OIT Systems Maintenance, Wed, Feb. 14 and Thurs. Feb 15 from 12:01AM 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 Wednesday, Feb. 14 and Thursday, Feb. 15 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:


Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on Banner from 12:01 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on February 14th. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install the updates.
Downtime window start: 02/14/2024 12:01 AM
Downtime window end: 02/14/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner Admin, Self-service
End-user impact: Banner will be unavailable during this time.


Update EDR Scan Settings
Description of change: OIT will be making adjustments to the EDR scan settings to improve performance for some users on Wednesday February 14th. End user impact is not expected.
Downtime window start: 02/14/2024 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/14/2024 9:00 AM
Affected services: No services will be impacted by this change
End-user impact: No end user impact is expected. This change will disable automated full scans of Microsoft Defender which should improve performance on machines that are often shut down overnight such as laptops.


Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on Banner from 12 midnight. until 7:00 a.m. on February 15th. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install the updates.
Downtime window start: 02/15/2024 12:01 AM
Downtime window end: 02/15/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner Admin, Self-service
End-user impact: Banner will be unavailable during this time. All end users of Banner will be impacted.


Server migration OwlAdminPages, OwlKPIs, ProgramsAdmin
Description of change: The following services will be migrated to a new host OwlAdminPages, OwlKPIs, ProgramsAdmin
Downtime window start: 02/15/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/15/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: OwlAdminPages, OwlKPIs, ProgramsAdmin
End-user impact: Faculty, Staff, Students


Adding Compliance Text Verbiage in UG App, Personal Info and Owldone
Description of change: OIT is adding a text to Personal Info, Owldone and UG App to collect consent from the students to communicate via SMS.
Downtime window start: 02/15/2024 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/15/2024 5:00 PM
Affected services: Personal Info, Owldone, UG App
End-user impact: Students


Displaying All Awarded Data on eTranscript
Description of change: OIT is updating the eTranscript template to view awarded data such as 2nd major.
Downtime window start: 02/15/2024 9:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/15/2024 10:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: Students


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