Linux software mirrors will be down for maintenance during this period.

ICON (Canvas) will be switching to SAML login authentication on Sunday, June 8th 2025, from 8 to 9 am.  After this maintenance is complete, users who are currently logged into the ICON (Canvas) system may have to log themselves in again.

Network Engineering Services will be upgrading the campus wired infrastructure. During this upgrade wired and wireless connectivity will be down.

The F5 Local Traffic Managers (LTM) will be updated to the latest software release on our current branch for the ITF & LC data centers. No impact on services is expected. 

UPDATE: ITS Research Service has extended the maintenance until 8:00AM on June 6th due to unexpected technical issues. 

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Argon will be unavailable from 8:00 AM on June 4th until 8:00 AM on June 5th for maintenance. At the beginning of maintenance running jobs and active logins will be stopped. Access to the cluster will be unavailable for the duration of the maintenance. 

An update is planned for the sftp.iowa.uiowa.edu service.  The maintenance should only take a few minutes.

Beginning mid-June through mid-July, an optional feature to combine chats and channels in Microsoft Teams will be released. Once enabled, a self-guided onboarding flow will walk through the new layout and allow users to configure the view to their preferences.

Key features of this update include: 

• Unified chat and channel list
• Custom sections and favorites
• Improved filtering and @mentions view
• Streamlined message composition

Find additional info: New chat and channel experience (ITS support article) and Microsoft documentation

Network Engineering Services will be upgrading the campus wired infrastructure. During this upgrade wired and wireless connectivity will be down.

Network Engineering Services will be upgrading the campus wired infrastructure. During this upgrade wired and wireless connectivity will be down.