There will be casual short breaks on network connections during summer due to the construction of new campus network.

Metropolias´s network drive system is under maintenance on Tuesday June 26, 2018 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.

The maintenance involves some outages from 5 to 10 minutes to working of all network drives (drive U, home directories etc.).

There is a maintenance break on Remote Desktop System desktop.metropolia.fi and securedesktop.metropolia.fi from Juni 12 to 15, 2018 due to updating the system to newer version.

After the maintenance break we recommend installing the new VMware Horizon Client for staff on computers of their own. You can find the client on http://securedesktop.metropolia.fi.

Updates are installed automatically on computers administered by Metropolia.



Metropolia's IT systems are under maintenance on Tuesday May 29, 2018 from 4:00pm to midnight.

There are short outages on most IT systems provided by Metropolia, among other things next

 

finance and personnel systems

email

Skype for Business

network drives

webdisk

O365 logging

desktop virtualization (desktop and securedesktop)

educloud service of teaching

 

There are outages on data communication connections of all Metropolia campuses on Tuesday May 22, 2018 from 4:00pm to 10:00pm due to maintenance work of the backbone.

All IT Services provided by Metropolia and Internet connection are occasionally out of use during maintenance work.

There are outages on data communication connections of all Metropolia campuses on Tuesday May 8, 2018 from 4:00pm to 10:00pm due to maintenance work of the backbone.

All IT Services provided by Metropolia and Internet connection are occasionally out of use during maintenance work.

iMac-sale for students in Arabia

Metropolia is selling 10 pcs of used iMac-computers and peripherals. Price is determined by model and overall condition.

Location and time: Arabia: Hämeentie 135, Helsinki, April 20, 2018 from noon to 2:00pm

Further information

 

The April issue of the Information Management in Metropolia e-zine is out, focusing on the latest news on the information systems and online services used in Metropolia. The bulletin is in Finnish but quick highlights in English are provided. 

There are outages on data communication connections of all campuses on Tuesday April 3, 2018 from 4:00pm to 10:00pm due to program updating of backbone. IT Services and Internet access provided by Metropolia are periodically unused.

Metropia´s IT Services are under maintenance during weekend from March 17 to 18, 2018.

Due to this maintenance work we have outages according to schedule below. Services may be slower than normally during weekend.

 

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Wireless network

Email

Skype for Business

Finance and personnel system

Logging services of workstations

 

Sunday, March 18, 2018

Wireless network

Email

Windows servers of teaching

Cloud services

Logging services used by web browser such as oma.metropolia.fi

 

 

 

OMA version will be updated at 4 pm. - 5 pm. The update will include bugs fixes.

Due to update system, there can be some short service breaks in OMA (approx. 1 - 5 minutes) from 4 pm. to 5 pm.


IT Services

 

The February issue of the Information Management in Metropolia e-zine is out, focusing on the latest news on the information systems and online services used in Metropolia.

The bulletin is in Finnish but quick highlights in English are provided.

https://wiki.metropolia.fi/display/tietohallinto/2018.02+-+Tiedonhallintaa+Metropoliassa

Metropolia´s remote desktop system Desktop.metropolia.fi / Securedesktop.metropolia.fi is under maintenance from February 20 2:00 pm to February 21 4:00 pm.

The maintenance involves some outages to working of system and may involve restartings of virtual machines.

You must save your works often, we can´t send warnings of restartings and outages beforehand.

Metropolias´s network system is under maintenance on Tuesday February 20, 2018 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.

The maintenance involves some short outages to working of home directories and common network drives.

Abbreviated dialling system of Metropolia (Privatel) is removed from use beginning from February 12, 2018.

In the future we can phone to normal telephone numbers.

Removing of abbreviated dialling system is caused of saving costs and minor use