McGraw Hill – Canvas Integration Issue

McGraw Hill is currently experiencing an issue with their Canvas integration.  Please visit their status page for more information

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Posted in Educational Technologies

OIT System Maintenance – Thurs. Oct 19 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, 10/19/2017 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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Server Maintenance – Virtualapps system maintenance 
Description of change:  A security update is being applied to the system
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services:  virtualapps.fau.edu
Affected systems: netscaler gateway for virtualapps
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users will be unable to use any virtual apps that are being served out by the virtualapps.fau.edu site.

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Server Maintenance – Windows configuration and deployment system upgrade 
Description of change: The system providing configuration, deployment and updates to Windows clients will be upgraded to a newer OS version​
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: OS deployments, app installs, windows updates from SCCM
Affected systems: boc22sccm
Expected End-user impact: During this time, all OS deployments, app installs, windows updates from SCCM will be unavailable

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Application Maintenance – Workday Location Improvements 
Description of change:  We are deploying changes that will improve accuracy to our Workday Locations information provided by our Campus Operations and Building management team.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Workday, AssetWorks,
Affected systems: boc22devproc, Workday
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end user impact is expected

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Server Maintenance – Banner Upgrades/Patches
Description of change: OIT will be installing several Banner upgrades and patch releases on Thursday, October 19, 2017.
The Financial Aid office has requested the installation of the Financial Aid administrative version 9.3.4 administrative pages as a means to bring production up-to-date for distribution of funds. These releases serve as pre-requisites and co-requisites for the requested administrative pages.
Pre-Requisite releases: General 8.9.2 upgrade and 8.9.2.1 patch, Admin Common version9.3.7 administrative pages, General version 9.3.5 administrative pages, Financial Aid version 9.3.4 administrative pages
Co-Requisite releases: Student 8.13.2 upgrade, Student 9.3.6 administrative pages, Accounts Receivable 8.5.3 upgrade, Accounts Receivable 9.3.4 administrative pages
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: All Banner Services
Affected systems: Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users may not be able to connect to Banner.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems, Workday