Welcome
The University IT Services ("RZ") is the IT service provider for the University of Freiburg. The RZ has been the central operating facility since 1966. We provide the IT infrastructure for the university. On our web pages you will find all information about our tasks and services.
Further instructions and information regarding our services are available in the RZ-Wiki (currently available only in German).
Current Announcements
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| Title | Creation Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 28 October 2025, 20:12: Issue resolved, authentication service ‘keycloak’ was still disrupted. | Oct 28, 2025 07:16 PM | #ufrstatus #stoerung The problem causing the failure of some services has been identified and the malfunction has now been rectified. All services are available again as normal. |
| 28 October 2025, 17:40: Partial failure (Auth)/service infrastructure (firewall) | Oct 28, 2025 05:43 PM | #ufrstatus At the moment, access to some services and certain services themselves is disrupted. This seems to be related in a broader sense to central services such as the proxy (in the VMware ESX infrastructure). Many services are accessible, but not all. Among others, the authentication server (for the new IAM) and related services are affected. |
| 27 October 2025, 15:42: Open WebUI maintenance successfully completed | Oct 27, 2025 02:44 PM | #ufrstatus #wartung Maintenance of Open WebUI and updating of the server operating system have been successfully completed. Thank you for your understanding. |
| 27 October 2025, 3:14 p.m.: myAccount maintenance break on 28 October 2025 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. | Oct 27, 2025 02:17 PM | #ufrstatus #wartung On 28 October 2025, the myAccount service will unfortunately be unavailable from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. due to maintenance work. |
| 2025-10-24 16:26: Emergency update for critical vulnerability in Microsoft WSUS (CVE-2025-59287) | Oct 24, 2025 04:33 PM | #ufrstatus The CVE-2025-59287 vulnerability allows remote execution of arbitrary program code and was already addressed on the last patch day, but according to the manufacturer, it was not completely closed at that time. A proof-of-concept for exploiting the vulnerability is now publicly known. Potentially affected systems at the University of Freiburg have been identified and mitigation of the vulnerability has been initiated. |
| 30 October 2025, 3:30–5:30 p.m.: Maintenance work on the new Exchange environment | Oct 24, 2025 10:53 AM | #ufrstatus #wartung On Thursday, 30 October 2025, between 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., we will be performing maintenance work on the new Exchange environment. |
| 05.11.2025 from 4 p.m. - Renewal of the ZUV firewall | Oct 23, 2025 04:38 PM | #ufrstatus #wartung #stoerung On Wednesday, 5 November 2025, starting at 4 p.m., we will be upgrading the existing firewall of the Central University Administration (ZUV). This will interrupt all connections to and from the administrative networks. In particular, campus management (HISinOne) and VPN access to the administration will also be unavailable during this time. |
| 23 October 2025, 14:04: Today's bwSync&Share maintenance postponed | Oct 23, 2025 02:08 PM | #ufrstatus #bwSync&Share The maintenance of bwSync&Share planned for tonight will be postponed by two weeks. |
| 22 October 2025, 11:01 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. CommuniGate follow-up work in connection with the mail migration to MailSPEC | Oct 22, 2025 11:14 AM | #ufrstatus #wartung Starting at approximately 12:00 noon today, improvements will be made to the central mail server CommuniGate as part of the mail migration to MailSPEC. |
| 21 October 2025, 10:50 a.m.: Introduction of two-factor authentication (2FA) with Keycloak on the virtualisation infrastructure | Oct 21, 2025 10:56 AM | #ufrstatus |
| 17 October 2025, 16:33: UniMailbox, OX Webmail conflicts | Oct 17, 2025 04:34 PM | #ufrstatus Recently, some students/enrolled doctoral candidates have been experiencing login problems with their email accounts (UniMailbox) in the web interface (OX App Suite). The cause is already known and a solution is being worked on. IMAP and SMTP are not affected. Emails can still be read and sent using external mail clients.#stoerung |
| 2025-10-15 16:23: bwSync&Share: On 23 October 2025, the bwSync&Share service will be unavailable from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. | Oct 15, 2025 04:24 PM | #ufrstatus #bwSync&Share: Update (Nextcloud) - Service unavailable |
| 15 October 2025, 1:07 p.m.: Status update CommuniGate: Security enhancements | Oct 15, 2025 01:39 PM | #ufrstatus Status of the migration of the central mail server from CommuniGate to MailSpec: As announced, the server was migrated due to insufficient security compliance. As part of this process, webmail access has now been uniformly changed to HTML5 and is now called ‘Pronto’. |
| 13 October 2025, 22:18: Open WebUI maintenance successfully completed | Oct 13, 2025 10:21 PM | #ufrstatus #wartung Open WebUI maintenance has been successfully completed. The service is available again and offers even better performance under high load. |
| 13 October 2025, 7:50 p.m.: Open WebUI maintenance break starting at 8:30 p.m. | Oct 13, 2025 07:52 PM | #ufrstatus #wartung Open WebUI will be unavailable from 8:30 p.m. as we carry out maintenance work to improve performance. The maintenance work is expected to last until approximately 10:00 p.m. |