Information Services has received notification from Estates & Campus Services that electrical testing work will be undertaken in the Cottrell building on Friday evening from 20:00. During the testing, there will be a loss of power to network equipment located along the B corridor causing an interruption to network services including the following: Wired […]
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Countdown to new look portal
In response to all your feedback on the Portal in our IS Satisfaction Survey 2014, Information Services has been working on a new look for the portal. The new look Portal launches in early January. Get a sneak preview here. What you told us in the survey: “The homepage seems cluttered at times, full of general and, […]
Maintenance on Stirling Campus Wi-Fi: Thursday 4th December.
Systems and Network Services will be performing some maintenance operations on the Stirling Campus Wireless Network (involving the ‘eduroam’ / ‘UoS Guest Internet’ and ‘UoS Multimedia’ networks) on Thursday 4th December between 0730 and 0830. While we are not expecting any downtime during the maintenance period, there is a small risk of an impact […]
Student file store access restored
We are very happy to report that the student filestore server has recovered overnight and access to student home folders is restored. We have tested the student lab PCs this morning and applications, Succeed, OneDrive, etc all seem to be functioning normally. Once again, we apologise for this break in service. Regards, […]
Problem with student filestore (update)
This is a follow up to our post earlier today re the failure of student file store. The diagnostic which is running on the student server has not yet finished so we are going to have to leave it running overnight. We will then review the situation first thing tomorrow morning. As the afternoon […]
Problem with student filestore
There is currently a problem with the student file store server (home folders). We have had to take the server offline to run a diagnostic scan, we estimate that this will take at least 6 hours to complete (therefore up to c8pm). In the meantime students are not able to access files stored on […]
Just Press Print – New online ordering system for Graphics & Print Services
The way to order print jobs and request design and print quotations from Graphics & Print Services is changing. For the chance to win some fabulous goodies, including our top prize (£150 Argos voucher), come along and find out what’s going on at our official software launch on 11th and 12th December in the […]
Disruption to network services in RG Bomont building, Saturday and Sunday 22-23 November
Information Services has received notification from Estates & Campus Services that electrical testing work will be undertaken in the RG Bomont building this weekend. During the testing, there will be a loss of power to network equipment located within the building causing an interruption to network services including the following: Wired network – PCs […]
Just press print – new online ordering system for G+P
The way to order print jobs and request design and print quotations from Graphics & Print Services is changing. For the chance to win some fabulous goodies, including our top prize (£150 Argos voucher), come along and find out what’s going on at our official software launch on 11th and 12th December in the […]
Beware Androids bearing lollipops
Information Services would recommend that Android users do not upgrade to the latest version of the operating system, Android 5.0 also known as Lollipop. Initial testing has shown that the software used to provision eduroam will not run on this operating system, as a consequence all attempted installs will fail. We are currently working […]