OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Aug 8 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, 08/06/2020 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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Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be moving a virtual server to new hardware.
Downtime window start: 8/6/2020 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 8/6/2020 6:00 AM
Affected services: Jira and Confluence (jira.fau.edu and kb.fau.edu)
Expected End-user impact: During this time, services listed will be unavailable. Users may also lose their work if it was entered after the clone was created.

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Restrict SharePoint/OneDrive shareable links expiration
Description of change: OIT will be restricting SharePoint/OneDrive shareable links to a 30 day validity ​
Downtime window start: 8/6/2020 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 8/6/2020 3:05 AM
Affected services: SharePoint, Onedrive​
Expected End-user impact: During this time, there is no end-user impact. After the change, users will only be allowed to make a shareable link for OneDrive/SharePoint with a validity of up to 30 days

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Enable endpoint encryption on OIT managed devices
Description of change: OIT will be enabling Bitlocker on OIT managed clients​
Downtime window start: 8/6/2020 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 8/6/2020 3:05 AM
Affected services: Client devices
Expected End-user impact: During this time, ​no end-user impact is expected.

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Software Update (OnBase)
Description of change: OIT is updating the program used for accessing the Onbase Document Management System​
Downtime window start: 8/6/2020 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 8/6/2020 7:00 AM
Affected services: OnBase Document Management System​
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected​

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