If you find yourself unable to log into MyUNM this weekend, don’t panic.
The MyUNM portal is undergoing an internal update in preparation for a later Banner upgrade, said Vanessa Baca, IT communication specialist.
“We are getting a new version of MyUNM in order for it to work in compliance with the new upgraded version of Banner 8,” she said. “The interface that we have now doesn’t have the correct components so that’s why we are doing it now, so that it will work with the Banner upgrade.”
The beneficial improvements to MyUNM may not be immediately obvious to users, Baca said.
“There won’t be any changes in what they see. It’s more of an internal system upgrade,” she said. “It allows more consistency in the e-mail services and less functional issues happening.”
The upgrades are mandated by the SunGard provider said Nancy Middlebrook, the project’s supervisor.
LoboWeb and UNM e-mail will still be available during the upgrade, Baca said.
“The number of actual functions that they won’t have access to will be very limited,” she said.
Linda Johansen, applications programming manager, said people tend to link the portal with LoboWeb but they are two distinctly separate programs.
“It’s kind of confusing since you use the portal to get to LoboWeb, so it’s easy to forget that they are two different things,” she said. “The portal upgrade will only affect LoboWeb during that Friday to Sunday time frame. The portal elements like tabs and groups will be in read-only mode Wednesday through Friday, but all the links will work like regular and the portal will look and act the same as always, so truthfully most people won’t even notice the difference.”
This weekend was chosen for MyUNM portal outage to ensure its completion before Spring Break, when the Banner system will also undergo changes, Middlebrook said.
“We realize its not the most convenient time for people but with these things there is no good time to take the system down,” she said. “A lot of times we try to do it over winter break but we couldn’t have done it by winter break this time around. We tried to pick the next best time with minimized impact on students and staff realizing that any time is going to impact people.”
*MyUNM will be down
Friday at 7 p.m. until Sunday at noon*
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