OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Oct 3, from 3:00AM to 7:00AM

Office of Information Technology will be performing routine systems maintenance which includes but is not limited to rebooting Windows servers as deemed necessary, installing critical patches and other health checks on Thursday, 10/03/2013 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window.  In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

www.fau.edu, Banner, SharePoint, Graduate application, fsaAtlas, SCAC, vCenter, Xitracs, PrivateEye, SCOM,  and SCVMM

 

When: 12:01AM
Affected Services: None
Affected Systems:  Systems which have SCCM client in OIT
Description of maintenance: OIT will be enforcing SCUP updates for Adobe Reader 10 / 11, Adobe Professional 10 / 11, and Adobe Flash (ActiveX & Plugin) to systems located in the Office of Information Technology.  The updates will be requested by SCCM and installed through Microsoft Update.  These updates will not upgrade the version of the software that is installed, yet rather update for security and functionality patches.
User Impact:  No end-user impact is expected.

When: 5:00 – 6:00AM
Affected services: www.fau.edu
Affected systems: webnet4-7
Description of maintenance:  We are preparing the www.fau.edu systems to introduce new features for FAU webpages.
User impact: No expected end user impact.

When: 3:00am – 7:00am
Affected services: Banner
Affected systems: Banner FAUP
Description of maintenance: The following updates will be installed in Banner production: Financial Aid 8.18.1.1, 8.18.1.2 patch, Mass Data Update Utility 8.1.0 upgrade, Position Control 8.9.0 upgrade, HR/Payroll 8.9.0 upgrade, HR/Payroll 8.9.0.2, 8.9.0.3 patch
User impact: No expected end user impact.

When: 3:00-6:00AM
Affected services: SharePoint, Graduate application, fsaAtlas, SCAC, vCenter, Xitracs, PrivateEye, SCOM, SCVMM
Affected systems: mssql1, mssql2
Description of maintenance: The storage for several Microsoft SQL servers will be migrated to the NetApp. The following services will be interrupted for a short period of time during the window: SharePoint, Graduate application, fsaAtlas, SCAC, vCenter, Xitracs, PrivateEye
User impact: The services listed above will be unavailable for approximately 60 minutes during the maintenance window.

When: 3:00-6:00AM
Affected services: Exchange
Affected systems: Exchange
Description of maintenance: OIT will be configuring our mail servers to support coexistence with Microsoft hosted Exchange on Office 365.
User impact: There is no end-user impact expected

 

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