Jamie L Walden has written 20 articles

Holiday Hours

The IT Help Desk and Solutions Center be closed starting at 5pm on Wednesday, November 26 through Friday, November 28 for the Thanksgiving holiday. Esports will be closed starting on Wednesday, November 26. Normal hours of operation will resume on Monday, December 1st. While the university is closed, IT will continue to monitor the network, email, and major…

Monthly IT Maintenance – Friday, November 21 -COMPLETE

Maintenance Complete Maintenance was completed Friday night and all systems are expected to be functioning normally. If you experience any issues, please contact us at https://ithelp.utc.edu. Maintenance Announcement Information Technology will be performing scheduled maintenance on Friday, November 21 beginning at 5:30 p.m. All maintenance is expected to be complete by 6:00 a.m. the following Saturday, November 22. What…

Microsoft Service Outage – Resolved

Status Update: All Microsoft issues have been resolved as of late last night. Status Update from Microsoft at 9:09pm: We’re closely monitoring affected infrastructure where the impacting change was previously applied to ensure the reversion has taken effect and that all infrastructure is brought back to a healthy state. This is occurring in tandem with…

StarRez Outage

Status Update at 8:59 p.m: Services have been fully restored. Status Update at 4:48 p.m: Services are returning to normal. Our StarRez vendor is closely monitoring the situation to ensure continued stability Issue Reported on October 29: Customers in all regions are currently experiencing service disruptions with StarRez. Engineers are actively working to remediate the…

Dynamic Forms Issues

Issues Resolved at 2:16 p.m: The issues impacting Dynamic Forms today due to a widespread azure outage have been resolved. Issue Reported on October 29 at 12:10p.m.: We have received reports that Dynamic Forms is experiencing issues. The vendor is currently looking into the issue. During this time, you may receive errors completing an online…

Employee Login Issue to UT Resources – Resolved

Status Update at 10:14 p.m. – We appreciate your patience today. The issues we have seen impacting licensing/access to UT systems and Microsoft Azure hosted services like (Dynamic Forms, Touchnet, StarRez) have been resolved. IT Status Page Updates: If you are still encountering any issues, please contact us at https://ithelp.utc.edu. Status Update at 9:15p.m: Access and licensing…

Banner Systems Maintenance – October 31 – November 2 – COMPLETE

Maintenance Complete- Saturday at 9:32pm All services have been restored. If you encounter any issues, please contact us at https://ithelp.utc.edu Status Update on Nov 1 at 9:30pm: To access the Argos reporting tool, you may need to update your bookmarked link to the revised links that now posted in MyMocsNet for faculty and staff. Status Update…

Monthly IT Maintenance – Friday, October 24 – COMPLETE

Maintenance Complete Maintenance was completed late Friday night and all systems are expected to functioning normally. If you experience any issues, please contact us at https://ithelp.utc.edu. Status Update at 11:49p.m: Network maintenance has been completed. General system maintenance is expected to be completed by 3:00am. You may see a brief interruption in services until then as…

Blog.utc.edu Maintenance – Saturday, October 25 – COMPLETE

Maintenance Complete Maintenance for the WordPress migration has been completed and all systems are expected to functioning normally. If you experience any issues, please contact us at https://ithelp.utc.edu. To access the admin portal for editing posts on the blog.utc.edu sites, you will need to use the UTC VPN going forward. Instructions for accessing the VPN are…

Web Service Outage for Blog.utc.edu, etc.

Status Update at 11:14a.m.: Services have been restored as of 10:00a.m. and all systems are expected to be fully operational now. If you experience any issues, please let us know at https://ithelp.utc.edu. Status Update at 2:14a.m.: The campus news sites at blog.utc.edu and shortened URLs that begin with go.utc will continue to remain offline this morning. We will post an…

K@te System Issues

Issue Resolved: K@te services have been restored as of end of day on Monday, October 20. Issues Reported on October 20, 2025: We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with our Learning Management System, K@TE due to the Amazon Web Services outage. Our team is in contact with our vendor, Cornerstone, and actively receiving updates on…

Canvas Issues

Status Update at 5:03 pm: Instructure is continuing to work with Amazon Web Services looking into our Canvas, Mastery Connect and other Instructure products being down Issues Reported on October 20, 2025: Due to an AWS outage today, you may see issues accessing or completing functions in Canvas. For updates visit https://status.instructure.com/

Wireless Casting (Vivi) Issues on Apple Devices

Issue Reported on September 8, 2025: We’re aware of an issue affecting Vivi wireless casting when used with Apple computers in classrooms and conference rooms. The screen may freeze or stop updating during use. Currently, this issue appears to only affect Apple devices such as MacBooks. We’re actively investigating and have contacted Vivi support for…

2025 IT Maintenance Dates

Information Technology will be performing routine general system and web maintenance during the following dates this year.  General IT Maintenance Dates: During general maintenance all IT services, including the public UTC website services, will see an interruption of services. Maintenance will typically begin at 5:30 p.m. on Friday nights. UTC systems required for Friday night…