OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb. 7 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, 02/07/2019 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 – Retirement of old Luminus MyFAU portal
Description of change: OIT will be shutting down services that were responsible for the old Luminis MyFAU portal
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:30 AM
OIT Units involved in the change systems
Affected services: Old MyFAU portal and any web services that relied on it for authentication.
Affected systems: Luminus, mcportals
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. All services relying on the old portal should have been migrated away already as part of other projects and change notices.

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Account Self Service
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading and patching services related to account management related to HIPAA user roles. ​
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Account Self Service
Affected systems: accounts.fau.edu, um.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. These changes should not effect existing systems. Change will occur to back-end services. ​

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Form Server Patch
Description of change: Updating the form server to patch bugs and reported issues.
Downtime window start: 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Frevvo, forms.fau.edu​, Admissions applications
Affected systems: boc22frevvo1 server
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the form server that provides many automated forms will be offline for 10 – 15 minutes. ​
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REDCap survey software upgrade
Description of change: OIT will update upgrade the REDCap survey software.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:30 AM
Affected services: redcap.fau.edu​
Affected systems: redcap.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, REDCap survey software will be offline from 3:00 until 6:00 am

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