Author: Katie Surkin

Beginning at 11:30am tomorrow, February 14th, LITS will be working with our vendors to upgrade the authentication for Tripod. Though we don’t anticipate any appreciable downtime, patrons may notice that they are unable to login to their library accounts or request books while this work is being done. If you find yourself having trouble, please try again in a few minutes.

Thank you for your patience while we perform this necessary work. Please contact the Help Desk if you have any questions: help@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-7440.

Adobe will be unavailable from 6-7:30pm on Thursday, 2/15. During this time LITS will be working with our vendors to move to our new authentication system. During this downtime, you will be unable to sign in to Adobe or modify/safe documents. After the upgrade, the Duo login screen will look slightly different.

Please report any questions or concerns to the Help Desk: help@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-7440.

Update, 10:50am: LITS has resolved all of the phone issues in Cambrian Row. Please contact the Help Desk with any questions or to report lingering issues.

This morning, community members in Cambrian Row offices, particularly Aelwyd, Clynnoc, and Pensby, may not be able to use their office phones. LITS is working to diagnose the issue and to restore service as quickly as possible.

Currently, the phones in Dolwen are operating as usual.

Please reach out to the Help Desk with any questions: help@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-7440.

UPDATE, Friday, 12/9: Late last night, LITS was able to successfully restore VPN service. You should be able to connect via the Ivanti Secure Access Client as before. Thank you for your patience while we performed this critical maintenance.

If you were not already running the most up-to-date version of the client, you will need to update your client before continuing. The update should run automatically.

If you have any questions about which version you are running or if you run into any trouble, please contact the Help Desk at 610-526-7440 or help@brynmawr.edu.

A new zero day vulnerability has been discovered in the VPN software, Ivanti. LITS has disabled the VPN in order to apply a critical security patch. We’re working to restore service as quickly as possible but are unsure as to how long the outage will last.

Please contact the Help Desk with any questions: help@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-7440.

Update, 2/13, 12:30pm: This work has been completed. Please report any issues to the Help Desk. Thank you again for your patience.

Update, 2/12 6:45pm: Due to vendor availability, this work will need to be postponed. We will update everyone when a new date and time has been chosen. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Apporto will be unavailable from 6-7pm on Monday 2/12. During this time LITS will be working with our vendors to move to our new authentication system. After the upgrade, the Duo login screen will look slightly different.

Please report any questions or concerns to the Help Desk: help@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-7440.

Starting at 9am on Wednesday, 2/7, the wireless network in Batten and Brecon will be unavailable. During this time, LITS will be doing necessary work to prepare for the installation of new wireless access points. Thank you in advance for your patience

Please contact the Help Desk with any questions or concerns: help@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-7440.

Starting earlier today, community members started reporting issues connecting to and using Microsoft 365 services, including email and Teams. It seems that things are working, but slowly and intermittently. This is a nationwide issue and we are waiting for Microsoft to resolve things on their end.

We will post more as we know it. Please contact the Help Desk with any questions: help@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-7440.

Update, 12:35pm: Wireless connectivity in Radnor has been restored. Please report any lingering issues to the Help Desk. Thank you again for your patience!

This morning, LITS identified an issue with wireless connections in parts of Radnor dormitory. We are working as quickly as we are able to diagnose and resolve these issues. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Please contact the Help Desk with ay questions: help@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-7440

Update, 1/23/24 4:45 PM: This issue has been resolved. LITS has now reset the name of the Quickmail plugin. Thank you for your patience as we dealt with this problem.

In the most recent update, the course email plug-in formerly known as QuickMail changed to CLAMPMail, as show below.

It is the same tool with a new name. (CLAMP stands for the Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project, a consortium of liberal arts colleges that maintains it.)

Please contact the Help Desk with any questions or concerns: help@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-7440

Update, 4:10pm: Network access should be working normally. Please report any lingering issues to the Help Desk.

This afternoon, the wireless network in parts of Rockefeller dorm stopped working. LITS is actively working to diagnose and resolve the issue as quickly as we are able. Thank you in advance for your patience.

Please contact the Help Desk with any questions or concerns: help@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-7440

Starting late last week, community members began reporting that they were being asked to sign in to their desktop and mobile applications on a much more frequent basis. This is happening with all Office 365 applications, including Teams and Outlook. We are working with the vendor to assess the login settings and make changes to keep them consistent with expected behavior and campus policies. While we are working, you will need to continue to login with your username and password when prompted. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Please contact the Help Desk with questions: help@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-7440.