System status
University Systems makes every effort to inform the university community of any issues affecting the services that we offer. Messages regarding planned maintenance or unexpected outages of our services are shown below.
Status
Effective 18 hours ago: Patching complete. ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Network services will be patching our ISE server cluster tonight, June 26 2025, beginning at 10 PM to address a major vulnerability...
Effective 2 days from now: Network Services will be performing certificate renewals on one of the Call Manager Servers, which are responsible for Voice Services at the University, on Monday June 30,...
Effective 14 hours from now: We will be performing non-disruptive upgrades to the disk7.comp.uvic.ca NetApp cluster in EDC1. The estimated time to completion is 4 hours starting at 7am Saturday, June...
Effective 21 days from now: We will be performing non-disruptive upgrades to the disk14.comp.uvic.ca NetApp cluster in EDC2. The estimated time to completion is 4 hours starting at 7am Saturday, July...
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Notices
Banner maintenance scheduled for June 1, 2025
May 26, 2025
The University's central administrative system (Banner) used for student records, payroll, and finance will be unavailable on Sunday, June 1, 2025, from 9:30 am until 6:00 pm to perform planned...
New University Systems Website
May 5, 2025
On the evening of May 5th 2025, University Systems launched a new website. The new site is built from the ground up for all users, with a focus on accessibility, plain language, and ease of...
Restricting use of DeepSeek at UVic
May 1, 2025
DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that specializes in open-source large language models. It recently launched a free AI-powered chatbot which has gained significant attention.
Role-based email changes
December 19, 2024
We're upgrading all employee email accounts from Exchange 2016 to Exchange Online. This update will help us maintain the technical currency of UVic's email service. It also adds better Microsoft...
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