TO: Rice Faculty, Staff, and Students
FROM: The Office of the Vice Provost for Information Technology (IT)
DATE: June 19, 2009
SUBJECT: Reminder: Storage and Telephones offline 12 hours Friday Night
Outages scheduled for Friday, June 19, 2009:
STORAGE
Storage.rice.edu will be unavailable from 7:00 PM Friday until 7:00 AM Saturday. Department shares and user shares will be read only during most of the outage. If you normally use Microsoft Outlook, we recommend using Rice webmail (https://webmail.rice.edu/
) during this time.
TELEPHONES
In addition, the entire campus phone system will be unavailable for approximately 12 hours beginning at 7:00 PM Friday until 7:00 AM Saturday. Details are available online (http://www.rice.edu/it/telecom/).
There will be NO telephone service for ANY campus phone, including those in the elevators and those on the emergency communication poles with blue lights. No telephone service means no in-coming calls, no out-going calls, and no voice mail.
Critical Rice offices can be reached through the following contact lines:
RUPD (police) - 713.524.6194
Work Control - 713.942.3628
Central Plant - 713.942.3629
Emergency phones will be unavailable in ALL campus elevators. Elevators will be shut-down for campus use at 5:00 PM on Friday, June 19. Signage will be placed elevators one day prior to the outage reminding everyone of the outage. Elevators will be fully operational by 8:00 AM on Saturday, June 20.
During the telecommunications outage, elevator emergencies should be reported to the external Central Plant number, 713.942.3629.