Thursday, January 27, 2011

New Google Apps login page coming

Coming soon to a website near you!
The old Google Apps login page for OSD is going away, to be replaced with one that looks cleaner and is easier to use on a mobile device.

Old:

New!

Zenworks Application Server fixed

Software launched from the Zenworks Application window should work correctly today. A server configuration issue was fixed late yesterday (Wednesday). If you have had problems with any software loading incorrectly of failing to load at all, please try it again today and see if it works.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

SchoolWorld public website scheduled outage

SchoolWorld will be performing server maintenance on Saturday, January 15, 2011 from 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM ET. This affects the www.OregonSD.org public website. While there will not be a complete outage during the maintenance window, connectivity will be sporadic during the required server reboots. We appreciate your understanding.

Google Calendar issues

We have received multiple reports of issues loading some (but not all) Google calendars. The problem appears to be intermittent and affecting seemingly random calendars. We're pursuing this with Google tech support.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Slow Internet today

UPDATE:
Internet is now back to full speed. If the Internet seems slow now, let us know, because it's not the bandwidth anymore.

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If the Internet seems slow to you today, it's because it is. Our main Internet connection went down yesterday (Tuesday, 1/4, around 1:15 PM). Fortunately, we installed a backup connection over Thanksgiving and configured it for automatic failover in case something like this should happen.

The primary and secondary connections work together to provide a combined total of 75 Mbps of bandwidth. When one goes down, the total bandwidth is reduced. The result is that right now we are running on 45 Mbps of bandwidth instead of 75, so your Internet access might seem slow.

(What's crazy is that five years ago, we had only 3 Mbps of bandwidth.)

We've been working with Charter to get the main connection working again. Thanks for your patience.