OIT Systems Maintenance, Thursday, March 27 from 2:00am 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, 03/27/2014 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window.  In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When: 4:00am – 7:00am
Affected services: Undergraduate Admissions App
Affected systems: ugapp1 – ugapp5 and appadmin.fau.edu
Description of maintenance: The undergraduate admissions application will be update to correct two bugs. The first corrects failed logic that prevents the application from accurately emailing honors college applicants. The second corrects a bug which results in old pdf files been stored in the database.
User impact: The admissions application will be offline during the update. Users will receive a non-user friendly error message.

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When: 2:00am – 6:00am
Affected services: Banner FAUP
Affected systems: Banner FAUP
Description of maintenance: The following updates will be installed in Banner Production: Financial Aid 8.19.0.3 Patch
User impact: No user impact is expected. Banner will be available during this time.

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When: 4:00am – 7:00am
Affected services: System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
Affected systems: SCCM
Description of maintenance: OIT will upgrade the production instance of System Center Configuration Manager in order to add additional features and support.SCCM production access will be unavailable during the downtime window. In addition, the Windows PE 5.0 boot images will be unavailable during the morning of the 6th while drivers are injected which can take several hours. Please note, that while we will move to the latest PE 5.0 boot images for all task sequences, the old PE 4.0 images will still be available by 7AM and thus existing task sequences will continue to work.
User impact: No end-user impact is expected

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