Software Update News Archive

Banner will be unavailable on Saturday, September 21st, 2024, beginning at 8:00 AM, for disaster recovery testing. The outage is expected to last most of the day.  Please ensure that any changes or data that needs to be processed in Banner is completed prior to the start of the testing, or postponed until after testing

The IT Enterprise Applications Team will be performing upgrades to Degree Works as follows: Saturday, August 17, 2024, beginning at 10:00 PM.  This upgrade should take approximately 15 minutes.  During this time Degree Works will not be accessible. Sunday, August 18, 2024, beginning at 6:30 AM.  The upgrade should take approximately 7.5 hours.  During this time

This change is being made for all students, faculty and staff with the exception of the School of Medicine. On Friday, June 12, 2020, Marshall University will begin migrating from Microsoft Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams. The migration is expected take up to two weeks and is expected to be completed before July 1st.   Clients have

MUIT has completed an upgrade to the MU WiFi and Eduroam wireless networks on campus.  If you are having issues connecting to the MUWiFi or Eduroam WiFi networks on our campuses, you may need to “Trust” the new certificate. If you are still having issues, try following these steps: Go into your WiFi settings and

Marshall University Information Technology is applying a major upgrade to the email firewall service, called Barracuda Essentials, on Sunday, May 19, 2019. Barracuda Essentials provides advanced protection against fraudulent email for both Faculty/Staff email (on-premise Exchange) and Student email (Office365). It also provides security for outgoing mail to external sources, assisting in the discovery and

Information Technology is currently developing and will be deploying an updated version of the Windows 10 image to all public University Computing Facility (UCF) sites beginning June 15th, 2019. UCF sites are centrally managed computing facilities where students can find a computer workstation with standardized software (Drinko Library, SH 532, CH 330/332, HH 444).  

As we announced on January 25th, Marshall University Information Technology will be enabling Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all current students.  Our initial deadline was March 31st, but allowed ample time for student after returning from Spring Break to enroll for MFA.  Officially starting Monday, April 8th, 2019 all students will be REQUIRED to enroll for

Microsoft is announcing a new Office 365 feature for To-Do & Planner Integration. We’ll begin rolling this feature out soon. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 48624 How does this affect me?  Users who opt-in to the Planner integration will be able to see and edit tasks they have been assigned to in

01/09/19 –  Please note:  Additional updates will be added to the bottom of this post. Marshall University Information Technology has been working with campus employees as we switch over to Banner 9 from the Banner 8 User Interface.  Ellucian, our Banner vendor, will no longer provide updates to Banner 8 after January 1, 2019.  We have

Marshall University Information Technology has received the following from MatLab/MathWorks: “MathWorks recently introduced “Updates” available between the normal twice-yearly releases of MATLAB and Simulink. Each of these Updates contains a cumulative set of bug and security fixes that you can apply to an existing installation. Starting in R2018b, users will receive notification on the MATLAB