Archive for the ‘General News’ Category

Clients were unable to access the Qualtrics portal, and encountered the error message ‘no healthy upstream’….

The MGHPCC (Holyoke Datacenter) overheated today and some servers and network switches shut down. …

Ariba is experiencing a degradation issue and Guided Buying is currently down.
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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…

WebNew is not allowing access for services preventing new account creation and access to usradm tools.
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The SQLVRU server is unavailable.
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Clients who attempted to update email forwarding preferences or their name in the directory change entry tool were encountering an error message: “An Internal Error has occurred”….

Concur is currently unavailable through the web. It can be accessed using the mobile app.
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A disruption in wired network connectivity caused service for many administrative services to go offline and caused a residual impact to select servers in BU’s datacenter….

There is a significant flaw in Chrome (CVE-2022-1096) that was announced on Friday, March 25th and has since been featured in the news. This one has received attention because there is an exploit available for it amid higher global tensions. The bug is also in shared code that is used in Microsoft Edge, which may…