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Wayne Connect unavailable during system maintenance, Jan. 6 January 4, 2013

Scheduled system maintenance will be performed on Wayne Connect from 2 a.m. to 8 a.m., Sunday, January 6. Wayne Connect will NOT be available during this time. You may be experiencing difficulty...

Race and ethnicity survey for students logging in to Wayne Connect December 17, 2012

Students are currently being asked to define their race and ethnicity when logging in to Wayne Connect. As a public university, Wayne State is federally required to disclose the race and...

Wayne Connect upgrade Sunday, Oct. 21 October 11, 2012

Wayne State Students, Faculty, and Staff: Wayne Connect will not be available Sunday, October 21, from 12:01 a.m. to 8 a.m., while the Wayne Connect system software is being upgraded. Note: You will...

Upgrade Zimbra Connector for Outlook (ZCO) now September 28, 2012

Wayne Connect will be upgraded on Sunday, October 21, with a server-side upgrade to Zimbra v7.0.x.  New features include:   •       Outgoing mail filters - apply the...

Hotmail lifts block against email from Wayne Connect August 23, 2012

Microsoft's block against email from Wayne Connect has been lifted. You should be able to send to Hotmail email addresses without getting an "undeliverable" message. The problem stemmed...

Hotmail is blocking email from Wayne Connect August 18, 2012

If you have sent an email from your Wayne Connect account to a Hotmail, MSN, or Live.com email address during the past week, you probably had it bounce back as "undeliverable." The reason...

Wayne Connect email performance restored August 17, 2012

The degraded performance of the Wayne Connect email system has been resolved. System changes were successfully made Thursday evening by Wayne State's outsourced cloud email service provider,...

Wayne Connect error message "mail.TRY_AGAIN" August 15, 2012

As the Wayne Connect hardware upgrade project winds down, users may see a misleading error message when they send an email: An unknown error (mail.TRY_AGAIN) has occurred There is no need to resend...

Update about Wayne Connect email performance, Aug 14 August 14, 2012

Over the past several days, we have periodically experienced degraded performance from the Wayne Connect email system. Please understand that Wayne State's outsourced cloud email service...

Autocomplete problem resolved -- Wayne Connect May 21, 2012

The Wayne Connect emergency maintenance was successfully completed early on Saturday, May 19.  The system maintenance was needed to address a problem using Wayne Connect via a web browser, where...

Emergency maintenance -- Wayne Connect -- May 19, 1 - 5am May 17, 2012

C&IT has scheduled emergency maintenance on the Wayne Connect Email system during the early morning hours on Saturday, May 19. The system and all applications (email, calendars, etc.) will be...

Wayne Connect Upgrade Postponed May 16, 2012

Wayne Connect upgrade postponed until May 29, 2012.  Check back for details.

Autocomplete failed! error message in Wayne Connect May 15, 2012

The Wayne Connect email system has been experiencing an intermittent problem that began on Monday, May 14.  You may have seen the error message Autocomplete failed! when typing an email...

Wayne Connect upgrade to take place evenings and weekends beginning May 11 May 4, 2012

Staff from Computing & Information Technology (C&IT) and Merit Networks will upgrade the hardware that runs Wayne Connect Email (Zimbra) during evenings and weekends, beginning Friday, May 11...