OIT Systems Maintenance – Thurs. January 6 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, 01/06/2022 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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Windows configuration and deployment system upgrade
Description of change: ​​​The system providing configuration, deployment and updates to Windows clients (SCCM) will be upgraded to the latest version
Downtime window start 1/6/2022 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 1/6/2022 6:00 AM
Affected services: ​​​The system providing configuration, deployment and updates to Windows clients will be upgraded to the latest version
Expected End-user impact: ​​All OS deployments, app installs, windows updates from SCCM will be unavailable during the window

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Single Sign-on Maintenance
Description of change: ​We will be performing SSO maintenance to allow Azure AD/ADFS to recognize whether a user has gone through MFA during sign-on or not.
Downtime window start 1/6/2022 6:00 AM
Downtime window end 1/6/2022 7:00 AM
Affected services: Azure AD, ADFS, Shibboleth
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact expected​

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Directory system decommission
Description of change: ​OIT will be removing a legacy domain
Downtime window start 1/6/2022 6:00 AM
Downtime window end 1/6/2022 6:30 AM
Affected services: IRM domain
Expected End-user impact: No end user impact is expected​.

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Email Configuration Change
Description of change: ​OIT will be making a change to how exchange clients connect to their mailbox.
Downtime window start 1/6/2022 8:00 AM
Downtime window end 1/6/2022 8:00 AM
Affected services: ​Exchange email and clients
Expected End-user impact: No end user impact is expected​.

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