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, 02/06/2020 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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Account self-service maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be adding additional menus to account claiming pages for transcript requests.
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: accounts.fau.edu – account claiming
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users may not be able to claim or manage their accounts through this service while it is restarted.
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Canvas LTI Updates
Description of change: Canvas is making a change to their code on 2/15. We will be updating the following applications in advance of that change to make sure that the change is seamless for our applications.
The following applications will be updated: Observer Manager, Course Manager, User Manager, Discussion Report, Syllabus Viewer, Grade Uploader, Civic Literacy Enrollment, Forgot Password (Continuing Ed)
Downtime window start: 5:30 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Canvas Courses Manager, User Manager, Discussion Report, Grade Uploader, Observer Manager, Syllabus Viewer, Civic Literacy Enrollment, Forgot Password (Continuing Ed)
Expected End-user impact: During this time, each application will be momentarily unavailable when the update occurs and after for about 10-15 minutes when the servers are rebooted
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Removing unused and disabled services from Single Sign On
Description of change: OIT will be removing obsolete and disabled services from our Single Sign On system’s allowed services list.
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Services Already Disabled
Expected End-user impact: During this time, there should be no impact as these are either already disabled or unreachable.
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Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the components of several systems to resolve bugs and add support for newer hardware.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Server upgrades at our disaster recovery site (NWRD): ADFS, OUD, SSO, Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected
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