Category Archives: Service Notifications

Scheduled Maintenance: Staff File Server – Saturday April 25

When?

Saturday, April 25, 2026, from 8:00 pm to 1:00am (Sunday, April 26, 2026)

Why?

To perform system upgrades.

What’s the impact?

During the maintenance window, staff files stored on the network file server will be unavailable. Staff will be impacted as follows:

  • H (Home) drive will be unavailable, as a network drive for on-campus PCs, VDI and through MyWorkDrive.
  • Use of on-campus desktop PCs will not be available without an H: drive
  • Use of VDI PCs will not be available without an H: drive
Access to all forms of Office 365 file storage (OneDrive, MS Teams, and SharePoint) will not be impacted.

Note:

  • Staff are advised to log off or shut down their on-campus desktop PCs at the end of day on Friday April 24th.

Scheduled Maintenance: Account Login Services

When?

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026 – 7:00 to 10:00 pm

Why?

To perform regular maintenance.

What’s the impact?

During the maintenance window above, users may be unable to perform new logins to Fleming applications that use the common single sign-on (SSO) interface shown below. This includes MyCampus, D2L, Evolve/PeopleSoft, Office 365, VPN, MyWorkDrive and other SSO-enabled services.

Fall 2026 Student Software Image – Software Requests

When?

Due before Friday, June 5th, 2026

What?

We are asking Fleming College faculty and academic technologists to review our Student Desktop PC software listing with the lens of modernizing and updating the current student desktop software offering. Where possible, we should be replacing aged software with more current software that evolves with current computing environments, industry use and related curriculum.

Why?

Fleming ITS is beginning the annual task of preparing the software image used to refresh all common-use student PCs every August. As part of this summer’s deployment the Windows operating system is being upgraded to Windows 11. As part of the annual update exercise you can request:

  • New software to be added
  • A version upgrade to an existing application
  • Removal of software no longer required by your program

Please do so by submitting a TDX ticket using the Student Desktop Application Changes page.
The cut-off date for software request submissions will be June 5th, 2026. This gives ITS department time to build, test and deploy the new image to all common-use student workstations at the College, prior to the start of the fall semester.

 

Planned Updates – Software to be Removed from the 2026 Student Image:

The applications listed below will be removed from the student image in an effort to standardize, simplify, optimize performance and strengthen security posture. Please alert us if you anticipate any negative consequences as a part of these planned changes:

  • Remove the full desktop version of Outlook and transition to the  Outlook Progressive Web App (PWA)  for student use. Please indicate if you’re aware of any courses or curriculum that requires the full desktop version of Outlook or uses the “mail merge” functionality.
  • Remove Zoom in favour of Microsoft Teams and Cisco WebEx as the College’s preferred meeting and collaboration platforms. Students can still attend the occasional external Zoom meeting as required using the Zoom join from a browser feature.
  • Remove Firefox web browser while retaining Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, to better align with browser market share in 2026.

Support

We are happy to assist you!
Please use our contact information below if you need our help.

For more information, contact
IT Service Desk
https://tdx.flemingcollege.ca/
1-866-353-6464 x4111 Option #1
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Scheduled Maintenance: Haliburton Campus Wireless (Wi-Fi) Network Upgrade | Thursday March 26th & Friday March 27, 2026 (2 Days)

When?

Thursday, March 26th and Friday March 27th 2026 (2 Days)

Why?

To upgrade the Haliburton’s campus wireless (Wi-Fi) network infrastructure.

What’s the impact?

Fleming’s on-campus wireless (Wi-Fi) service will experience short, intermittent outages during this maintenance window.

After the upgrade, the next time you connect to Fleming’s Wi-Fi service, your device may ask you to confirm the connection information and/or trust a new certificate – which is safe to do as part of this upgrade. More guidance on troubleshooting wireless connectivity can be found here: Article – Help Connecting to Fleming.

Launch of new Microsoft Teams Integration on Cisco Webex Devices

When?

Tuesday March 10th

What is it?

Fleming College has added integration that enables Microsoft Teams on Cisco devices.  This integration enhances the device users experience when they join Microsoft Teams meeting hosted at Fleming.

Webex meeting experience – multi screen with flexible layout options

participant list showing both Microsoft and video integration participants

Bi-directional content sharing between the device and Microsoft Teams

Meeting status indicators on the device, including recording, transcription and participant waiting in the lobby

This integration also provides the one button to push (OBTP)

Why?

Fleming supports 2 video conferencing applications, Microsoft Teams, and Cisco Webex, and meeting rooms contain Cisco Webex devices, this licensing allows users to seamlessly choose which application they want to use to host their meeting that leverages the hardware in the space.

How?

As of March 10th, when a Teams meeting is created, there will be a new portion of the meeting invite at the bottom.

When you click on “More Info”

To get the OBTP feature in a meeting room, when sending the Teams invite, add the room as a participant.

Scheduled Maintenance: Student File Server – Saturday March 7

When?

Saturday, March 7, 2026, from 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm.

Why?

To perform system upgrades.

What’s the impact?

During the maintenance window, student files stored the network file server will be unavailable. Students will be impacted as follows:

  • H (Home) drive will be unavailable, both as a network drive for on-campus PCs and through MyWorkDrive.
  • Logins to on-campus student PCs will be unavailable, as the H-drive is required to provide a consistent desktop experience across all student computers.
Access to all forms of Office 365 file storage (OneDrive, MS Teams, and SharePoint) will not be impacted.

Scheduled Maintenance: Wireless (Wi-Fi) Network Upgrade | Saturday March 7, 2026 from 2:00 to 6:00 pm

When?

Saturday, March 7, 2026, from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm.

Why?

To upgrade the College’s wireless (Wi-Fi) network infrastructure.

What’s the impact?

Fleming’s on-campus wireless (Wi-Fi) service will experience short, intermittent outages during this maintenance window.

After the upgrade, the next time you connect to Fleming’s Wi-Fi service, your device may ask you to confirm the connection information and/or trust a new certificate – which is safe to do as part of this upgrade. More guidance on troubleshooting wireless connectivity can be found here: Article – Help Connecting to Fleming.