OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Jan. 20 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, 01/20/2022 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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Pay-for-print service upgrade
Description of change: OIT is upgrading the Pay-for-print service to provide security enhancements.
Downtime window start 1/20/2022 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 1/20/2022 6:00 AM
Affected services: Pay-for-print printing service
Expected End-user impact: ​Printing will intermittently unavailable during this window.

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Server Maintenance
Description of change: ​OIT will be performing maintenance on its spam filters. Mail delivery may be impacted during this window.
Downtime window start 1/20/2022 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 1/20/2022 4:00 AM
Affected services: Inbound email for fau.edu and outbound email via smtp.fau.edu
​Expected End-user impact: ​Sending email using smtp.fau.edu during the maintenance window may fail.

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Storage Maintenance
Description of change: ​OIT will be performing maintenance on some backend storage. No end user impact is anticipated.
Downtime window start 1/20/2022 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 1/20/2022 6:00 AM
Affected services: Storage
Expected End-user impact: There should not be an end-user impact.

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