Entries by Bob Martens

Equifax Data Breach

On Thursday, September 8, 2017, Equifax announced a cybersecurity incident which could have lead to the release of information of up to 143 million individuals. Personal information has been compromised in this case including name, social security numbers, birth dates, and other personal information. Here are some steps you can take: Watch your financial accounts […]

Drive File Stream launching soon for MLC users

Google has announced that Drive File Stream, their replacement for the Google Drive desktop application, will be launching on September 12, 2017. This will not affect your usage of Google Drive from a web browser, but it will bring changes if you use the desktop application to access files stored in Google Drive. The current […]

MLC and ALHSO Moodle Upgrade Complete

Taking far less than the entire day, the MLC and ALHSO Moodle instances have now been upgraded and the database server backing both of them has been migrated to a newer operating system. All services should be back online, so please let us know if anything is not working as desired. Thank you for your […]

Status Update: Network Outage on July 31, 2017

There was a power outage on campus tonight which knocked our network out for an extended period of time. This affected all services hosted by MLC and internet access on campus. As of 9:16 pm, all services should be back up and running at full capacity. If you notice any issues, please let me know […]

MLC and ALHSO Moodle Upgrade Announcement

On Wednesday, August 2, 2017, both the MLC and ALHSO Moodle instance will be offline for some major upgrades and updates both to the Moodle software and underlying infrastructure serving both online campuses. These upgrades will take the better part of the day on Wednesday, from 8 am to around 3:30 pm or so. Please […]

Portal Authentication Changes Launched

Late on July 24, 2017, change to Portal authentication were pushed out to all users. In the past you simply entered your username and password into the appropriate fields and were able to log into Portal. However, where there used to be fields for your username and password you will now find a single Login […]

Micro Focus Filr Upgrade Coming Up

We utilize Micro Focus Filr here at MLC for remote access to files located on our file servers. This weekend (July 21-23, 2017) we will be upgrading our Filr instances to the latest version and this will require some downtime over the course of the weekend. During the downtime, if you are utilizing the Filr […]

Status Update: BigBlueButton Upgrade Completed

The BigBlueButton upgrade was completed earlier than expected and without any complications. As soon as DNS propagates, everything should work as expected. If you notice performance or other issues with BigBlueButton at MLC, please contact Network Services. Thank you! Posted from: http://status.mlc-wels.edu/post/162536596234