Re: Scheduled IT Maintenance Sat 7/30, 7 - 11 am EDT

From: Mohan Ramanujan <mohan_at_nber.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 07:05:40 -0400 (EDT)

Hello Everybody,

This is just a notification that we are about to commence our operations.
We will send a subsequent email when we finish up our work. As noted,
many functionalities are likely to become available sooner.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Alex, Erin, & Mohan


On Tue, 26 Jul 2022, Erin Richardson wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> On Saturday, July 30, IT will be performing critical maintenance in three areas impacting staff.
>
> From 7:00am to 7:15am, your Remote Desktop tunnel to your office PC will be disrupted during this time. If
> you wait a few minutes and then try to log in again you should be able to return to your RDP desktop as it
> was before.
>
> During the maintenance window 7:00am to 11:00am, we will be taking the mysql database server down for an
> extended period. During that time, you will not be able to make any updates to the database, such as using
> admin/tools.
>
> Lastly, during this window 7:00am to 11:00am, the mail server will be upgraded. Email to and from NBER
> accounts will be unavailable.  Emails will be queued at the sender or destination servers and will be
> delivered when the server comes back up.  
>
> We do not expect the maintenance to take the entire window and will post an update when the services are
> restored.
>
> We apologize for any inconvenience. Please contact it-support_at_nber.org if you have questions or concerns.
> Best regards,
>
> Erin Richardson
> Director of Information Technology
> National Bureau of Economic Research
> 1050 Massachusetts Avenue
> Cambridge, MA 02138
> evrichardson_at_nber.org
> (617) 588-0364
>
>
Received on Sat Jul 30 2022 - 07:05:57 EDT