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SharePoint Online (SPO) is a free, cloud-based service on Office 365 available to colleges, departments and organizations for storing, sharing and managing files, content, knowledge, and applications with both internal and external team members/collaborators. SharePoint should be considered by colleges, departments or workgroups for file storage, intranets, on and off-campus collaboration, project management, Business Intelligence data gathering and reporting and enterprise social networking.

  • 1TB storage quota
  • Safe for Level I, II and III data
  • Full support for AD Groups for permissions
  • Access sites/files via browser, local data sync or mobile app

Current Status

There are currently no alerts.

Maintenance

Services scheduled for maintenance over the next 7 days. Please refer to the calendar view of alerts for a complete schedule.
There is currently no planned maintenance.

Past 90 Days

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Alert History

Start: 
Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 9:00am
End: 
Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 11:00am
Updates
Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 11:00am

These issues have been resolved. 

Description

Users may be unable to render SharePoint Online pages or may experience a blank page. 

Last updated: 
Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 11:04am
Start: 
Thursday, November 21, 2019 - 1:45pm
End: 
Friday, November 22, 2019 - 8:30am
Updates
Friday, November 22, 2019 - 8:45am

Access to SharePoint sites and OneDrive has been restored. 

Description

Some users are not able to connect to SharePoint sites or OneDrive. Microsoft is working on the problem.

Last updated: 
Friday, November 22, 2019 - 8:45am
Start: 
Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - 2:15pm
End: 
Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 11:15am
Description

We are currently experiencing problems with Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive for Business.

Last updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 12:02pm
Start: 
Monday, September 16, 2019 - 8:30am
End: 
Monday, September 16, 2019 - 9:15am
Updates
Monday, September 16, 2019 - 9:15am

Service has been restored - please contact the ITS Help Desk if you have any further issues using these services.

Description

We are currently experiencing problems with Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive for Business.

Last updated: 
Monday, September 16, 2019 - 9:11am
Start: 
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 3:00pm
End: 
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 6:15pm
Updates
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 6:15pm

Microsoft has verified that these issues have been resolved.  Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you have any further issues with this service.

Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 4:15pm

These services are now back to operational and ITS support staff will continue to monitor them.

Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 4:00pm

SharePoint online sites are currently offline and OneDrive online storage is experiencing problems. Microsoft is investigating these issues.

Description

All SharePoint online sites are currently offline. ITS is working with Microsoft on the issue.

Last updated: 
Friday, May 3, 2019 - 10:23am
Start: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 1:15pm
End: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 2:30pm
Updates
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 2:30pm

This issue has been resolved.

Description

All SharePoint online sites are currently offline. ITS is working with Microsoft on the issue. 

Last updated: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 2:43pm
Start: 
Monday, April 8, 2019 - 6:00pm
End: 
Monday, April 8, 2019 - 8:00pm
Description

The SharePoint 2013 service, sharepoint.uiowa.edu, will be down for required maintenance. 

Last updated: 
Monday, April 8, 2019 - 8:00pm
Start: 
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 10:15am
End: 
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 4:15pm
Updates
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 4:15pm

This issue has been resolved.

Description

Users may experience intermittent delays when accessing SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business sites. Microsoft is aware of the issues. 

Last updated: 
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 4:15pm
Start: 
Monday, October 22, 2018 - 12:00pm
End: 
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 8:45am
Updates
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 8:45am

This issue has been resolved.

Description

Users may experience intermittent delays or navigation errors when accessing SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business sites  

Microsoft is currently deploying a fix for the issue.

Last updated: 
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 8:50am
Start: 
Friday, June 22, 2018 - 8:45am
End: 
Monday, July 9, 2018 - 10:30am
Description

UPDATE: This issue is resolved. 

 

Original Notice: Users may be unable to check-out, delete, restore prior versions, or rename newly created documents on OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online sites when using Chrome v67.x. 

Microsoft has determined this is an issue specific to Chrome (Windows and Mac) and recommends using another browser until the issue is fixed in Chrome (the issue is not seen in Chrome Beta v68.x).

Last updated: 
Monday, July 9, 2018 - 10:53am
Start: 
Friday, April 20, 2018 - 8:30am
End: 
Friday, April 20, 2018 - 10:45am
Updates
Friday, April 20, 2018 - 10:45am

This issue has been resolved. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you experience any further issues.

Description

SharePoint 2013 (sharepoint.uiowa.edu) is down and the issue is being investigated.

Last updated: 
Friday, April 20, 2018 - 10:46am
Start: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 - 5:00pm
End: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 - 6:00pm
Description

The SharePoint 2013 service (sharepoint.uiowa.edu) will undergo required maintenance.

All sites will be offline and unavailable during the maintenance window.

Last updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 - 6:00pm
Start: 
Thursday, January 11, 2018 - 5:00pm
End: 
Thursday, January 11, 2018 - 6:15pm
Description

The SharePoint 2013 service (sharepoint.uiowa.edu) will undergo required maintenance.

The ability to open and edit files in a browser will be impacted, however, downloading and editing files will continue to work normally.

All sites will remain available during the maintenance window.

Last updated: 
Friday, January 12, 2018 - 4:24pm
Start: 
Thursday, October 12, 2017 - 10:45am
End: 
Thursday, October 12, 2017 - 1:30pm
Description

Update: This issue has been resolved.

 

Original Notice: The SharePoint 2013 search service is currently not functioning correctly and is undergoing diagnostics and repair to restore the service.

This issue impacts searches on all sites hosted on the platform (sharepoint.uiowa.edu).

Last updated: 
Thursday, October 12, 2017 - 1:36pm
Start: 
Thursday, August 17, 2017 - 8:00pm
End: 
Friday, August 18, 2017 - 12:00am
Description

Microsoft will be performing maintenance on SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business to increase datacenter capacity.

 

During this time, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business content will be Read-Only.

Last updated: 
Friday, August 18, 2017 - 12:00am