OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. January 29 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, 01/29/2015 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window.  In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

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Title: Remove WINS forward lookup from Active Directory DNS
When: 3:00AM – 3:15AM
Affected services: WINS
Affected systems: bocdcfau01, bocdcfau02, jupdcfau01, davdcfau01, towdcfau01, nwrdcfau01
Description of maintenance: OIT is taking the first step to remove old name resolution services from the network.
User impact: We do not expect any end user impact

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Title: NWRDC DBC2 firmware upgrade
When: 3:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: All services will remain up during this process
Affected systems: nwrdcesxi31 to 35
Description of maintenance: OIT will be upgrading the firmware on some blades at our disaster recovery (DR) site. As a result, several services running on the DR servers will be unavailable for approximately 4 hours.
User impact: We do not expect any end user impact

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Title: Remove Domain Controllers from HBOI
When: 3:00AM – 5:30AM
Affected services: Active Directory
Affected systems: tresdcfau01, tresdcirm01
Description of maintenance: OIT will be decommissioning old authentication systems which are no longer needed.​
User impact: No end-user impact is expected. These systems were originally located at PSL campus and later moved to HBOI. They are no longer needed at HBOI and will therefore be removed.

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Title: Security Update CAS 3.5.3 Upgrade
When: 4:00AM – 5:00AM
Affected services: Single Sign On and all systems that user it. Blackboard, InCommon, Google Applications, Self Service
Affected systems: cas1.fau.edu, cas2.fau.edu
Description of maintenance: Upgrade CAS from 3.5.2 to CAS 3.5.3 to correct a possible security vulnerability.
User impact: Single Sign-on will be unavailable for 5 – 10 minutes while we restart the service.

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Title: Blackboard Maintenance
When: 5:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: Blackboard
Affected systems: Blackboard
Description of maintenance: The DBAs will be running a script provided by Blackboard to resolve a bug affecting certain courses experiencing issues with Group Journals
User impact: We don’t anticipate any user impact, unless backout is needed

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Title: Undergraduate Admissions Application Server Restarts
When: 5:00AM – 5:30AM
Affected services: Undergraduate Admissions Application
Affected systems: boc22ug00.fau.edu, boc22ug01.fau.edu, boc22ug02.fau.edu, boc22ug03.fau.edu, boc22ug04.fau.edu, boc22ug05.fau.edu, boc22ugadmin.fau.edu
Description of maintenance:  OIT will restart the server for apply.fau.edu (Undergraduate Admissions Application version 2) to allow Honors Program information to be parsed into Banner.
User impact: We do not anticipate any end user impact

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