On 06.02.2025 between 07.30 a.m. and 09.00 a.m.

The central MariaDB cluster will be updated during the specified period. The following services are affected by this action: SSO, electronic telephone book, TUParken and 2FA administration. Due to the redundant design of the system, no outage is expected.

On 29.01.2025 between 7.00 and 9.00 a.m.

The IDM and TU-LDAP servers are being upgraded. During this maintenance work, individual functions in the IDM portal may be temporarily unavailable. There may also be delays in processing changes. However, authentication via SSO and TU-LDAP will remain possible throughout.

On 04.02.2025 between 08.00 a.m. and 12.00 p.m.

+++ 04.02.2025 02.51 p.m.: The maintenance work has been successfully completed. +++ The websites of TU Darmstadt won't be available for about 5 to 10 minutes during the maintenance window due to work on the WCMS cluster (Web Content Management System Cluster). Changes made in the content management system will only be activated after the maintenance work has been completed. This means that no changes will be visible on the websites until then.

On 25.01.2025 between 08.00 a.m. and 05.00 p.m.

Maintenance work is taking place during the specified period. The system will not be available during this time.

On 21.01.2025 between 7.30 and 09.00 a.m.

+++ Update 20.01.2025: Due to an update of the TeXLive version on the Sharelatex server, it is temporarily unavailable. The original maintenance time has been shortened by one hour. +++ Original message: During this period, the server version of ShareLaTeX will be updated to version 5.2.1 and the database will be updated to V6. During this time, the server is not available and a restart is required.

Störung behoben

+++Update vom 11.01.25 um 11:43 Uhr: Die Störung ist behoben. Sharelatex ist wieder erreichbar.+++ Nach dem Backup fuhr das Sharelatex Cluster nicht mehr hoch.

On 14.01.2025 06.00 a.m. until 15.01.2025 8.00 p.m.

During this period, the TSM backup service will be down due to maintenance work on the TSM server.

Bitte beachten Sie, dass ab dem 10.01.2025 ein neuer Zertifikatsanbieter namens HARICA den aktuellen Anbieter Sectigo ablöst. Wir bitten um Verständnis, dass in der Übergangszeit einige Verzögerungen bei der Ausstellung der Zertifikate vorkommen könnten. Die neuen Prozesse stehen noch nicht endgültig fest. Sobald diese feststehen, werden wir sie auf der HRZ Seite [1] dokumentieren. Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der entsprechenden HRZ-News Seite [2]. [1] https://www.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de/pki [2] https://www.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de/hrz_aktuelles/news_details_175360.de.jsp

Top rating for the Active Directory infrastructure at TU Darmstadt

The Active Directory infrastructure has been audited by external experts – with excellent results.

MySite Office Dokumente lassen sich nicht öffnen

Activation of DKIM for tu-darmstadt.de on 06.01.2025

On 06.01.2025, the DKIM authentication procedure will be activated for the email addresses on the central tu-darmstadt.de domain.

By default, Sharelatex uses Tex version 2017 after a configuration change due to an IT security problem. Please select Tex version 2023 or 2024 again under “Settings” and recompile your project.

Changed service times from 23.12.2024 to 03.01.2025

The university computing centre will have limited availability during the Christmas season and New Year, which may result in delays in processing requests.

On 17.12.2024 from 7.00 to 8.00 a.m.

+++ 17.12.2024 07.55 a.m.: The maintenance work has been successfully completed. +++ During this period, a minor update to the latest Moodle version will be installed. The Moodle system will be unavailable for a maximum of one hour. It is also not possible to login into Mahara and Panopto.

On 21.12.2024 between 08.00 a.m. and 13.00 p.m.

Maintenance work is taking place during the specified period. The system will not be available during this time.

On 13.12.2024 from 11.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m.

Maintenance work will be carried out during this period, including the update to version 5.1.11.

On 12.12.2024 between 5:00 and 06:00 p.m.

+++ Update 05.12.2024 09:30 am: Maintenance work is postponed from 05.12.2024 to 12.12.2024. +++ During this period, the Alcatel telephones in S3|06 (Hans-Busch-Institut) will be down due to maintenance work.

Between 17.12.2024 6.30 a.m. and 18.12.2024 11.00 p.m.

During this period, maintenance work will be carried out on the TSM servers and the GPFS file system. For this reason, the service will not be available during this period.

On 26.11.2024 from 2.00 to 2.30 p.m.

Due to a software update, the service is not available for a few minutes during the specified period.

Save the dates: 30.4. and 7.11.2025

We cordially invite you to the established ‘AdminDays’ in 2025, which promote the exchange between the University Computing Centre and the IT admins of the departments, institutes and central facilities of TU Darmstadt.