Resolved: MyFiles – unavailable at School of Law and for Virtual Desktop Thin Client Labs

Incident Discovery Time: 03:05pm on 01/16/2015
Time of Resolution: 10:00am on 01/16/2015
Services Impacted: Other – see description

Description of Impact

MyFiles was unavailable to clients from the School of Law and for Virtual Desktop Thin Client Labs. A workaround is now available. See the Additional Information section below for details.

Incident Description and Resolution

IS&T has identified the cause of this issue and is the process of full remediation.

Additional Information

When logging in to the Thin Client lab at Mugar, saved documents may not appear on the desktop or under Documents in the Start menu. If that happens, your files are still available and you may access them via the “MyFiles” shortcut on the Desktop or by opening the M: drive (open Start menu, choose Computer, then open the M: drive under Network Location).

If you continue to have issues, please contact the IT Help Center.

Previous Update

Incident Discovery Time: 03:05pm on 01/13/2015

Services Impacted: MyFiles

Description of Impact

MyFiles is unavailable to clients from the School of Law and for Virtual Desktop Thin Client Labs.

Current Status

IS&T teams have identified the cause of the incident and are investigating with vendor assistance.

Next Update: Upon incident resolution

Previous Update

Incident Discovery Time: 03:05pm on 01/13/2015

Services Impacted: MyFiles

Description of Impact

MyFiles is unavailable to clients from the School of Law and for Virtual Desktop Thin Client Labs.

Full service restoration is expected on Wednesday morning, January 14.

Current Status

IS&T teams have identified the cause of the incident and are investigating with vendor assistance.

Next Update: 10:00am on 01/14/2015

Previous Update

Incident Discovery Time: 03:05pm on 01/13/2015

Services Impacted: Other – see description

Description of Impact

MyFiles is unavailable to all clients. (Initially this incident only affected clients from the School of Law and for Virtual Desktop Thin Client Labs.)

Current Status

IS&T teams have not yet identified the cause of the incident, but are investigating with vendor assistance.

Next Update: Upon incident resolution

Previous Update

Incident Discovery Time: 03:05pm on 01/13/2015

Services Impacted: MyFiles

Description of Impact

MyFiles is unavailable to all clients. (Initially this incident only affected clients from the School of Law and for Virtual Desktop Thin Client Labs.)

Current Status

IS&T teams have not yet identified the cause of the incident, but are investigating.

Next Update: 04:15pm

Incident Discovery Time: 12:00pm on 01/13/2015

Services Impacted: MyFiles

Description of Impact

MyFiles is currently unavailable for clients from the School of Law and for Virtual Desktop Thin Client Labs.

Current Status

IS&T teams have not yet identified the cause of the incident, but are investigating.

Additional Information

Clients that use MyFiles from other academic units and departments are not affected.

Next Update: Upon incident resolution