Skip to Main Content
You are now in the main content area

CCS Scheduled Maintenance and Outages

Preventative Maintenance includes a variety of activities necessary to keep information and technology services running, such as software patches, fixes and upgrades, hardware upgrade. Additional outages may occur as a result of unforeseen hardware or software issues. In these cases, CCS strives to provide as much notice as possible.

No alternate service will be available if a system or an application is not available due to the scheduled maintenance or outage, unless explicitly indicated in the table below for the particular system/application.

Scheduled Changes


Application/ Service              
Reocurring Maintenance		 Scheduled Maintenance
Adobe AEM (CQ)                                                                             

Every Thursday from 6 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. 

Thursday, May 16, 6:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
Applying assorted fixes and features to CQ.
User Impact: None expected since there are two legs of the servers, www.ryerson.ca won't be affected.
Alfresco (choose.ryerson applicant portal) Daily 4 a.m. - 5 a.m.

 

CFAPS

 Last Friday of each month 6 a.m. - 8 a.m.  
Citrix N/A  
eHR Daily 1:05 a.m. - 1:30 a.m.  
Learning Management System Every Friday 6 a.m. - 8 a.m.  
Magic N/A  

my.ryerson portal

 Every Friday 6 a.m. - 8 a.m.

Friday, May 17, 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.
Removing Gmail opt-in popup in the my.ryerson portal.
User Impact: Access to my.ryerson portal will be intermittent during this period.
OneCard N/A  
RAMSS Daily midnight - 1:00 a.m.

 

RMail

Every Friday 6 a.m. - 8 a.m.

  
RMS, Account activation and Self Service Every Friday 6 a.m. - 8 a.m

Friday, May 17, 6:00 a.m. to 6:30 a.m.
Updating RMS. Any new email account will be created in GMail. No more options for new users to use RMail.
User Impact: Access to Activation, Self Serve and Administration will be intermittent.   
RU-VPN2

N/A

  
RUFIS Daily 10:45 p.m. - 1:05 a.m.  
Virtual Applications Daily 2:30 a.m. - 3 a.m.  

Additional Scheduled Changes

  • Wednesday, May 15, 10:00 p.m. to Wednesday, May 29, 11:59 p.m.
    Updating firmware on network switches across campus.
    User Impact: The upgrade and outage for each stack/location will take upward of 30 minutes. There will be no security, BAS, wired, wireless or VoIP/SIP telephone networks available in the announced locations during the upgrade time. Announcements will be done via MAFs and direct e-mail communication with affected faculty, admin areas, etc.
  • Thursday, May 16, 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
    Enabling secondary instructor webservice.
    User Impact: There will be an outage of 2 hrs to accommodate this change and clients have notified their users.  
  • Friday, May 17, 6:00 a.m. to 6:30 a.m.
    Upgrading Tomcat on ADS production server.
    User Impact: No access to the following apps during this period:
    • Curriculum Assistant
    • Academic Consideration
    • Academic Appeals
    • Onecard Photo upload
    • Go Transit
    • Student Initiative Funding
    • Academic Plan
    • Honorary Doctorate
    • Tutor Marketplace
    • FCAD/Creative Industries Internship
    • Early Childhood Studies
    • CCS Forms
    • RyeCast
  • Friday, May 17, 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.
    Updating CAS.
    User Impact: CAS will be down for about 10 minutes. Users already logged in will not be impacted.
  • Friday, May 17, 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
    Updating the Oracle servers.
    User Impact: All applications hosted on cf.ryerson.ca and the following will be unavailable during this period:
    • Curriculum Assistant
    • Academic Consideration
    • Academic Appeals
    • Onecard Photo upload
    • Go Transit
    • Student Initiative Funding
    • Academic Plan
    • Honorary Doctorate
    • Tutor Marketplace
    • FCAD/Creative Industries Internship
    • Early Childhood Studies
    • CCS Forms
    • RyeCast

  • Friday, May 24, 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
    Upgrading CAS.
    User Impact: CAS will be down for about 15 minutes, and full server capacity will resume within 1 hour. Users already logged in will not be impacted.
  • Saturday, May 25, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
    Upgrading HR server.
    User Impact: eHR will be down during the outage times.

 

 Please email jbhathal@ryerson.ca and jbuchanan@ryerson.ca to report completion, postponement or cancellation of any change.

Click here for Previous Changes.