The TouchNet payment processing system will be undergoing maintenance -Starting from 3:00am to 7:00am (EST) Friday, April 23rd. This affects student payment services (Bill+Payment), as well as all Marketplace Stores, uPay sites and TouchNet ready partner payment services. We expect all systems to be back online no later than 7:00 am (EST) that morning. When the system is back up and ready to go, we will notify you. You may wish to place warnings on your website, or take your store offline. If this scheduled downtime creates a conflict for your operations, please feel free to contact us at FIS@fau.edu for further discussion. Expected End-user impact: During this time all student payment services (Bill+Payment), as well as all Marketplace Stores, uPay sites and TouchNet ready partner payment services will be unavailable during this maintenance cycle.
TouchNet Systems Maintenance, Friday, April 23rd from 3:00AM to 7:00AM
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. April 15 from 12:00AM 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, 04/15/2021 from 12:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
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Student Information System (Banner) Financial Aid Upgrade
Downtime window start 4/15/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end 4/16/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: BANNER 8X/XE
Expected End-user impact: The Banner system will be unavailable during the installation of the new codes/patches.
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Email Server Upgrade
Downtime window start 4/15/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 4/15/2021 4:00 AM
Affected services: Inbound FAU email, smtp.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: Email delivery may be delayed for inbound mail. Clients may receive an error when sending mail to smtp.fau.edu during the change window.
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Telecommunications maintenance – April 9 – 12
Communication Infrastructure will be performing emergency maintenance to the Telecommunications and Voice servers between 9:00 p.m. on Friday, April 9 and 3:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 10, 2021. Additional maintenance will take place between 9:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 11 and 1:00 a.m. on Monday, April 12, 2021.
During the maintenance window, there may be a 5 minute disruption to the campus voice, voicemail, and telephone networks.
If you experience any difficulties after the times outlined above, please contact the FAU help desk at https://helpdesk.fau.edu or 561-297-3999 for immediate assistance.
Thank you
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. April 8 from 12:00AM 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, 04/08/2021 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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WebEx and Single Sign-on Maintenance
Downtime window start: 4/8/2021 6:30 AM
Downtime window end: 4/8/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: WebEx and Single sign-on (SSO)
Expected End-user impact: The SSO services will be restarted one server at a time so users may experience session errors during this time. WebEx sign-on may experience sign-on issue during this time while the certificate is swapped out.
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Student Advising System
Downtime window start: 4/8/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 4/8/2021 12:30 AM
Affected services: Student Advising System
Expected End-user impact: No user impact is anticipated
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Banner Maintenance
Downtime window start: 4/8/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 4/8/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: StarRez housing system
Expected End-user impact: No user impact is anticipated
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BHRIC VDI Maintenance
Downtime window start: 4/8/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 4/8/2021 2:00 AM
Affected services: BHRIC VMware VDI, https://vhealth.fau.edu , https://vhealthon.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: User may experience loss of connectivity to the BHRIC VDI.
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[Resolved] Zoom: Live transcription services are unavailable
Zoom has resolved the issue causing users to be unable to use Live Transcription services within Zoom Meetings.
Zoom: Live transcription services are unavailable
Zoom has received reports of users being unable to utilize Live Transcription services within Zoom Meetings. Cloud Recording transcriptions are not impacted. Zoom is currently investigating and will provide updates as they have them.
[Resolved] Zoom – A subset of users are unable to join meetings/webinars
This issue is now resolved.
[Resolved] – Cisco Webex Connection through Canvas is currently unavailable
UPDATE:
Users should now be able to access their Webex sessions from within Canvas
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User are currently experiencing issues connecting to Webex from within in Canvas.
For more updates about Cisco Webex’s Education Connector, click here.
Zoom – A subset of users are unable to join meetings/webinars
Zoom has seen increased error reports while joining meetings/webinars on the US east coast and is investigating
[RESOLVED] Page errors when attempting to access Canvas
UPDATE:
#2 Canvas should now be operational. A fix was applied and is currently being monitored. (10:25 AM est)
#1 Canvas has identified the issue and applying a fix. (9:07 AM est)
When trying to access Canvas, users may get a 504 Gateway Time-Out error.
This has been reported to Canvas and they are currently investigating the issue.
https://status.instructure.com/