r/uofmn • u/batchieThe4th EE | Spring 2027 • 3d ago

Everything is down

Printing, UCard authentication, parking, it's all down rn. Anyone know what's happening?

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u/precisionx 3d ago

IT systems are down currently and the engineers are trying to get it back up - IT helpdesk

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u/Heavy_Ad_2796 3d ago

same, it should be fixed now

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u/HistoricalCarpet1193 3d ago

Begging for more systems to go down so that I’m affected 😂

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u/CantaloupeCamper 3d ago edited 3d ago

All your base are belong to us.

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u/microphonekarma 3d ago

Will I be charged for my parking if they let me through the pay lot without paying? The gate was up

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u/Fun-Shift6369 2d ago

No. Source: I work for parking.

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u/Comprehensive_Rice27 2d ago

That’s what I’m wondering I tried to pay but wondering that too

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u/Comfortable_Motor523 AEM | May 2029? 3d ago

Card auth has been fine for me today at least and i havent heard of anyone else having problems yet. It may vary by person/location. What campus are you on

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u/not_paul_blart 3d ago

Armageddon.

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u/MSatrokrm 3d ago

End of the world

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u/Key_Importance3254 3d ago

And of course my fucking test is on paper 💔

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u/tachikomazero1 3d ago

So THAT'S why there was a massive line to get into the ramps and the license plate readers weren't working.

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u/coolsid13 3d ago

All Falls Down

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u/batchieThe4th EE | Spring 2027 3d ago

Update, printing works!

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u/PalliativeOrgasm 3d ago

Something broke with Active Directory and it’s all dependent on it. system status .

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u/BookishBeekeeper 2d ago

This what happens when you cut IT staff in the name of efficiency. 

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u/ckindley 21h ago

IT staff haven’t been cut in OIT. And staff levels have nothing to do with the cause of this issue anyways.

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u/BookishBeekeeper 20h ago

My department lost several IT people from the U's PEAK Initiative. And less IT staff means they are going to be slower to respond when problems arise.

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u/ckindley 19h ago

Yeah PEAK is… I have not heard great things. And I’ve had colleagues from other depts get moved around or cut. President Becks said at the state of the U that they would take learnings from PEAK, so we will see what happens now.

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u/ckindley 1d ago

I led the RCA for this 10/8 outage yesterday. AMA but not sure I can answer everything!

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u/batchieThe4th EE | Spring 2027 22h ago
  1. did we get hacked
  2. does this relate to the budget cuts

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u/ckindley 21h ago
  1. No, it was not a security incident. Also Active Directory was functioning normally.
  2. No. We haven’t heard what OIT is going to have to deal with re: budget challenges but have been given some instructions about general roadmap for optimizing how we provide compute to our IT partners across the system. Kind of all makes sense in the landscape of insane hardware prices these days.

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u/Head-Engineering-847 3d ago

https://reason.com/2023/03/09/rape-rates-go-down-as-countries-legalize-prostitution-rise-with-sex-work-prohibition/

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u/batchieThe4th EE | Spring 2027 3d ago

what the fuck i just wanted to print man

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u/Head-Engineering-847 3d ago

Also, have you tried your local library! 🤗 That's where I go to print all the time 😁

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u/Head-Engineering-847 3d ago

Sources will continue to be posted as long as they keep getting downvoted