[COMPLETED] Campus VPN Maintenance

The campus VPN maintenance is now completed.

Posted in Network and Telecom, Systems, Workday

Campus VPN Maintenance – Today at 5:15 p.m.

OIT will be performing emergency maintenance on the campus VPN at 5:15 p.m. today. While the maintenance is underway, users will experience temporary disconnections and timeouts if they are using the VPN. We will post another announcement upon the conclusion of the maintenance.

Posted in Network and Telecom, Systems, Workday

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. April 22 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, 04/22/2021 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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Student Information System (Banner) Upgrade
Description of change: ​​OIT will be upgrading the Student Information System (Banner) with new releases from Ellucian.
Downtime window start 4/22/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 4/22/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: Student Information System (Banner)
Expected End-user impact: ​The Student Information System (Banner) will be unavailable during the upgrade.

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Student Information System (Banner) Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on the Student Information System (Banner).
Downtime window start 4/22/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 4/22/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: Student Information System (Banner)
​Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems

[RESOLVED] TouchNet Systems Maintenance, Friday, April 23rd from 3:00AM to 7:00AM

The TouchNet payment processing system will be undergoing maintenance -Starting from 3:00am to 7:00am (EST) Friday, April 23rd. This affects student payment services (Bill+Payment), as well as all Marketplace Stores, uPay sites and TouchNet ready partner payment services. We expect all systems to be back online no later than 7:00 am (EST) that morning. When the system is back up and ready to go, we will notify you. You may wish to place warnings on your website, or take your store offline. If this scheduled downtime creates a conflict for your operations, please feel free to contact us at FIS@fau.edu for further discussion. Expected End-user impact: During this time all student payment services (Bill+Payment), as well as all Marketplace Stores, uPay sites and TouchNet ready partner payment services will be unavailable during this maintenance cycle.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Workday

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. April 15 from 12:00AM 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, 04/15/2021 from 12:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

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Student Information System (Banner) Financial Aid Upgrade
Downtime window start 4/15/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end 4/16/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: ​BANNER 8X/XE
Expected End-user impact: The Banner system will be unavailable during the installation of the new codes/patches.

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Email Server Upgrade
Downtime window start 4/15/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 4/15/2021 4:00 AM
Affected services: Inbound FAU email, smtp.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: Email delivery may be delayed for inbound mail. Clients may receive an error when sending mail to smtp.fau.edu during the change window.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Email

Telecommunications maintenance – April 9 – 12

Communication Infrastructure will be performing emergency maintenance to the Telecommunications and Voice servers between 9:00 p.m. on Friday, April 9 and 3:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 10, 2021.  Additional maintenance will take place between 9:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 11 and 1:00 a.m. on Monday, April 12, 2021.

During the maintenance window, there may be a 5 minute disruption to the campus voice, voicemail, and telephone networks.

If you experience any difficulties after the times outlined above, please contact the FAU help desk at https://helpdesk.fau.edu or 561-297-3999 for immediate assistance.

Thank you

Posted in Network and Telecom

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. April 8 from 12:00AM 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, 04/08/2021 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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WebEx and Single Sign-on Maintenance
Downtime window start: 4/8/2021 6:30 AM
Downtime window end: 4/8/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: ​WebEx and Single sign-on (SSO)
Expected End-user impact: ​The SSO services will be restarted one server at a time so users may experience session errors during this time. WebEx sign-on may experience sign-on issue during this time while the certificate is swapped out.

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Student Advising System
Downtime window start: 4/8/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 4/8/2021 12:30 AM
Affected services: ​Student Advising System
Expected End-user impact: ​No user impact is anticipated

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Banner Maintenance
Downtime window start: 4/8/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 4/8/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: StarRez housing system
Expected End-user impact: ​No user impact is anticipated

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BHRIC VDI Maintenance
Downtime window start: 4/8/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 4/8/2021 2:00 AM
Affected services: ​BHRIC VMware VDI, https://vhealth.fau.edu , https://vhealthon.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: User may experience loss of connectivity to the BHRIC VDI.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Educational Technologies, Research Computing, Systems, Video Conferencing