Archive for the ‘General News’ Category

Resolved: Blackboard is experiencing a service outage and is inaccessible….

Boston University’s cable television service was unavailable. Service has been restored by the vendor….

The Financial Conflict of Interest form is now available but is missing some recently submitted data….

Faculty / Staff notifications for daily symptom attestations and badges were not delivering to Faculty / Staff email inboxes….

The Links (Student Link / FacultyLink / FacultyStaff Link) were intermittently unavailable….

We’re excited to announce that your Zoom Breakout Rooms are getting a lot bigger! Breakout Rooms allow you to split your meetings into smaller sessions for improved collaboration and discussion. Starting Tuesday, October 5th, you’ll be able to create up to 100 breakout rooms per meeting with as many as 1000 participants in each room….

Apple has released an emergency security update to address a vulnerability in which spyware could be installed on an iPhone or other Apple device without ever having to click on a malicious link. The security patch was released on Monday September 13th, 2021 and a current activities alert (which provides up-to-date information about high-impact types…

Some clients are saying they are unable to get a connection via the BU Guest wifi network on the Med Campus….

Cisco Jabber clients were experiencing intermittent issues connecting after a server update from earlier this morning. Clients reported being unable to connect with a red/disconnected icon….

Websites on www.bu.edu were offline. This affected things like mainframe reports that were accessed via The Links. The main BU website, www.bu.edu, was producing some links, but without any styling or images. Full service has been restored.
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