COMPLETED: Planned Outage: Denison SHARED, PERSONAL, MEDIA Network Drives Unavailable from 8/16 at 10PM to 8/18 at Noon

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Update on 8/18/19 at 12:20am:

Planned upgrades were completed on SHARED (aka “S:”), PERSONAL (aka “U:”) and MEDIA (aka “M:”) network drives. Please report any issues to the ITS Help Desk at 740-587-6395 or helpdesk@denison.edu (see www.denison.edu/its/helpdesk for hours).

Update on 8/17/19 at 3:00pm:

The infrastructure upgrade has been completed on SHARED and MEDIA network drives, and they returned to normal operation. Work continues on the PERSONAL network drive, and the updates will be posted as they become available.

Original post:

Beginning Friday, August 16th at 10:00pm, ITS will begin upgrading the file server infrastructure that provides SHARED (aka “S:”), PERSONAL (aka “U:”) and MEDIA (aka “M:”) network drives. During this maintenance period, Shared, Personal, and Media network drives will be unavailable. We expect access to be restored by Sunday, August 18th at noon.

IMPORTANT! Please save your work and log off your computer (or disconnect from the network drives on your Mac) when you leave campus on Friday, August 16th. Any file changes made on these drives during this period will be lost. 

If you need assistance disconnecting or ensuring files are properly stored, please contact the ITS Help Desk at 740-587-6395 or helpdesk@denison.edu.