System Status & Notifications
Completed - Maintenance to Interrupt Services, Thurs, May 25
COMPLETED - As part of the University’s Server Modernization Project. maintenance will take place on Thursday, May 25, 2023, from 6 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Some of the unavailable systems, services and applications during the maintenance window include:
- UWinsite Student
- My Attendance
- Online or In-Person permit purchase or ticket payment
- UwinCard for use at the libraries
- eGAS (graduate applications)
- eCV (electronic CV system)
Cloud-based and non-application-specific systems that will be available during the maintenance window include:
- Internet (wired and wireless)
- Brightspace
- Microsoft 365 applications including Outlook Email, Calendar, Teams,OneDrive, & SharePoint Sites
- The University websites, uwindsor.ca & future.uwindsor.ca
- UWindsor Self-Service Client Portal
- UwinCard for use at food services
Find a full list of services and applications that will be impacted by the maintenance.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.
Completed - Planned Service Disruption, Wednesday, May 10, 6 to 8 a.m.
COMPLETED - IT Services will be rebooting the Virtual Machine service Wednesday, May 10, between 6:00 and 8:00 a.m. Users may need to log in again on various applications after the reboot.
If you experience an issue after the reboot, please contact the IT Service Desk by:
- Calling 519-253-3000 ext. 4440, between 8:30 am and 8 p.m.
- Chatting live after 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
- Opening the appropriate support ticket
Completed - Planned Website Maintenance, Tuesday, May 9
COMPLETED - IT Services will be performing maintenance to the University's website backup copies, Tuesday, May 9, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. During this time, users and web content editors can still access the website uwindsor.ca and no disruption is expected.
If you experience an issue with the website during or after this maintenance time, please contact the IT Service Desk by:
- Chatting live
- Opening the appropriate support ticket
- Calling 519-253-3000 ext. 4440
Completed - Planned Maintenance Outage on Saturday, May 6, from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
COMPLETED - The planned Facility Services Operations maintenance will cause a campus-wide outage of the wired and wireless networks on Saturday, May 6, from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.
The additional maintenance from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. will cause an outage of the wired and wireless networks for the following buildings:
- Vanier Hall
- Centre for Automotive Research and Education
- Cartier Hall
- Great Lakes Institute of Environmental Research
- Laurier Hall
- Facility Services building including grounds
- ECC Powerhouse
You may have to restart or log in again on various platforms when the service resumes.
If you have difficulties accessing the internet on campus after the outage, please contact the IT Service Desk on Sunday, May 7, by calling 519-253-3000 ext. 4440. The IT Service Desk opens at 8:30 a.m. and will be responding to live chats and phone calls until 4 p.m. as well as tickets until 4:30 p.m. The IT Service Desk opens again on Monday at 8:30 a.m.
Completed - Network Maintenance Thursday, May 4, between 6 & 7:30 a.m.
COMPLETED - IT Services will perform a software update on the campus firewalls, Thursday, May 4 between 6 and 7:30 a.m. During this maintenance there will be brief interruptions to network service to Computer Science, Student Accessibility Services, and to the mobilevpn service.
You may have to restart or log in again on various platforms when the network resumes operation.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
You may have to restart or log in again on various platforms when the network resumes operation.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Completed - UWinsite Student Disruption Tonight
COMPLETED - UWinsite Student will be offline tonight, May 2, for approximately one hour starting at 11:30 p.m. The system will be refreshed to address a performance issue.
Should users have difficulty accessing the UWinsite Student after the update is complete, please contact IT Service Desk, by:
We apologize for the inconvenience.