OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. July 28 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, 07/28/2016 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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Single Sign On Upgrade
When: 3:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: All login systems that utilize SSO.fau.edu including Blackboard, Workday, Office 365, Outlook 365, Owl Apps (Google Applications), and many others. ​
Affected systems: shibboleth1, shibboleth2, cas1, cas2, BigIP
Description of maintenance: The University Single Sign On infrastructure will be upgraded to the latest version and introduce a new login page.
User impact: Single Sign On will be intermittently available during the upgrade. ​

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Enable OIM Attended Attribute
When: 5:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: ​OIM, OUD
Affected systems: boc22oimp01.fau.edu, boc22oimp02.fau.edu
Description of maintenance: This feature ensures account policies continue to exist for student accounts accessing gmail services when they are no longer enrolled in courses.
User impact: None, this feature is being turned on in preparation of migrating away from Waveset.

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Oracle quarterly DB patches (bbloracle)
When: 3:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: ​Blackboard Production
Affected systems: bbloracle
Description of maintenance: Applying Oracle PSU to DB’s on host bbloracle.
User impact: Blackboard will become temporarily unavailable during the maintenance window.​

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Oracle quarterly DB patches (bannerprd and odsprod)
When: 3:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: ​Banner and ODS production along with services that are tied to the these systems such as jobsub, appworx, dars, and cleanaddress
Affected systems: bannerprd, odsprod, sctcache1-7, sctforms-2​
Description of maintenance: Applying Oracle PSU to DB’s on hosts bannerprd and odsprod.
User impact: Users will be unable to login to Banner or ODS during the period the database is offline. This should be no longer than 1 hour.

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Oracle quarterly DB patches (boc22ora07)
When: 3:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: Oracle Identity Manager production​
Affected systems: ​boc22ora07, boc22oimp1, boc22oimp2
Description of maintenance: ​​Applying Oracle PSU to DB’s on host boc22ora07
User impact: The OIM system will be unavailable for a short period. During this time, account changes will not be processed and the self-service interface will be unavailable.​

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Financial Aid 8.26.1 upgrade/patches
When: 3:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: ​Not Applicable
Affected systems: ​Banner Financial Aid
Description of maintenance: The Financial Aid office has requested that the following packages associated with the Financial Aid 8.26.1 upgrade/patches be installed in production this Thursday morning during the maintenance cycle.
User impact: No user impact is anticipated

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SSO EV certificate
When: 6:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: sso.fau.edu and all authentication services​
Affected systems: BigIP, Shibboleth1, Shibboleth2, Cas1, Cas2
Description of maintenance: Upgrade SSO.fau.edu’s certificates with EV Green Bar Certificates​
User impact: Users should see a green bar naming FAU in the browsers address bar when users SSO.

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Email disclaimer for @health.fau.edu email users
When: 6:00AM – 6:05AM
Affected services: email for @health.fau.edu users​
Affected systems: Exchange 365​
Description of maintenance: The College of Medicine is mandating that email sent from @health.fau.edu addresses have a disclaimer appended to the message​
User impact: After the change emails sent from @health.fau.edu will contain an appended disclaimer​

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