We will be performing maintenance on how Office 365 signs email for users with “@fau.edu” addresses. This will be a transparent change, no end user interaction is required.
Maintenance is completed. If you have any issues with sending email through Office 365 please open a ticket with the Help Desk with all relevant details.
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, 2/8/2017 from 3:00 AM to 9:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
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Patch Tomcat FAU Apps
Description of change: Applying latest patches for Apache Tomcat servers
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: FAU Fin Aid Quiz, Account Self Service, ACH Payments
Affected systems: tuna1p.fau.edu, tuna2p.fau.edu, boc22oimwebp1.fau.edu, boc22oimwebp2.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: Users may lose access to websites running services.
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Security Enhancements for public facing web sites
Description of change: We are changing the cryptographic protocols that are allowed for the Banner production web sites that are public facing. Beginning on the 8th only TLS 1.2 will be allowed to those sites.
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: All public Banner web sites (SSB, Ban XE, INB)
Affected systems:
BigIP
FAUP_boc22banxe_vs 131.91.101.187
PROD_banner_4444_vs 131.91.102.28
PROD_banner_8067_vs 131.91.102.28
PROD_banner_8862_vs 131.91.102.28
PROD_banner_9090_vs 131.91.102.28
PROD_banner_9292_vs 131.91.102.28
PROD_banner_9985_vs 131.91.102.28
PROD_banner_9990_vs 131.91.102.28
PROD_banner_https_vs 131.91.102.28
PROD_bannersso_443_vs 131.91.101.110
Expected End-user impact: Clients will need to be running an OS/Browser that supports TLS 1.2 to connect to the services hosted on these systems.
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Email Auditing Change
Description of change: We will be enabling mailbox auditing for office 365 mailboxes.
Downtime window start: 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 9:00 AM
Affected services: Office 365/ Exchange Online
Affected systems: Office 365/ Exchange Online
Expected End-user impact: This will only be done to OIT users in Office 365 (members of FAU-GRP-V-OIT in active directory).
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Email Security Change
Description of change: We will be changing the way DKIM signs messages for fau.edu email addresses.
Downtime window start: 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 9:00 AM
Affected services: Office 365/ Exchange Online
Affected systems: Office 365/ Exchange Online
Expected End-user impact: none