OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Nov 21 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, 11/21/2019 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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Financial Aid MiniTerm implementation
Description of change: OIT will be making modifications to the following items which are required for MiniTerm implementation:
1. Created the function for use in FAU Financial Aid to calculate a given student’s Aid Period.
2. Modified short term advance approval process for mini terms.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: ​Not Applicable
Expected End-user impact: During this time, ​no end-user impact is expected.

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Fix a production issue with multiple active @health.fau.edu email addresses.
Description of change: OIT will be fixing the AMCAS loading process to resolve an issue with ​multiple active @health.fau.edu email addresses.Type of
Downtime window start 11/21/2019 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 11/21/2019 5:00 AM
Affected services: ​The AMCAS loading process
Expected End-user impact: During this time, ​no end-user impact is expected.

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BANNER 8X/XE pre-requisite General and Student upgrades/patches/administrative pages installation
Description of change: OIT will be promoting and installing the necessary releases which are pre-requisite to the Financial Aid and Accounts Receivable modules of the BANNER 8X/XE systems which have been requested for compliance.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: ​​BANNER 8X/XE systems
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the Banner system will be unavailable while the new code is installed.

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Financial Aid
Description of change: OIT will apply a new function to calculate Bright Futures award amount,. This will be used to:
Verify that a student’s Bright Futures award amount is correct before disbursing the aid and estimate bright futures amounts on newly admitted (eligible) students
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: ​Banner Financial Aid
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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