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Please be advised that BUworks Finance, Human Resources, and Procurement services will have scheduled downtime on Sunday, May 8, 2022 from 8 am through 2 pm. This downtime is necessary to perform software updates to the BUworks platform. All BUworks services, including time entry submission and approval, paystub viewing, journal entries, bank updates and address…

BUworks Finance, Human Resources, and Procurement services will have scheduled downtime on Sunday, April 10, 2022 from 8 am through 2 pm. This downtime is necessary to perform software updates to the BUworks platform. All BUworks services, including time entry submission and approval, paystub viewing, journal entries, bank updates and address information, student/staff/faculty request form…

The University will be changing how long Zoom cloud recordings are retained. This is a reminder that, on March 13, 2022, Zoom cloud recordings that are at least 180 days old will be automatically deleted….

On Friday, December 17th, ServiceNow will be upgraded to the “Rome” version. As a result of the upgrade, ServiceNow will be unavailable starting at 11 p.m. on Friday. The planned restoration time is 7 a.m. Saturday, December 18th. The new version of ServiceNow contains a number of new features. Please see the Upgrade Release Notes knowledge article…

Please be advised that BUworks Finance, Human Resources, and Procurement services will have scheduled outages on Sunday, August 8, 2021 and Sunday, August 15, 2021. These outages are necessary to perform essential software and infrastructure updates for the BUworks environment. The service outages are planned as follows: 8 am Sunday, August 8, 2021 through 4…

Please be advised that BUworks Finance, Human Resources, and Procurement services will have a scheduled outage beginning at 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, April 11, 2021 through 12:00 p.m. Sunday, April 11, 2021. This outage is necessary to perform annual software updates to the BUworks platform. All BUworks services, including time entry submission and approval, paystub…

Effective Thursday October 1, BU Linux 5 FTP service point “linst.bu.edu” will retired.  The decommissioning of this service point is part of a larger initiative to retire legacy Andrew File System (AFS) components at BU. A recent activity review shows this service point to be unused and anticipate not impact from this change.  Current package…

On Saturday, September 5th 2020, the Identity and Access Management project for affiliates will be releasing a new change. The following will be included in this release: Microsoft Exchange email will be de-provisioned for employees and affiliates who are no longer with the University. Effective September 4, 2020, Retirees will be converted to Gmail instead of…

Design, Compete, Present to Amazon Experts! Virtual Design Jam | September 10-22, 2020 Boston University’s fall 2020 semester is underway and a great time to Jam! Join Adobe, Amazon, and college students across the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada in a beginner-friendly, virtual. Adobe Creative Jam designathon using Adobe XD. The goal: design an…

Please be aware that Boston University will be discontinuing the Individual Archive Service (“MyArchive”) effective Friday, July 31, 2020. You are receiving this communication as Information Services & Technology (IS&T) has identified you as a individual who has a MyArchive share. To prevent any loss of data, please migrate all files stored in your MyArchive…