April 2022

• 03/30/2022 to 04/06/2022
• 04/06/2022 to 04/13/2022
• 03/13/2022 to 04/20/2022
• 04/20/2022 to 04/27/2022
  

Changes from 03/30/2022 to 04/06/2022

• Friday, March 18, 4:00 p.m. to Saturday, April 2, 6:00 p.m. - completed
  Updating VMware.
  User Impact: None expected but performance may degrade on production VMware.
• Thursday, March 31, 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. - completed
  Updating Matlab licensing.
  User Impact: No access to Matlab during this period. 
  
• Friday, April 1, 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. - completed  
  Updating RMS.
  User Impact: Access to Activation, Self Serve and Administration will be intermittent during this period.
• Friday, April 1, 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. - Cancelled 
  Updating Jabber client.
  User Impact: Windows & Mac users who have Jabber installed will be forced to perform an upgrade to their clients.
• Friday, April 1, 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. - completed 
  Updating TRS EMS.
  User Impact: No access to trsfacilities.ryerson.ca during this period.
• Friday, April 1, 2:55 p.m. to 3:05 p.m. - completed
  Monday, April 4, 2:55 p.m. to 3:05 p.m. - completed
  Adding Senate election, BoG Student Member election (Friday) and XGSU student election links (Monday) to my.ryerson portal.
  User Impact: None expected.
• Saturday, April 2, 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. - completed
  Apply system update on RMS/CAS production servers
  User Impact: Portal, RMS, RMS Account Activation, RMS Web services, CAS will not be available during the downtime.

Changes from 04/06/2022 to 04/13/2022

• Thursday, April 7, 6:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. - completed
  Applying assorted fixes and features to CQ.
  User Impact: None expected since there are two legs of the servers, www.ryerson.ca won't be affected.
• Thursday, April 7, 6:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. - completed
  Removing BoG Student Member election and XGSU student election links from my.ryerson portal.
  User Impact: None expected.
• Friday, April 8, 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. - completed
  Renewing network certificates.
  User Impact: None expected.
• Friday, April 8, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. - completed 
  Updating XMedius.
  User Impact: Access to XMedius will be intermittent during this period.
• Friday, April 8, 4:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. - completed
  Removing Senate election link from my.ryerson portal.
  User Impact: None expected.
• Saturday, April 9, 12:10 a.m. to Monday, April 11, 8:00 a.m. - completed 
  Updating RAMSS.
  User Impact: No access to RAMSS and all its related functions.
• Sunday, April 10, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. - completed
  Updating RUFIS Services.
  User Impact: RUFIS will not be available during this time frame.

Changes from 04/13/2022 to 04/20/2022

• Friday, April 15, 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. - Rescheduled
  Updating RMS.
  User Impact: Access to Activation, Self Serve and Administration will be intermittent during this period.
• Sunday, April 17, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. - completed
  Upgrading Stat & UPK database.
  User Impact:
  The Stat & UPK applications will be down during the outage.

Changes from 04/20/2022 to 04/27/2022

• Thursday, April 21, 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. - completed
  Updating CCS software licensing servers.
  User Impact: Access to the following programs may become intermittent:
  • ANSYS
  • Autodesk (primary)
  • JAWS
  • Sparx Enterprise Architect
  •  Autodesk (secondary)
  • SPSS
  • Kurzweil
  • Mapinfo
  • ZoomText
• Friday, April 22, 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. - completed
  Updating RMS.
  User Impact: Access to Activation, Self Serve and Administration will be intermittent during this period.
• Sunday, April 24, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. - completed
  Updating Stat & UPK DB.
  User Impact:
  The Stat & UPK applications will be down during the outage.