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MyUW Service not available Saturday, 3/19/22 6am - 12p

Posted: 2022-03-15 07:48:47   Expiration: 2022-03-19 11:30:00

Disclaimer: This news item was originally posted on 2022-03-15 07:48:47. Its content may no longer be timely or accurate.

The MyUW application and portals will be unavailable for all UW-Madison and UW System Portal users from 6am - 12p on Saturday, 3/19/22. If users contact the DoIT Help Desk on Saturday for help with MyUW during the outage, help desk staff can help users get where they need by providing the direct link to the application, website or resource the user needs. 

The MyUW application and portals will be unavailable for all UW-Madison and UW System Portal users from 6am - 12p on Saturday, 3/19/22, while the myuprtlp Oracle database is upgraded to 19c. A banner has been posted in MyUW foreshadowing the downtime for users.

If users contact the DoIT Help Desk on Saturday for help with MyUW during the outage, help desk staff can help users get where they need by providing the direct link to the application, website or resource the user needs. 

  • The MyUW outage page (https://my.wisc.edu/500.html) provides the most visited links.

  • Searching keywords in wisc.edu may also provide the user with the application or resource they are looking for.

With a direct link, UW-Madison students, faculty and staff can still access almost all applications they need with the exception of the following services (also impacted by the upgrade):

UW-Madison DoIT employees can access STAR Time and Entry directly at https://my.wisc.edu/star/home

-- MyUW Madison: Laura Stella-Ames