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News and Updates

• 6/28/10 - Connect 6 can no longer be used to publish content or schedule meetings.
  On July 1, 2010 hosting meetings will be discontinued on Connect 6.
• 6/24/10 - Adobe Connect 7.5 is now in use. Schedule meetings and Publish Presentations in Connect 7.5 only. Update your saved settings in your browser and Adobe Presenter.
  Connect 6 can no longer be used to publish content. Hosting meetings will soon be discontinued on Connect 6. 
  Connect 6 will soon be archived. If you haven't had your content migrated yet do so ASAP.
  Detailed information is available on the FAQ page.

Archived News and Updates

• Monday, July 19, 12 noon METNET Services Restored -  Connect is available. E-mail is still being restored after System problem from earlier today.
• Sunday, July 18,  6 AM-noon - System maintenance is scheduled. Access to Connect and e-mail will not be available.
• 6/23/10 - Hosting meetings and publishing content will be discontinued on Connect 6.  Adobe Connect 7.5 is now in use. Schedule meetings and Publish Presentations in Connect 7.5 only. Update your saved settings in your browser and Adobe Presenter.
  Connect 6 will soon be archived. If you haven't had your content migrated yet do so ASAP. 
  Detailed information is available on the FAQ page.
• 6/1/10 - Adobe Connect 7.5 is now in use. Schedule meetings and Publish Presentations in Connect 7.5 only. Update your saved settings in your browser and Adobe Presenter. If you haven't had your content migrated yet do so ASAP.  Detailed information is available on the FAQ page.
• 5/26/10 - The METNET Connect-support website will be down Thurs, May 27 7:30 - 9:30 AM. Log in to Connect meetings using the meeting room URL. Alternatively, go to http://breeze5.metnet.edu/ .
• 5/1/10 - Planning for transition to Adobe Connect 7.5 is now in progress. Implementation is planned for June, 2010. Detailed information is available on the FAQ page.
• 10/12/09 - METNET Services Outage Scheduled Sat., Oct. 24, 2 AM - Sun., Oct. 25, 7 AM  - Important utility work will be performed on the data center at the U of MN West Bank Office Building where METNET equipment is housed. All METNET Services including E-MAIL, Connect Meeting and Presenter publishing are included in this outage.
  
  Communications During Event - During the outage, visit http://systemstatus.umn.edu/view/Main/OutageInfo for up-to-date information about progress of the construction and system restart activities. In addition, the System Status page will be updated throughout the weekend to reflect the status of individual applications: http://systemstatus.umn.edu/view/Main.
   
• 7/17/09 - On Monday July 20, 9:30- 10:00 P.M. - Server maintenance will be done. A brief outage will occur. Users may experience a problem with login during this time.
• 6/1/09 - On Sunday June 7, 6:00 AM - noon. During this time, METNET applications may be sporadically unavailable for use. Each application may be down for up to 90 minutes at some point throughout the day. There will be an outage in a data center housing METNET equipment while engineers perform maintenance on network switches.
• 10/24/08 - The update to Connect 6 to allow Flash 10 player is now completed.
• 10/23/08 - The Adobe Flash 10 player is incompatible with Connect 6. It is recommended that Connect users not install Flash 10 at this time. More information.
• On Sunday, Aug. 24 METNET services will not be available from 8 - 10 AM. System maintenance will be done. 8/22/08
• Update: Service restored. Login is not working. Technicians are working to correct this. No ETR at this time. - 8/13/08
• Update: Service restored. Connect is Not Available. - 7/01/08 A fire in a transformer caused a power outage. Xcel Energy is on site working to correct the problem. We anticipate that Connect will be unavailable for the remainder of the day and service will be restored by Wednesday, July 2
• Connect (Breeze) Updated Dec. 28, 2007 More information. - 12/28/07
• Connect (Breeze) Unavailable Dec. 28, 2007 More information. - 12/20/07
• Connect (Breeze) Unavailable June 22, 2007 More information. - 6/19/07
• Breeze will Unavailable Tuesday, Apr. 17, 2007 from approximately 5 - 5:30 PM while server maintenance is done. - 4/17/07
• Breeze services will be unavailable Fri., Mar. 9, 12 noon - 5 PM - 3/07/07
• Breeze services will be unavailable Sun., Mar. 11, 6 AM - 2 PM - 2/27/07
• Breeze is now Connect 6
• Breeze services will be unavailable Wed., Jan. 31, 10 AM - 5 PM - 1/29/07
• SSL Turned Off for Breeze - 11/01/06
• Breeze will be unavailable on Friday, 12/29/06 starting at 3 PM while server maintenance is done. - 12/28/06
• Breeze Recording Playback Now Functioning Normally - 12/04/06
• Breeze Meeting Recordings Not Fully Loading - 11/02/06
• Breeze Not Available Nov. 5, 2006 - 10/31/06
• Breeze 4.1 Services No Longer Available - 10/2/06
• Breeze 4.1 Goes Offline October 2, 2006 - 9/18/06
• Breeze 4.1 Publishing and New Meetings No Longer Available - 8/14/06
• Update to Breeze Presenter 5.1 - 8/09/06
• Breeze 4.1 To Go Offline - 7/28/06
• Breeze Unavailable Sept. 27, 2006 3 - 3:30 PM - 9/27/06
• Breeze Unavailable Sept. 8, 2006 8-8:30 AM - 9/6/06
• Breeze Unavailable Aug. 17, 2006 - 8/10/06
• Breeze Unavailable Thursday, July 27 5 PM - 7/25/06
• COMET Accounts Have Been Restored - 6/07/06
• COMET Accounts Temporarily Unavailable - 6/02/06
• Breeze Server Changes - 5/19/06
• Breeze Services Unavailable Sunday, May 21, 10 AM - 1 PM - 5/10/06
• Breeze Services Unavailable Saturday, May 20, 6 AM - 4 PM - 5/10/06
• Breeze Services Unavailable Tuesday, May 16, 6 - 8 PM - 5/10/06
• Breeze Unavailable March 18, 2006 - 3/3/06
• Breeze 5.1 Now Available - 2/6/06
• Update on Breeze 5.1 Launch - 1/30/06
• Breeze 5.1 Available Feb. 6, 2006 - 1/23/06