News
Scheduled Network Testing July 25
On Sunday, July 25, 2021 between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., the Division of Information Technology will conduct a series of disaster recovery tests focusing on core portions of the network. The State Office of Legislative Audits requires that disaster recovery planning and testing be conducted annually. Conducting such tests is essential to ensuring that IT services can withstand failure large and small.
Planned Outage of IT Services August 1, 2021
Many UMD IT services will be intermittently unavailable on August 1 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
New UMD Zoom Features
University of Maryland community members can now enter their preferred display name and pronouns in the UMD Zoom platform. These options are available on the Zoom Profile page, and instructions are provided in this support article: Change Your Display Name and Add Pronouns in Zoom. Note that the chosen display name and pronouns will be retained rather than being mapped every time the user signs into Zoom using the UMD Central Authentication System (CAS).
New UMD VPN Service Now Available
UMD’s current Cisco AnyConnect virtual private networking (VPN) service will be retired on October 15, 2021. Its replacement is GlobalProtect VPN, which is now available to UMD community members. If you use UMD's VPN service, we encourage you to switch as soon as possible!
Webex Video Conferencing Service to End in 2022
The University of Maryland’s centrally provided Webex Web Conferencing service will be discontinued June 15, 2022. The service has provided video and audio conferencing for university community members for several years, but given the fiscal constraints of continued state budget cuts, it is not prudent to continue paying for multiple overlapping services.
Spring 2021 Dell Bulk Buy
The Spring 2021 Dell bulk buy period for UMD institutional purchases is available through July 30, 2021. The bulk buy discount is 5 to 7% off on select configurations. Shopping through UMD’s e-procurement system, Shell Shop, is the recommended method for purchasing devices from this promotion. Alternatively, Dell has created a special Premier website for this bulk purchase timeframe like they have for previous bulk buy promotions; however, the Premier website now requires registration.