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Please be advised that BUworks Finance, Human Resources, and Procurement services will have scheduled downtime on Sunday, October 9, 2022 from 8:00 am through 12:00 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…

As part of our continuing effort to improve wireless service across Boston University, we will change the way Internet Protocol (IP) addresses get assigned to wireless devices on campus. Effective Sunday, July 3, 2022, IS&T will transition the process of assigning IP addresses on Wi-Fi from public IP addresses to private IP. This process is…

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…