Drake ITS is switching from Sophos Antivirus software to Microsoft Defender Antivirus. As a result, if you are using a Drake-owned Mac you may see a pop up asking to Allow network filtering. Please click Allow if you see the message as shown below. If you’ve already clicked Don’t Allow, the software will install at...
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Microsoft Authentication Outage Resolved
Thank you for your patience. Microsoft has now resolved their global outage. More information on their resolution is available at https://status.office.com/. If you continue to experience issues, please contact the support center at 515-271-3001 or visit service.drake.edu/its to report your issue. To receive outage notifications by text, opt in by texting DrakeITS2020 to phone number...
UPDATE: Microsoft Authentication Outage
After further investigation, ITS has determined that the issues connecting to Drake systems are being caused by a global Microsoft outage and not our Duo multi factor authentication system. Current information on this outage can be found at https://status.office.com/ ITS staff will continue to monitor the situation and will post updates as Microsoft makes them...
Duo Authentication Outage
At 3:25 p.m., ITS was made aware of an outage of Duo, our multi-factor authentication system. This is affecting authentication to a number of Drake systems. ITS is currently investigating to determine all of the systems that are affected. We will provide updates and will let you know when this outage has been resolved. Thank...
Campus Labs Update to Single Sign on (SSO) on Tuesday, March 16 at 12 p.m.
ITS is updating Campus Labs in order to facilitate single sign on (SSO). Campus Labs is the company that CPHS and SOE use to administer their course evaluations. In order to make this change, Campus Labs may be unavailable on Tuesday March 16 from 12 to 12:30 p.m. If you are unable to access this system after...
UPDATE: Blackboard Learn Planned Outage from Sunday Evening to Monday Morning
Blackboard Learn requires scheduled maintenance to maintain updated security measures. As a result, access to Blackboard Learn will be unavailable starting Sunday night March 15 at 10 p.m. until 3 a.m. on Monday morning, March 16. This is an update from the originally announced schedule of Saturday night until Sunday morning. We appreciate your patience....
Blackboard Learn Planned Outage from Saturday Evening into Sunday Morning
Blackboard Learn requires scheduled maintenance to maintain updated security measures. As a result, access to Blackboard Learn will be unavailable starting Saturday night March 14 at 10 p.m. until 3 a.m. on Sunday morning, March 15. We appreciate your patience. If you are unable to access this system after the planned maintenance window, please contact...
Terminal Four (Drake CMS) publishing issue resolved
The issue that was causing updates to drake.edu not to publish has now been resolved. If you encounter further issues, please reach out to Jeremy Sievers in University Communications and Marketing.
Terminal Four (Drake CMS) changes aren’t publishing
Reports have been made of changes to drake.edu website pages not publishing. ITS and University Communications and Marketing are investigating the issue and hope to have a resolution soon. We appreciate your patience in the meantime. Thank you!
On Campus WiFi Outage Resolved
At 10:30 a.m., ITS learned of an outage affecting WiFi access on campus. At 10:45 a.m.,ITS staff resolved the issue. If you continue to experience any problems, please contact the support center at515-271-3001 or visit service.drake.edu/its for assistance.