare a new faster, server to help with Registration. On Saturday, 3/15, we’ll be switching to the new server. On 3/15 access to items such as [...]
Posted in Planning & Assessment on Mar 6th, 2008
Unfortunately, the focus groups on IT services scheduled for today and tomorrow have been canceled.
Our thanks to everyone who volunteered. We did get a sufficient number of volunteers, but the researchers from Pepperdine had their flight canceled, and were unable to reschedule in time to make today’s sessions.
We will work with them to reschedule for [...]
Posted in Planning & Assessment on Mar 4th, 2008
I know you’d like to see better information technology services on campus. I’d like to offer you an opportunity to help improve IT @ IWU.
Last week IT sent out an announcement asking students, faculty and staff to please volunteer to attend a focus group session regarding IT services. The focus groups are being held on [...]
Posted in future on Mar 1st, 2008
“What might a university look like with a fully deployed program of converged devices like the iPhone?”
That’s the question some in higher education are asking. Abilene Christian University recently announced plans to give all entering students an iPhone or iPod, and released a video showing how such devices might be used on campus (see excerpt [...]