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Jan. 17 at 6:30 p.m.

As of 6 p.m. all university administrative systems are back online and functioning normally.  System Administrators will focus on bringing the remaining research related systems back online this evening.

Our heartfelt thanks go to the University Systems team who have worked tirelessly today to resolve these issues.

We will provide our next update on Sunday morning.


Jan. 17 at 3:00 p.m.

University Systems staff continue to make progress on bringing impacted systems and services back online.

Wired and wireless networks are now functioning normally. Note that M365, Email, and BrightSpace are not impacted by this issue.

We are working as quickly as we can, however, some systems and services will not be back online until later this evening.

We’ll continue to update you as information becomes available.


Jan. 17 at 1:00 p.m.

An unexpected power outage in the data centre has impacted many technical services at UVic, including Banner and FAST.

University Systems and Facilities Management are working together to restore all services as soon as possible.

We will share more updates as soon as they’re available. Thanks for your patience. 

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