Many OIT and university computing resources will be unavailable between 5 p.m. on Friday, May 26 and 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 27 due to a power outage Facilities Management has planned. (Information specific to the power outage is available at www.facilities.umd.edu/ios/ios_details.cfm?ios=1993.)

Applications and services unavailable during the downtime include: ARES (PHR, Electronic Forms, Data Warehouse), the athletic ticket server, CICS, DEANS, Glue, the Mail@umd e-mail system (including e-mail reflectors), WAM, CorporateTime, Digital Imaging, the news service (source of newsgroups), Listserv lists, Testudo, WebCT, and Webhosting. We will begin shutting down these services at 5 p.m. on Friday and they will be restarted between 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Saturday.

The Directory, because it has copies on servers in other buildings, will be available during the outage. Departmental Glue services will still be up and available, as will Glue software. The university home page, www.umd.edu, will be hosted remotely and will be available.

The maintenance outage was scheduled for a timeframe when demand for services is low. Concerns about the interruption of specific services during this outage should be addressed to the OIT Help Desk at 301.405.1500 as soon as possible.

When the computer systems are restarted on the 27th, there will be a change to OIT's Pay-for-Print service. More information on the change is available at www.helpdesk.umd.edu/documents/4/4693.