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 from 6/26-6/29 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
BHRIC storage maintenance
Description of change: Research Computing will be performing maintenance on the SAN for BHRIC. During this time there is no expected user impact. However, https://vdi.fau.edu, servers on https://health-vcenter , REDCAP may experience some slowness while the updates are running.
Downtime window start: 06/26/2024 9:00 PM
Downtime window end: 06/27/2024 5:00 AM
Affected services: All services that run in BHRIC. This includes https://vdi.fau.edu, SHS servers, EDU servers, file shares form \health.ad.fau.edu\bhric and boc22-nas2.health.ad.fau.edu
End-user impact: No expected impact from the update. However, there may be some slowness on the BHRIC Servers during this time.
Non-Degree Acceptance Email Update
Description of change: OIT is fixing grammatical errors in the Non-email Acceptance Email.
Downtime window start: 06/27/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/27/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: myFAU
End-user impact: No end user impact is expected. These changes are fixing a grammatical error in an email that gets sent to students.
App status error for foreign High School records
Description of change: An error was reported for a student with foreign high school record. This change is to fix the reported error.
Downtime window start: 06/27/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/27/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: FAU App
End-user impact: Students – Admissions Applications. Services should still be operational
VPN Management Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on the Advanced VPN infrastructure from 12:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Saturday June 29th. During this time, there may be periods of time where newly installed Advanced VPN clients may be unable to obtain configuration. This maintenance should not affect the use of Advanced VPN.
Downtime window start: 06/29/2024 12:00 PM
Downtime window end: 06/29/2024 8:00 PM
Affected services: Advanced VPN configuration and licensing will be unavailable during periods of time
End-user impact: We anticipate minimal end user impact limited to any user that installs the advanced VPN client for the first time. There will be a period of time during the maintenance where new clients will be unable to get a license or a configuration file. Existing clients will work while the server is under maintenance.