When: Sunday, November 15, 9:00am-9:30am

MyWeb.ecu.edu will be unavailable on Sunday morning, November 15, while we perform upgrades during our normal maintenance window.

When: Sunday, November 15, 6:00am-11:00am

Banner and E-Procurement will be unavailable on Sunday morning, November 15, while we perform upgrades during our normal maintenance window

When: Sunday, November 15, 6:00am-8:00am

Onestop and ODS will be unavailable on Sunday morning, November 15, while we perform upgrades during our normal maintenance window.

When: Friday, Nov.  13, 10:00pm-12:00 midnight

ITCS is announcing downtime to multiple systems (including Blackboard, PirateDrive and the ECU website) to perform necessary maintenance on Friday evening, Nov 13.

The following systems will be affected by this downtime: Piratedrive "U" drive home directories, Piratedrive departmental directories, Banner home directories, Blackboard, Banner Xtender archived images, medical images through Centricity,  and the following servers: CSDI-R, GRINCHWEB, HSL-GLADIATOR, HSL-MTS, JSCANNING, RADONCP, TECSERVER, AND VCL images housed on Piratedrive.

When: Sunday, Nov. 8, 7:00am-Monday, Nov 8, 6:00am

Banner Xtender will be unavailable beginning Sunday morning at 7:00am through Monday morning at 6:00am while we perform upgrades to the system.

When: Sunday, Nov. 8, 8:00am-10:00am

A portion of the Virtual Computing Laboratory (VCL) will be unavailable on Sunday morning, November 8, while we perform upgrades during our normal maintenance window. Option 1 (Apache VCL) will be unavailable during this time, Option 2 (VCL-Citrix) will not experience any downtime.

When: Sunday, Nov. 8, 7:00am-12:00 noon

Several of our web based services will be will be unavailable on Sunday morning, Nov 8 while we perform upgrades during our normal maintenance window.

Systems affected include:
ithelp.ecu.edu
Winmedia.ecu.edu
Myweb.ecu.edu
Core.ecu.edu

Do Not Reply to the “YOUR MAILBOX HAS BEEN DE-ACTIVATED” Phishing Scheme
Date: Monday November 2, 2009.

WARNING! Yet another Email Phishing Scheme has hit the campus. This Phishing scheme warns victims that access to their mailbox has been limited. It requests the victims send their User Name and password and email address to prevent de-activation of their mailbox.

Reminder: ITCS reminds the campus to avoid e-mail scams, hoaxes and Phishing schemes circulating on the Internet. ECU ITCS will NEVER ask you for your password. Scams purporting to be from ECU IT, ECU Helpdesk, the Web Master, Webmail, the IRS, Your Financial Institution, etc. are bombarding e-mail mailboxes. Although MailMarshall blocks the majority of such e-mails, some scams successfully reach your e-mail mailbox.

NEVER provide personal or sensitive information in response to any unsolicited e-mail. Don’t open unsolicited e-mail attachments. No matter how realistic or enticing the e-mail message, you must remain vigilant in not responding to an e-mail hoax or scam. Just delete it!

If you have provided personal or sensitive information in response to an e-mail scam and don’t know what to do, please contact ECU’s IT Help Desk at 328-9866 or www.help.ecu.edu.

Visit the IT Security website, www.ecu.edu/itsecurity for examples of e-mail scams and additional information on avoiding them.

Please spread the word by sharing this information in your departmental meetings. Let’s avoid becoming victims to e-mail scams!

Information Technology and Computing Services (ITCS) is currently evaluating Windows 7 (Microsoft's newest operating system) to ensure its compatibility with ECU systems, various software programs and online applications.

We are excited about the new and improved features Windows 7 offers; as a friendly reminder, however, Windows 7 is not yet a supported operating system for the university community.

Please do NOT install Windows 7 and avoid purchasing new computers with Windows 7 installed until we announce that we have completed our evaluation and can provide proper support.

Thank you,
Information Technology and Computing Services