Universities of Wisconsin Administration facilitates the advancement of the support and implementation of information technology and library services in learning and administration across all Universities of Wisconsin campuses.

Planned System Outages

Systemwide IT outages

  1. CCI Fiber Splicing - Eau Claire, WI (Day 4 of 4)

    From 07:00 to 20:00 Tuesday July 22nd through Friday July 25th, CCI will be splicing dark fiber strands on the CINC network (in the Eau Claire metro area). Though not expected to be service affecting, the work does involve fiber cables shared by BOREAS, WiscNet, UWSysnet and WISDOT. Depending on the day of the week and exact strands being worked on, the following groupings of UWSysnet circuits could be impacted: Group 1 UWEC:STOUT:UWSN111 UWEC:SUPER:UWSN110 UWEC:MINN:UWSN004 UWEC:UWRF:UWSN112 Group 2 UWEC:LAX:UWSN109 MAD-ANI:UWEC:UWSN003 UWEC:WIDEL:UWSN205 Group 3 MILW:UWEC:UWSN0005 UWEC:MARS:UWSN214 UWEC:UWGB:UWSN118 UWEC:UWO:UWSN120 UWEC:UWSP-SSC:UWSN119

  1. WisDOT Fiber Maintenance - I-43 and Atkinson

    **Update, 7/25/25** This fiber maintenance was service impacting for the circuits listed from 1043 to 1322. On Friday July 25th 2025 from 0900 to 1500 hours CDT WisDOT contractors will be working on WisDOT cables and devices near Atkinson and I-43 in Milwaukee. Although this work is not expected to be service affecting, in the event of an outage the following UWSysNet circuits would be affected: Madison to Milwaukee: MAD:CHIC:UWSN006-1 MAD:MILW-809:UWSN123-1 MAD:MILW:UWSN002-1 MAD:MILW:UWSN002-2 MILW:PLT-KAR:UWSN105 MILW:UWW-GDH:UWSN104-1 MILW:WAUK:UWSN200-3 Oshkosh to Milwaukee: BOREAS Sheboygan-EMS Research Wave MILW:SHEB:UWSN223-1 (MAN to EMS 01) MILW:SHEB:UWSN223-2 (MAN to EMS 02) MILW:SHEB:UWSN223-3 (MAN to EMS 03) MILW:SHEB:UWSN223-4 MILW:SHEB:UWSN223-5 MILW:SHEB:UWSN223-6 MILW:UWEC:UWSN0005-1 MILW:UWEC:UWSN0005-2 MILW:UWSP:UWSN117-1

  1. WiscWeb Outage

    The WiscWeb service will be undergoing maintenance at this time. WiscWeb sites will see a brief outage followed by a few minutes where sites will be in 'Read-Only' mode and changes made will not be saved. This update impacts the following websites: WiscWeb: https://kb.wisc.edu/wiscweb/113730 CALS: https://kb.wisc.edu/wiscweb/136798 School of Ed: https://kb.wisc.edu/wiscweb/136799

  1. WiscWeb Outage

    The WiscWeb service will be undergoing maintenance at this time. WiscWeb sites will see a brief outage followed by a few minutes where sites will be in 'Read-Only' mode and changes made will not be saved. This update impacts the following websites: WiscWeb: https://kb.wisc.edu/wiscweb/113730 CALS: https://kb.wisc.edu/wiscweb/136798 School of Ed: https://kb.wisc.edu/wiscweb/136799

  1. Low Code Solutions: Betty Blocks Maintenance

    Azure will be retiring their Basic Load Balancer SKU on 30 September 2025. In this maintenance window we will be upgrading from the Basic Load Balancer SKU to the Standard Load Balancer SKU with the migration tooling provided by Azure. This will come with approximately 60 minutes of downtime during the maintenance window Also, during this release window we will be performing AKS upgrades on the UW-Madison tenant with downtime of approximately 30 minutes.