Is Oregon State University down?

The OSU Wordpress site blogs.oregonstate.edu is currently down. We are looking into the issue.

The OSU Wordpress site is likely to be down for some time. We apologize for this disruption.

The blogs.oregonstate.edu site is expected to remain unavailable for an extended period. If you need to retrieve content from a blog site while the service is unavailable, please open a ticket with the Digital Experience team: beav.es/help

We have recovered from the security event that compromised OSU WordPress (blogs.oregonstate.edu). Several new security measures have been put in place to help prevent similar incidents from happening again. We understand the impact this may have had on those who use OSU WordPress for important web pages. Thank you for your patience while we took the steps needed to bring this service back safely. As a reminder: Even though an official retirement date has yet to be announced for the OSU WordPress service, we strongly encourage our user community to handle their web needs using OSU Drupal or other platforms like SharePoint, OSU Events Calendar, or other web hosting solution.

University Information and Technology will be applying necessary upgrades to Oracle on September, 5th, between 8 am and 5 pm. Banner and many related administrative OSU systems will be unavailable or have limited functionality during this window. What systems are affected? Administrative systems such as Banner, Online Services, AWA, and Degree Works may be affected and access to these systems will be interrupted during the maintenance window. The list of affected services includes: Academic Catalog (CAT); AWA; Banner; Banner Self-Service (Online Services); Banner Workflow; BeaverHub; Benny Hire; Benny Buy; Canvas (Some administrative functions not available); Clean Address; Curriculum Inventory Management (CIM); Degree Works (MyDegrees); EvalS; FormFusion; MyOregonState (some links will be unavailable); OSU Mobile (some data will be unavailable); Schedule of Classes (New Scheduler); TouchNet (will accept payments, however, payments will not be posted until Banner returns to service); Applications that use API calls to obtain data from Banner will be unable to retrieve data during maintenance.

The Oracle/Banner Maintenance scheduled for 9/5/26 has completed succesfully

We are receiving reports of issues with slow connectivity while connected to the OSU VPN. We are investigating the issue.

We are opening a support case with our vendor on this issue.

We are continuing to investigate this issue with the vendor.

We are continuing to work with the vendor to isolate the cause of ongoing VPN performance issues.

In coordination with the vendor, the Network team has implemented changes to improve the stability of the OSU VPN service. As a result, users may experience reduced performance for audio and video while connected to VPN. We recommend disconnecting from the VPN before joining Teams or Zoom calls, or when streaming video. We continue to investigate the root cause of the VPN issue and are working with the vendor to replace the existing VPN equipment with newer hardware. This upgrade will require many VPN users to update to a newer version of the Cisco client. Version 5.1.19 of the Cisco client is recommended. The UIT Endpoint team will push an update to the Cisco client for all OSU-managed computers. If you use VPN on a personal device, please update your Cisco client as soon as possible using the instructions in the VPN Setup Guide: https://mysupport.oregonstate.edu/esp?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0010667 If you need assistance, please contact the Service Desk at beav.es/help or by calling 541‑737‑8787. We apologize for the continued disruption.

The Network team will be replacing the VPN hardware tomorrow morning (9/4/26) starting at 7:00am.

OSU Community, UIT is making changes to improve stability of the OSU VPN service. We are continuing to work with Cisco to investigate the underlying issue. Beginning at noon today, Friday, September 4, VPN connections will be briefly interrupted. Please contact the Service Desk if you are unable to access all required resources after the interruption. If you need assistance, please contact the Service Desk at beav.es/help or by calling 541-737-8787. We apologize for the disruption.

The OSU VPN service has been restored. Users can now access the service as usual. UIT is monitoring the situation for any additional issues. If you experience continued problems, please contact the Service Desk at beav.es/help or by calling 541‑737‑8787.

Microsoft Fabric is currently experiencing performance issues impacting OSU’s PowerBI dashboards and other features supported by Fabric (such as Power Automate). This includes dashboards accessible through Fabric and some dashboards in CORE. Dashboards may be slow or unable to load, and data may be stale by one day. Microsoft is working to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

Mitigation actions have been implemented, and Microsoft has reported that recovery is underway across the service. PowerBI and other Fabric services are accessible, and the Data & Information Architecture team is restoring and validating the OSU Data Platform (university data and reporting services) and will share an update to IT Pros by end of today. We anticipate all data to be current by beginning of business tomorrow, August 28, 2026. If you or your users continue to experience issues, please contact the OSU IT Service Desk: [https://beav.es/datahelp](https://beav.es/datahelp).

This issue is resolved. All UIT Data Team services are operating normally.

We are currently experiencing an outage affecting the Events Calendar service. The issue has been identified as an expired SSL certificate, which is preventing access to the application for some users. Our team is actively working to renew the certificate and restore normal service. We will provide additional updates as they become available.

Update: We have completed the configuration changes required to renew the SSL certificate for the Events Calendar service, but the certificate has not yet been issued and the outage continues. A support ticket has been opened with Localist, and we are working with their team to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. We will continue to provide updates as new information becomes available.

The Events Calendar service has been restored and is operating normally. The SSL certificate issue has been resolved, and users should once again be able to access the service without interruption. We have verified that the site is functioning as expected and will continue to monitor the service to ensure stability. Thank you for your patience while we worked with Localist to resolve this issue. We apologize for the inconvenience.