Tag: ITS Notices

Dear HLS Faculty and Staff, Verizon will be performing VoIP phone maintenance that will impact phone service.  The maintenance is scheduled to start on Friday, November 5, 2021, at 10:00 pm and last until 2:00 am Saturday, November 6, 2021.  Beginning at 11:00 pm, calls in progress will be interrupted.  Calls may be impacted for […]

Dear HLS Faculty and Staff, Verizon will be performing Harvard VoIP Phone maintenance events that will impact Jabber and the online Harvard Phone Account Portal. What is happening? From Friday, August 6, 2021 at 11:00 PM through Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 11:00 PM the online Harvard Phone Account Portal will be unavailable to process […]

Dear HLS Faculty and Staff, Verizon will be conducting Harvard Phone maintenance on Tuesday, July 27th from 7:00PM -12:00AM that will impact Jabber phone service and the online Harvard Phone Portal. **Please note that VoIP phone service and phone settings (call forwarding and single number reach) will not be affected. What do I need to […]

Dear HLS Faculty and Staff, This notice is concerning a maintenance event that will impact VoIP and Jabber phone service. What is happening? VoIP phone service and Jabber users connected to the Harvard network in Pound Hall and 50 Church St. will lose service for approximately 1 hour and experience periodic outages on Tuesday, July […]

Dear HLS Faculty and Staff, Harvard VoIP platform maintenance is scheduled on Thursday April 22, 2021, from 10:05 PM to 12:45 AM.  From 10:05 PM to 10:20 PM, there will be a 5-minute interruption in phone service to and from Jabber and physical desk sets. During the 5-minute interruption: Inbound/outbound calls in progress will drop […]

Dear HLS Faculty and Staff, Harvard VoIP platform maintenance is scheduled on Thursday April 15, 2021, from 10:15 PM to 10:45 PM.  From 8:00 PM to 8:15 PM, there will be a 5-minute interruption in phone service to and from Jabber and physical desk sets. During the 5-minute interruption: Inbound/outbound calls in progress will drop […]

Cisco recently released a critical update to the Windows and Mac Jabber desktop client.  Please upgrade to the newest version of Jabber (14) to patch a security vulnerability as soon as possible.  The updated software can be found in the HLS software library.  To download the software, login using your HarvardKey credentials. Please note, this update […]

Dear HLS Faculty and Staff, Harvard VoIP platform maintenance is scheduled to occur on Friday, March 26, 2021, from 2:00 AM to 2:15 AM.  During this 15-minute maintenance window phone calls in progress that are made from Jabber or VoIP desk sets will drop.  Normal phone service will resume following this event. If you have […]

Dear HLS Faculty and Staff, Harvard Phone maintenance is scheduled to begin on Friday, March 12, 2021 at 10:00 PM and end on Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 5:00 PM.  The Harvard Phone platform will be updated to implement the Apple Push Notification Service to maintain updates to Apple devices. Please note the following Harvard […]

Hello, Harvard University IT will be conducting Jabber maintenance events on Wednesday February 24, 2021 from 7:00 pm through 12:00 am, and Thursday February 25, 2021 from 7:00 pm through 12:00 am. During the event Jabber softphone users may need to sign out and sign back into the service to clear the connection.  Also, some calls […]

Cisco recently released a critical update to the Windows and Mac Jabber desktop client.  Please upgrade to the newest version of Jabber (12.9.3 for PC, 12.9.4 for MAC) to patch a security vulnerability as soon as possible.  The updated software can be found in the HLS software library.  To download the software, enter your username […]

Beginning Friday, May 10th at 10:00 PM through Monday, May 13th at 7:00 AM, Verizon will complete scheduled maintenance on the Harvard VoIP system. At the same time, the VoIP phone directory will be replaced.

This maintenance has been cancelled until further notice.

Verizon will be completing maintenance on the Harvard Phone Portal tonight, February 19, 2019, from 7pm – 9pm.  Please do not login to the portal and make changes during this time frame. Thank you, HLS ITS  

On Tuesday, March 13, 2018 between 5:00 am and 7:00 am, HUIT will be conducting routine maintenance to the campus wide wireless network infrastructure. During this period, wireless network connectivity will be unavailable for all of HLS. 

Working remotely but not sure how to access your work related files or email? Visiting another school and need network access? Here are some tools you may need or want to use when working away from HLS.