System status
University Systems makes every effort to inform the university community of any issues affecting the services that we offer. Messages regarding planned maintenance or unexpected outages of our services are shown below.
Status
* Complete * NETS SUB-0F Network Maintenance
Effective 6 hours ago: *** Work complete *** Network Services will be performing maintenance in SUB-0F on 2025-11-14 starting at 07:30am. There will be a brief outage in data, voice, and wireless...
Unity Connection Software Patching - COMPLETE
Effective 9 hours ago: This work is now complete. ============================================== Network Services will be performing software patching on the Unity Connection Voicemail servers on...
Brief outage of IIQ and Netlink
Effective 22 hours ago: There will be a brief outage of Identity IQ and Netlink services around 16:00. -- Matthew Bacon Systems Analyst, Production and Technical Support
BDMS/AppXtender outage
Effective 18 hours ago: There will be an outage of BDMS/ApplicationXtender at 19:00. This is expected to last 1-2 hours. -- Matthew Bacon Systems Analyst, Production and Technical Support
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Notices
Change to NVivo license model
July 31, 2025
The centrally funded NVivo site license will expire August 27, 2025. NVivo licensing was previously made possible by a one-time, three-year central funding arrangement, which is now concluding....
Banner maintenance scheduled for June 1, 2025
May 26, 2025
The University's central administrative system (Banner) used for student records, payroll, and finance will be unavailable on Sunday, June 1, 2025, from 9:30 am until 6:00 pm to perform planned...
New University Systems Website
May 5, 2025
On the evening of May 5th 2025, University Systems launched a new website. The new site is built from the ground up for all users, with a focus on accessibility, plain language, and ease of...
Restricting use of DeepSeek at UVic
May 1, 2025
DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that specializes in open-source large language models. It recently launched a free AI-powered chatbot which has gained significant attention.
Role-based email changes
December 19, 2024
We're upgrading all employee email accounts from Exchange 2016 to Exchange Online. This update will help us maintain the technical currency of UVic's email service. It also adds better Microsoft...
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