OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. May 16 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, 05/16/2019 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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File Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be enabling in transit encryption for a file share.
Downtime window start: 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: Controller’s ANDISEC share
Affected systems: ANDISEC
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. After the change, only systems with Windows 8 or higher will be able to connect to the share.

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Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading and patching the BANNER system with 11 different releases.
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 is expected.

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Authentication service migration
Description of change: OIT will be migrating some systems responsible for authentication to a newer version
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: SSO and ADFS
Affected systems: SSO and ADFS
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected

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Mail Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be making a change to how emails are routed.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Email
Affected systems: Email servers
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Oracle Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying the Oracle Upgrade 12cR2 to ODSP production database
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: ODSP production environment. Webfocus won’t be able to connect to the ODSP database.
Affected systems: odsprod
Expected End-user impact: During this time, services listed above will be unavailable at times.

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Oracle Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying the Oracle Upgrade 12cR2 to RCASP Webfocus production database.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: WebFocus production environment. Webfocus will be temporarily unavailable at times during the maintenance window.
Affected systems: WebFocus database
Expected End-user impact: During this time, services listed above will be unavailable at times.

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