You may experience problems navigating to, or logging in to, D2L and MU Video on Wednesday, January 4, and Thursday, January 5, 2017. If these interruptions do occur, they should be brief.
What May Be Interrupted
If brief outages occur, you may experience problems:
- loading the Millersville University homepage (www.millersville.edu)
- logging in to D2L using the "Login" button
- logging in to MU Video
What Will Not Be Interrupted
Even if on-campus outages occur:
- D2L will remain online. It runs in its own, off-campus data center.
- MU Video will remain online. It runs in its own, separate, off-campus data center.
- You will still be able to log in to D2L, just not by using the "Login" button.
Additionally:
- D2L logins by Kutztown students using the "InCommon Login" button will not be interrupted.
- D2L logins by Shippensburg students, by guests, and by others who normally use the "Guest Login" link will not be interrupted.
- If you are already logged in to D2L or MU Video before the start of a service interruption, the interruption will not affect you. You will be able to continue to work in the system.
How to Work Around Interruptions
If the Millersville University homepage becomes unreachable
Go directly to D2L: https://millersville.desire2learn.com/
If you experience problems logging in to D2L using the "Login" button
Follow the "Guest Login" link instead, and then use the same username and password you do with the "Login" button.
If you experience problems logging in to MU Video
Use "My Media" in D2L (found within the navbar's Content menu) to add or create new items in MU Video. Or wait for Millersville IT staff to restore MU Video logins.
Reason for Potential Interruptions
During first week of January 2017, Millersville Information Technology staff will move campus servers to a new data center within Boyer Hall. Millersville University outgrew its old data center, also in Boyer Hall, and now must migrate to its new, modern, better equipped facility.
IT staff have carefully planned this move to avoid interrupting access to the Millersville University homepage and to a key login server used by both D2L and MU Video. However, if problems arise during the move, the homepage, or the login server, could go offline.
As both the university homepage and login servers are clearly critical systems, if they do go offline, IT staff will restore them as quickly as possible. Therefore, any interruptions that do occur should be brief.
Questions?
Please contact the IT Help Desk.