Over Memorial Day Weekend there will be a 24-hour outage for the data centers, starting Saturday May 24th at 8:00 am. During this time all network equipment and servers will be disconnected for approximately 24 hours (this includes email, Internet, Banner, OneCard, Micros, Blackboard, Library, Spider Management, academic research servers/clusters, VPN, etc). Please note that Blackboard will not be available during the outage period so we suggest downloading all materials (such as articles, PDFs, PPTs, etc) necessary for your course prior to the outage so that you will be able to continue to work OFFLINE during the outage. You will not be able to take assessments, upload assignments, contribute to discussion boards, or anything within the Blackboard application.
If you have any problems after the outage, please contact blackboard@richmond.edu. If you have questions regarding the outage, please refer to http://is.richmond.edu/network-internet/2014-network/OutageSchedule.html.