OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Sept. 15 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, 09/15/2016 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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Move student home folder path (M: drive) and change network share drive mapping method
When:  3:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services:   home folders for students (M: drive)​ and drive mappings for all users
Affected systems:  fauandi1, idm, bocdcirm01
Description of maintenance:  OIT will be changing the location of the student home folder (M: drive). The path will change from \\fauandi1.fau.edu\student$\faunetid to \\fauandi1.fau.edu\home$\faunetid​.
Additionally all network shares will be mapped via Group Policy Preferences for all users instead of logon script + AD homedirectory attribute

User impact:  If mapping a student’s home folder manually the path will now be \\fauandi1.fau.edu\home$\faunetid
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Oracle storage migrations
When: 3:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services:  ​Report Caster, WebFOCUS, Talon, IDM, OIM, Luminis
Affected systems:  ​boc22ora01,​boc22ora03,​boc22ora05,​boc22ora07,mcoracle
Description of maintenance:  Migrate Oracle datafiles to new NetApp storage​
User impact: Services will be unavailable for a short period while storage is cut over.​

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