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, 10/25/2018 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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Email Infrastructure Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be adding additional capacity to its email infrastructure.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: Inbound Email
Affected systems: Email servers
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Server Upgrade and Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the components of several systems to resolve bugs and add support for newer hardware.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: All services
Affected systems: All systems
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Identity Management
Description of change: Upgrades and patches which may require restart.
Downtime window start: 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Identity Management
Affected systems: Identity Management
Expected End-user impact: During this time, these changes only affect backend services and should not impact users.
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Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be installing a critical patch needed by Financial Aid during the FAUP maintenance window. This patch is needed to resolve critical defects in Financial aid processing.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner 8 and Banner Admin Pages
Affected systems: Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users may not be able to connect to Banner during the installation.
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