OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Sept 12 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, 09/12/2019 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 Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the operating system and central server management software.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: SCVMM, Azure Pack Portal
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. College IT and OIT staff will be unable to manage their virtual machines using SCVMM or the Azure Pack Portal during this time.

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Banner Financial Aid upgrades/patches installation
Description of change: OIT will be applying upgrades and patches required for regulatory compliance (FISAP, etc).
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner Financial Aid will be unavailable during the maintenance window
Expected End-user impact: During this time, Banner Financial Aid will be unavailable and users may receive an error message when using the administrative pages (forms)

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Update course flags for high school courses for GPA calculations
Description of change: OIT will apply a script to update the course flags of high school courses using an excel sheet provided by admissions. The course flags affect the grade points of courses and GPA calculations.
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:30 AM
Affected services: EDI process for high school transcripts
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected

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Run SHATAEQ Deletion scripts in Production
Description of change: OIT will run a deletion script in Banner to delete workspace records.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 3:15 AM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected

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Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be restarting an information resource server to resolve some memory problems.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:30 AM
Affected services: Oracle Identity Manager, Single Sign On, any other authentication that rely on OUD
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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