Has this ever happened at your, er, institution of higher learning? During registration week?
(11/14/07) 10:10 am Banner and Registration Outage Update
We are experiencing hardware storage problems that affect the availability of all Banner production systems, including the web self service applications for faculty and students. We are in a recovery process and expect to bring services back on-line by mid-day. ...
(11/14/07) 10:50 am Email Outage
We are experiencing problems with email at this time. We hope to have these issues resolved by early afternoon.(11/14/07) 2:35 pm Novell is being taken down at 2:40pm
The Novell server is being taken down at 2:40pm in order to resolve some of the issues that we have been experiencing today. Problems with banner and email remain and will likely last the rest of the afternoon. ...(11/14/07) 3:15 pm Banner, Registration, and E-Mail Outage Update
Based on continuing system issues and estimated recovery time, the Banner production and web systems will unavailable until Thursday, November 15th. ...(11/15/07) 8:00 am Banner, Registration, and E-Mail Outage Update
Campus Email systems are currently offline. The recovery of the Banner production systems, including the web self service applications for faculty and students is in process.
The good news is that I get a lot of real work done when email is down. The bad news is those emails are piling up, hopefully. The last time this happened, a recent weekend and monday, we lost emails on Saturday. They were able to recover the addresses of those who sent us emails. Very helpful (sarc).