Archive for August, 2026

Planned Maintenance: BU Charles River Campus / BU Medical Campus (8/28-8/29)…

New Blackboard Learn course site creations, and enrollments were delayed as a result of an integration issue with Blackboard….

On Sunday, August 23rd, between 02:00 AM and 08:00 AM IS&T will be performing scheduled maintenance of wireless networks (both Academic and Residential) on the Charles River Campus. During the maintenance window, network outages in each building will occur as updates take place. Buildings impacted by this maintenance: 1 Silber Way 1 University Road 10…

On Sunday, August 23, between 12:00 AM and 12:30 AM, IS&T will be transitioning to Zoom’s new web experience. Zoom is requiring that all customers transition to this new experience by the end of August, 2026. This updated experience will include a significant redesign and relocation of many Zoom features and workflows used today. We…

Planned Maintenance: Wireless Networks on Charles River Campus (Locations Specified) – 8/21/2026: 03:00 am – 06:00 am…

Incident Discovery Time: 05:03pm on 08/19/2026 Time of Resolution: 12:40am on 08/20/2026 Services Impacted: Learning Management Systems Description of Impact Blackboard was unavailable Incident Description and Resolution IS&T teams have resolved the incident. Additional Information The cause of this incident was determined to be a vendor problem. If you continue to have issues, please contact…

Planned Maintenance: Wireless Networks on Charles River Campus (Locations Specified) – 8/20/2026: 03:00 am – 06:00 am…

If you work with BU data—and nearly everyone here does—the rules that govern how you protect it just got clearer. We’ve completed a full revision of the Data Protection Standards, the documents that function as university policy under the Information Security Policy. This was more than a refresh. Several documents were renamed from Policy to…

Voicemail messaging services were unavailable across BU Campuses….

Voicemail services were unavailable across BU campuses….