OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Sept 1 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, 09/01/2016 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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Perform maintenance on several systems to support storage migration
When: 3:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: Graduate Application, Undergraduate Application, HPC/Systems monitoring, SSO, Filelocker, NetReg
Affected systems: frevvo1, sepiidae, lists, lintalon0, lintalon1, filelocker, talonx2, ​boc22adfs, ls-medmodel, boc22adfsp, boc22mssql21, ls-snap,boc22mssql22, ls-matlab, boc22vcenter1
Description of maintenance: OIT will be shutting-down several systems to convert their harddisks for optimal performance on the new SAN
User impact: The affected services will be unavailable for periods of time during the window

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Upgrade to the deployment and Windows client management server (SCCM)
When: 6:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: All OS/application/windows update deplyoments from boc22sccm
Affected systems: boc22sccm​
Description of maintenance: OIT will be upgrading the System Center Configuration Manager server (boc22sccm) to version 1607 to support the rollout of Windows 10 Anniversary Update​. SCCM clients may update to version 1607 over the next week.
User impact: All OS/application/windows update deplyoments from boc22sccm will be unavailable during the upgrade​

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REDCap Upgrade
When: 5:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: redcap.fau.edu
Affected systems: redcap1, redcap2​, redcapdb
Description of maintenance: Update from REDCAP ​6.15.0 to 6.16.6
User impact: REDCap will be offline during the upgrade ​no other impact is expected.

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Additional LDAP in rotation
When: 5:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: N/A
Affected systems: N/A
Description of maintenance: ​Introducing New LDAP systems using the new version of RedHat (6)
User impact: No end-user impact expected

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