Sonic Foundry will be performing network maintenance on the Mediasite Cloud infrastructure during their scheduled maintenance window on April 27th between 1:01AM EDT and 5:00AM EDT. Access to Mediasite may be unavailable for brief periods during this time.
Mediasite Cloud infrastructure maintenance
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. 4/18 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, 04/18/2019 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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Oracle Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying the latest Oracle quarterly patch updates to the production databases.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner production, Oracle Identity Manager production, Appworx production, IEA warehouse
Affected systems: Banner, Oracle databases
Expected End-user impact: During this time, services that listed above will be unavailable at times during the maintenance window.
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Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing server maintenance.
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Internal DNS at all campuses
Affected systems: DNS
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end user impact is expected
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HPC DNS Server Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be replacing the HPC.fau.edu DNS infrastructure
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: hpc.fau.edu only
Affected systems: hpc servers including koko, kokosec
Expected End-user impact: During this time, DNS settings may change for a short time while we perform the forced update to sync time to live.
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Microsoft SQL Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be Installing Windows Management Framework 5.1, Powershell 5, and .NET 4.7.1 on nodes associated with the boc22mssqloit SQL cluster
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Any services using boc22mssqloit as a data source.
Affected systems: MS SQL server
Expected End-user impact: During this time, services using this data source may go offline during restarts.
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Account Self Service Portal Emergency maintenance
An emergency maintenance is being performed to correct an issue related to Account Self Service and password resets.
During this time you may see a delay in password resets. If you see any errors please retry at a later time. If you continue to have issues please contact the Help Desk for further assistance (561) 297-3999
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
OIT
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Mediasite Cloud infrastructure maintenance
Sonic Foundry will be performing network maintenance on the Mediasite Cloud infrastructure during their scheduled maintenance window on April 20th between 1:01AM EDT and 5:00AM EDT. Access to Mediasite may be unavailable for brief periods during this time.
Posted in Lecture Capture
Banner Administrative forms are experiencing issues.
Banner Administrative Forms are experiencing issues at this time. We are currently investigating this issue and will update this issue as we know more.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Office of Information Technology
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thur. April 11 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, 04/11/2019 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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SSO Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will upgrade the prompting system in the Single Sign On System so users of slower services do not see the continue button if they do not have any tasks to complete. OIT is also introducing prompts for student 2Factor enrollment.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: All Systems that user SSO including Canvas, Workday, and others.
Affected systems: Shibboleth servers
Expected End-user impact: During this time, single sign on may stop working for 10 – 15 minutes while we redeploy the prompting service.
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MyFAU MyInfo Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will update the Znumber channel in MyFAU to provide more detailed information about the student to decrease help desk calls.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 4:00 AM
Affected services: MyFAU
Affected systems: Production Payara SSO Auth servers
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the channel will go offline for 60 seconds.
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Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the BANNER system with a Financial Aid upgrade and a Financial Aid Self Service patch during the maintenance window.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: No service impact expected
Affected systems: Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end user impact expected
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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. April 4 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, 04/04/2019 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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UAchieves Maintenance
Description of change: OIT is applying changes to UAchieves to resolve a production issue where it shows certain students have been exempt from the Civics Literacy Test when they actually have not. This will involve restarting UAchieves.
Downtime window start: 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: UAchieves – Audit functionality
Affected systems: UAchieves
Expected End-user impact: During this time, user may not be able to run Audits during restart.
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Mail Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be making a change in how email gets routed to faculty/staff.
Downtime window start 4/4/2019 5:00 AM
Downtime window end 4/4/2019 5:00 AM
OIT Units involved in the change OIT Systems
Affected services: Faculty/Staff email (Office 365)
Affected systems: bertx.fau.edu, berty.fau.edu, boc22esa01.fau.edu, nwesa01.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Server upgrade
Description of change: OIT is upgrading production SCCM and the Windows ADK to the most current versions.
Downtime window start: 2:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: All SCCM related services including OS and Application deployment, patch management, system management, SCCM reporting.
Affected systems: SCCM server
Expected End-user impact: During this time, access to SCCM and all SCCM-related services will be unavailable while the upgrade is performed.
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Redeploy Banner Application Navigator
Description of change: OIT will redeploy the Application Navigator with alterations to the exclusions list for forms. This is to remove the SW* forms from the search.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Banner Application Navigator
Affected systems: boc22banxe03
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the Application Navigator will be unavailable
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