In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 18, 2025 - 20:00 EDT
Scheduled - Computing and Communication Services (CCS) will perform essential maintenance on the campus network from 8:00 PM on Friday, July 18, 2025, to 1:00 AM on Saturday, July 19, 2025. A network outage of up to 30 minutes is expected around 11:00PM on July 18. Specific buildings will experience this interruption. A detailed list of impacted buildings has been sent in a separate email.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the CCS Help Center at x58888 or 58888help@uoguelph.ca.
Jul 18, 202520:00 - Jul 19, 202501:00 EDT
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CCS will be performing vendor-recommended software updates to the campus wireless systems to support new wireless hardware and features, from Saturday, July 19 at 10:00 p.m. to Sunday, July 20 at 6:00 a.m. Several short interruptions (approximately five minutes each) of wireless services are expected during this maintenance window. Posted on
Jul 09, 2025 - 17:14 EDT
The CFS Active Directory domain will be undergoing maintenance. No service interruption is expected.
The CFS Active Directory domain is the main Microsoft Windows Active Directory domain on campus. CFS AD is primarily used to authenticate users to computers and provide file and print services. It is also used to synchronize users and provide user authentication to other systems, such as secure WiFi (uog-wifi-secure and eduroam), VPN, and telephony and voicemail services. Posted on
Jul 11, 2025 - 15:39 EDT
As part of the Telephony Migration Project, we are planning two brief maintenance windows to support the ongoing transition to the Cisco cloud-based phone system:
• Friday, July 25, 2025 – 09:00 PM to 12:00 AM • Sunday, July 27, 2025 – 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Will this affect me? During each window, all desk phones across the Guelph and Ridgetown campuses will reset twice.
Expected impact: brief phone downtime of approximately 1–2 minutes per reset.
What should I do? No action is required from users.
Questions? We appreciate your cooperation and understanding as we implement these necessary improvements. If you have any concerns, please contact the CCS Help Centre at uoguel.ph/IThelp. Posted on
Jul 17, 2025 - 10:40 EDT
On July 26th, from 12 am to 4 am, CCS will be making change to the campus DNS service infrastructure. This change is part of our continuing effort to migrate to private IP addresses and consolidate our remaining public IP address space.
What is being changed during this maintenance window?
• The DNS server settings for IP addresses 131.104.136.11 (asterix.net.uoguelph.ca) will be changed to 131.104.88.11. • The DHCP configuration will be modified with new IP addresses. • Systems using 131.104.136.11 as DNS server will have DNS service interruption.
Note: The DNS servers at 131.104.20.10 (obelix.net.uoguelph.ca) and 131.104.88.10 (willow.net.uoguelph.ca) will remain unchanged.
What action is required?
Most users will not be affected. No action is required if your systems use DHCP (automatically assigned IP addresses and DNS servers). The Network Infrastructure team will update DHCP configurations to reflect these changes automatically.
Action is required only for systems with manually configured static IP addresses. This typically includes: • Servers (physical and virtual) • Specialized workstations • Network equipment • Other systems with static network configurations. If you manage systems with static IP addresses, you will need to update the DNS server settings from 131.104.136.11 to 131.104.88.10 before July 26th. Posted on
Jul 15, 2025 - 11:47 EDT
As part of the Telephony Migration Project, we are planning two brief maintenance windows to support the ongoing transition to the Cisco cloud-based phone system:
• Friday, July 25, 2025 – 09:00 PM to 12:00 AM • Sunday, July 27, 2025 – 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Will this affect me? During each window, all desk phones across the Guelph and Ridgetown campuses will reset twice.
Expected impact: brief phone downtime of approximately 1–2 minutes per reset.
What should I do? No action is required from users.
Questions? We appreciate your cooperation and understanding as we implement these necessary improvements. If you have any concerns, please contact the CCS Help Centre at uoguel.ph/IThelp. Posted on
Jul 17, 2025 - 10:42 EDT
Completed -
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 17, 08:00 EDT
In progress -
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 17, 06:00 EDT
Scheduled -
The CFS Active Directory domain will be undergoing maintenance. No service interruption is expected.
The CFS Active Directory domain is the main Microsoft Windows Active Directory domain on campus. CFS AD is primarily used to authenticate users to computers and provide file and print services. It is also used to synchronize users and provide user authentication to other systems, such as secure WiFi (uog-wifi-secure and eduroam), VPN, and telephony and voicemail services.
Jul 11, 15:38 EDT
Completed -
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 15, 08:00 EDT
In progress -
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 15, 06:00 EDT
Scheduled -
On Tuesday, July 15, from 6 to 8 a.m., CCS will be renewing the SSL certificate for the wireless authentication servers. As a result of this change, when users access campus WiFi at any U of G campus after July 15, including main campus, Ridgetown campus, and the University of Guelph-Humber, there will be some action required for them to connect to their appropriate campus network (uog-wifi-secure and eduroam).
We will be sending a mass email that includes the user instructions below.
What will happen when users access campus WiFi after July 15:
Most users will be prompted: Upon first attempt to connect, most devices will see a one-time-only certificate warning. Users will simply need to accept the new certificate when prompted to do so and should then be able to connect.
For users who are not prompted: Certain devices may not prompt users to accept the new certificate. These users will need to manually reconfigure their devices to join, based on their regular WiFi network.
Ideally users do not wait to be prompted and follow the instructions below prior to July 15. This can be done from home and will apply the new certificate. It should provide a seamless connection upon return to campus and will avoid security risks when they go to accept the certificate. If they do wait and accept the certificate after July 15, please encourage your users to verifying the certificate against the information on this CCS network requirements page: https://uoguelphca.sharepoint.com/sites/ccs/SitePages/internet-phones/wireless-internet/wireless-requirements.aspx?
How to manually configure user devices to join:
The majority of Guelph campus users who use uog-wifi-secure should access the JoinNow tool prior to July 15 by following the instructions at https://www.uoguelph.ca/ccs/securewireless
Users at University of Guelph-Humber and others who use Eduroam should use the Eduroam-CAT tool prior to July 15 by following the instructions at https://cat.eduroam.org/
As we do not know which devices will be prompted and which will not, we highly recommend users reconfigure their devices before July 15 using the links provided above.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the CCS Help Centre at IThelp@uoguelph.ca.
Jul 7, 11:29 EDT
Resolved -
This incident has been resolved.
Jul 11, 13:13 EDT
Monitoring -
We believe that the issues causing WebAdvisor to respond very slowly have been resolved. CCS will continue to monitor and investigate the cause of this issue.
Jul 11, 10:26 EDT
Update -
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Jul 11, 09:59 EDT
Investigating -
CCS is investigating issues with slow response time with WebAdvisor.
Jul 11, 09:55 EDT
Resolved -
Microsoft has applied the configuration and considers the mailbox access issue resolved.
If you are continuing to experience issues accessing mail via Outlook then please contact CCS Help, ithelp@uoguelph.ca.
Jul 10, 16:14 EDT
Update -
Update [12:32pm]: Microsoft reports that they are applying 'a configuration change' to address issue with accessing Outlook mailboxes. They expect the change to take effect within the next 2 hours.
Microsoft will provide another update at 2:30pm today.
Jul 10, 12:40 EDT
Monitoring -
CCS is monitoring an issue Microsoft has reported that is prevented some users from accessing their uoguelph.ca mailboxes.
According to Microsoft, "Users attempting to access their Exchange Online mailbox using any connection methods may be impacted."
The CCS Help Center is aware of the issue and CCS Email and Collaboration team will continue to monitor Microsoft's progress as they continue to address the issue. Updates when available will be shared throughout the day.
Jul 10, 10:53 EDT
Resolved -
This incident has been resolved.
Jul 8, 23:56 EDT
Monitoring -
The network connectivity to Ridgetown campus has been restored around 6pm. We are still closely monitoring the situation at this moment.
Jul 8, 18:47 EDT
Update -
Internet services in Ridgetown remain unavailable at this time. The issue has been identified as an infrastructure problem with Cogeco, the ISP local in the Ridgetown area.
CCS will continue to monitor the situation and provide an update here, once services have been restored.
We appreciate your patience.
Jul 8, 16:27 EDT
Identified -
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
Jul 8, 16:25 EDT
Investigating -
Ridgetown campus internet is down since around 10:50am. We are investigating this issue.
Jul 8, 11:04 EDT
Resolved -
We have worked with the vendor on a permanent fix and we consider this problem resolved.
We appreciate your patience and support during this service interruption.
Jul 8, 17:00 EDT
Monitoring -
We have identified the cause of the issue and continue to monitor the situation.
The service is back online with a temporary fix.
We will provide updates on this page until resolution of the issue. Next update will be at approximately Monday July 7, 2025
We appreciate your patience and support as we work to resolve this issue.
Jul 5, 14:08 EDT
Investigating -
We are experiencing a Gryph Forms sign in problem as of yesterday evening. We are currently investigating the cause of this issue. When attempting to sign in, an error message is displayed: "Sign in - Sorry, but we're having trouble signing you in." A more technical error message is also displayed.
We will provide updates on this page until resolution of the issue.
We appreciate your patience and support as we work to resolve this issue.
Jul 5, 09:05 EDT
Completed -
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 5, 21:00 EDT
In progress -
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 5, 18:00 EDT
Scheduled -
As part of the ongoing Telephony Migration Project, we will perform maintenance next Saturday, July 5, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM to support the new Guelph Campus cloud-based phone system and its ability to dial out from all devices.
Planned Impact: • All desk phones, Jabber devices, and analog lines at the Guelph Campus as well as Ridgetown Campus will experience intermittent service disruptions during the maintenance window. • Expected impact: Temporary phone service interruptions lasting the duration of this maintenance may occur for affected devices. • No action is required from users. This step is critical to enable seamless migration and dual registration between systems. We appreciate your cooperation and understanding as we implement these necessary improvements. If you have any questions, please contact me or the CCS Help Centre at uoguel.ph/IThelp.
Jun 25, 12:27 EDT