Latest News
(Wed, 09 May, 2012)
CNS will perform routine maintenance on the Wireless Identity Engine during system maintenance time, Wednesday 9th May 2012, 17h00-19h00.
Wireless access will not be available during this time.
CNS apologises for the inconvenience.
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(10 Apr, 2012) Please note that student printing in the computer labs on West Campus is currently unavailable. Student Interns have been unable to resolve the problem and therefore it has been escalated to the relevant team in CNS. Currently the cause of the problem is unknown. The problem was...
(Thu, 5 Apr 2012) On 2 April 2012 at 11h00 the staff email service was disrupted for 30 minutes. The system was overloaded and steps were taken to restore full system functionality. Service was fully restored at 11h30. The previous outage to this service was on 22 March 2012.
The Systems Support...
(Wed, 28 Mar, 2012)
CNS will be upgrading the network switches in Senate House. The approximate time required per installation is two (2) hours per stack. Please see the schedule below with regards the dates and times for the areas affected. In the event of other planned work...
(Wed, 28 Mar, 2012)
CNS will be carrying out testing on the name server during system maintenance period on Wednesday, 28 March, 2012 between 17h00 and 19h00. This may result in intermittent network issues for services that require DNS resolution.
CNS apologises for the...
(Fri, 23 Mar, 2012)
The problems with access to computers in CNS labs has been resolved, and services have returned to normal.
Updates on labs:
• Health Science Campus(Medical School):
o Lab 1A & 1B - Operational
• Wits Education Campus...
(Thu, 22 Mar, 2012)
During the scheduled weekly maintenance period, the updates to the computers of the CNS labs in a number of instances failed. As a result the computers in these labs are currently experiencing access problems.
The following computer labs are...
(Mon, 19 Mar, 2012)
CNS communicates news items and announcements via four main channels. These channels serve as the communications mechanism for CNS and any other department who would wish to send out any IT related information to the Wits community via CNS. These four channels of...
(Mon, 19 Mar, 2012)
The staff email system has been up and running since 17h00 on Sunday 18 March 2012. The stability of the system is being proactively monitored after changes were made to help stabilise the service. We continue in our efforts to ensure that we provide a stable...
(Fri, 16 Mar, 2012)
CNS apologises the inconvenience caused 16h00 Friday 16 March, 2012. CNS has engaged a partner to assist in resolving the current problems experienced on the system. At present 75% of users have full access to the mail. The estimated time of recovery for the 25%...
(Fri, 16 Mar, 2012) Staff email (Exchange) is currently still unavailable, Friday 16 March, 2012. At present a full system restore is in progress. The problem continues to receive highest priority on an on-going basis, and is being attended to currently.
CNS apologises for any inconvenience...
(Thu, 15 Mar, 2012)
Staff email (Exchange) has been gone down at 12h40, Thursday 15 March, 2012. The problem continues to receive highest priority on an on-going basis, and is being attended to currently.
CNS apologises for any inconvenience caused
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