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, 10/03/2019 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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Banner data change
Description of change: OIT will move all applicants, admitted students, and student records to College Of Science’s Exercise Science program from the College of Education.
Downtime window start: 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12:30 AM
Affected services: Banner curriculum data of students in Exercise Science major.
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 applying patches to several hosts.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Cisco Video Conferencing
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the services listed above will be unavailable.
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Account Self Service (accounts.fau.edu)
Description of change: OIT will be making configuration changes and restarts affecting Accounts Self-Service
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Account Self Service (accounts.fau.edu)
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 making some changes to the frevvo forms and the accounts self service web sites to improve their resiliency
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:30 AM
Affected services: frevvo forms sites, FAU account self services site
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Account Self Service Updates
Description of change: OIT will be installing patches and updates to back-end services.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Accounts Self Service – https://accounts.fau.edu, User Manager (UM)
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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FAU Alerts @fau.edu to @my.fau.edu
Description of change: OIT will be fixing a broken integration which renamed @fau.edu email address to @my.fau.edu to improve delivery time of FAU alert notifications. The new version of this integration runs in SnapLogic and connects to a more up to date directory server.
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:30 AM
Affected services: FAU Alerts
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Spam Filter Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be making a change to its spam filtering appliances.
Downtime window start: 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 8:00 AM
Affected services: Inbound FAU email
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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