Show New I I Crashes on First Day Jeren W. W Canning Campus and be new I It t will improved it will be better it will be more than it was user friendly some of the thet These were that were made I comments made in regards to the upgrade than thana No more of My g ga the new after day a first system g got its is test the mail e-mail system t 4 t w- w crashed i to an mail email A According Bill from Administrative Director the Computing hardware failed evening of f the during 21 After this happened happened hap hap- March server the See 6 continued on page continued from front was overloaded with return messages causing the mail e-mail system of to basically collapse on itself The mail e-mail said This problem caused the portal server to fail because of the amount of network traffic produced by the mail e-mail server As a result to all of these problems the entire system shut down several times during March 22 this caused campus wide connectivity problems to the por por- tal is the replacement for the old server The upgrade to occurred over Spring Break The school chose this time to update the system because not many students students students stu stu- dents would be using the system system system tem during spring break The Theother Theother Theother other option was to update the system during the summer when only a fraction of the classes are in session The school decided against this plan because many students are registering for classes throughout the summer The first day that was back in session after spring break March 21 the system the problems It was really annoying to me because I had to get into my email email email e- e mail to get an assignment a teacher had sent me said Dan Clubb student I 1 know the old system had problems too but this new system isn't as user friendly as they made it seem I hardly ever use my mail e-mail account just for that reason reason reason rea rea- son I finally gave up and set up upa a account and use that instead said student Tyler Birtcher As of March 23 the system was up and running again OIT 0 IT has restored the mail e-mail server and corrected various various various var var- ious technical issues with the portal said in his e We are experiencing a variety of technical difficulties which we are working through With plus students attending and every one of those students having a school mail e-mail address possible problems with the new system were not unexpected |