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, 05/18/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
Disaster Recovery Testing
Description of change: OIT will perform disaster recovery testing on the wired and wireless network in preparation for hurricane season.
Downtime window start: 05/18/2023 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 05/18/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: Wired and Wireless network
End-user impact: All faculty, staff, and students.
RDS Licensing Server upgrade
Description of change: OIT will perform a Windows OS upgrade on our Remote Desktop Licensing Server
Downtime window start: 05/18/2023 12:01 AM
Downtime window end: 05/18/2023 6:00 AM
Affected services: This change will have an impact on any services using the server for remote desktop services, terminal services or VDI.
End-user impact: Faculty and Staff using the remote desktop services, terminal services or VDI.
Banner program change
Description of change: OIT will create a new Banner program to populate Workday payroll accounting adjustment records into Financial Aid College Work Study table
Downtime window start: 05/18/2023 12:01 AM
Downtime window end: 05/18/2023 1:00 AM
Affected services: Banner and Workday
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected
Banner maintenance
Description of change: OIT will update Hold for Degree and Hold for Grades dates in Banner
Downtime window start: 05/18/2023 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 05/18/2023 6:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during the change.
University Form Server Maintenance
Description of change: The University form server will undergo maintenance to improve performance and decrease the effort needed for upgrades.
Downtime window start: 05/18/2023 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 05/18/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: forms.fau.edu, apply.fau.edu, cobapp.fau.edu, nondegree.fau.edu
End-user impact: The services listed above may be unavailable during the maintenance window.
Service Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will upgrade some domain services at HBOI.
Downtime window start: 05/18/2023 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 05/18/2023 4:30 AM
Affected services: Domain authentication on the HBOI campus
End-user impact: All users at the HBOI campus