OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. March 9 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 Thursday, 03/09/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Server software upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading software on a secure file server
Downtime window start: 03/09/2023 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 03/09/2023 3:30 AM
Affected services: All ANDISEC shares
End-user impact: ANDISEC shares will be unavailable for a short period of time during the window.

Adding two new load balancers to BigIP cluster
Description of change: OIT will be adding two BigIP load balancers to prepare for future changes.
Downtime window start: 03/09/2023 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 03/09/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: All services served by virtual servers hosted by the BigIP load balancers. These include but may not be limited to: owlapp, sso, papercut, sas, myfau, banner, talisma, oud, www, filelocker, ds/ldap, dmz entry point for various coldfusion/grails/tomcat applications, tms, sctforms, etc.
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this time.

Raiser’s Edge Integration with Workday
Description of change: The purpose of this change is to automatically import data from Raiser’s Edge (FAU’s fundraising and donor management software) into Workday.
Downtime window start: 03/09/2023 10:00 AM
Downtime window end: 03/09/2023 11:00 AM
Affected services: Workday and Raiser’s Edge
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.

REDCap Update
Description of change: OIT will perform a routine REDCap update.
Downtime window start: 03/09/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 03/09/2023 1:00 AM
Affected services: REDCap
End-user impact: Service will be offline during update.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems, Workday

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. March 2 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 Thursday, 03/02/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing server maintenance on several core systems.
Downtime window start: 03/02/2023 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 03/02/2023 8:00 AM
Affected services: MyOwl Services, Owl KPIs, and Owl Files
End-user impact: The undergraduate application, MyOwl Services, Owl KPIs, and Owl Files will be unavailable during the maintenance.

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing server maintenance on uAchieve from 4:00a.m. until 6:00 a.m. on March 2nd, 2023. During this time, uAchieve will be unavailable.
Downtime window start: 03/02/2023 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 03/02/2023 6:00 AM
Affected services: uAchieve
End-user impact: uAchieve will be unavailable during the maintenance.

Single Sign-On (SSO) Update
Description of change: OIT will apply some visual updates to the single-sign on page
Downtime window start: 03/02/2023 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 03/02/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: Impacts all SSO enabled services
End-user impact: No end user impact is expected

Migrate links.fau.edu to new infrastructure
Description of change: The links.fau.edu web service will be migrated to new infrastructure both on the Boca campus and in the cloud.
Downtime window start: 03/02/2023 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 03/02/2023 6:30 AM
Affected services: links.fau.edu
End-user impact: No end user impact is expected

Posted in Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 23 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 Thursday, 02/23/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Single-Sign On Prompting Engine Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the Single Sign On Prompting Engine to improve reliability, performance, and usability.
Downtime window start: 02/23/2023 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/23/2023 6:00 AM
Affected services: Single Sign On and any applications using SSO.
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during the change. The SSO page will have a new look after the change.

REDCap Update
Description of change: This is a routine REDCap update. Will be offline during update.
Downtime window start: 02/23/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/23/2023 1:00 AM
Affected services: REDCap
End-user impact: Service will be offline during update.

Desktop Updates for Admissions Office Computer Systems
Description of change: OIT will be making adjustments to Admissions desktops and laptops on February 23rd 2023. OIT will work with Admissions to communicate the changes and what can be expected.
Downtime window start: 02/23/2023 1:00 PM
Downtime window end: 02/23/2023 1:05 PM
Affected services: Undergraduate Admission user desktops and laptops
End-user impact: This change only impacts Undergraduate Admissions staff. After the change, Undergraduate Admissions staff will be prompted to authenticate with DUO when logging in to their desktops and laptops.

Posted in Research Computing, Systems, Uncategorized

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 16 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 Thursday, 02/16/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Prompting Engine Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the Single Sign On Prompting Engine to improve reliability, performance, and usability.
Downtime window start: 02/16/2023 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/16/2023 6:00 AM
Affected services: Single Sign On and any services that use SSO.
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during the change. The SSO page will have a new look after the change.

Posted in Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 2 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 Thursday, 02/02/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be updating servers supporting banner and data warehouse
Downtime window start: 02/02/2023 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/02/2023 5:00 AM
Affected services: Banner and ODS
End-user impact: Banner and ODS will be unavailable during the window

Graduate Application Upgrade
Description of change: The Graduate College Admissions Application will be updated to enable new features affecting the College of Business and other corporate program admissions applications.
Downtime window start: 02/02/2023 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/02/2023 8:00 AM
Affected services: cobapp.fau.du, Kubernetes
End-user impact: Applicants and Employees (College of Business, and Graduate College)

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Jan 26

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, 01/26/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Update SSO Login Screen Header
Description of change: OIT will update the FAU SSO login screen. Change is only visual, does not affect functionality.
Downtime window start: 01/26/2023 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 01/26/2023 7:15 AM
Affected services: Single-Sign On (SSO)
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.

Banner maintenance
Description of change: OIT will run scripts to update Hold Dates in Banner
Downtime window start: 01/26/2023 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 01/26/2023 4:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

Server maintenance
Description of change: Research Computing will be adding a Domain controller to the health domain
Downtime window start: 01/27/2023 9:00 PM
Downtime window end: 01/27/2023 11:00 PM
Affected services: Health domain
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Research Computing, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs, Jan 5 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 Thursday, 01/05/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Student Email Migration Opt-in Prompt
Description of change: OIT will be implementing a new single sign-on prompt offering students the opportunity to migrate to Office 365 Outlook email from Google Workspace Gmail.
Downtime window start: 01/05/2023 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 01/05/2023 4:00 AM
Affected services: Single Sign On
End-user impact: Students who are not on Outlook 365 will be prompted to opt-in to migrate to Outlook 365. They also have the option to opt-out and wait until the bulk migration at the end of spring semester.

Posted in Systems, Uncategorized

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Dec 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 Thursday, 12/15/2022 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be updating a server that supports Banner Test
Downtime window start: 12/15/2022 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12/15/2022 4:00 AM
Affected services: banner dev
End-user impact: Banner dev will be unavailable during the window

BHRIC file server maintenance
Description of change: Research Computing will be performing maintenance on BHRIC file server. During this time, no files will be accessible.
Downtime window start: 12/15/2022 12:05 AM
Downtime window end: 12/15/2022 4:30 AM
Affected services: BHRIC
End-user impact: During this time, data located BHRIC file server will be unavailable.
This will cause errors during user login (vmware users that save thier profile here) and will casue drives to not be mounted if on physical machines and vmware users.

REDCap Update
Description of change: This is a routine REDCap update. REDCap will be offline during update.
Downtime window start: 12/15/2022 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/15/2022 1:00 AM
Affected services: REDCap
End-user impact: Service will be offline during update.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Research Computing, Systems, Uncategorized

OIT Systems Maintenance, 11/16 to 11/18 between 12:01AM and 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, 11/17/2022 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted on Wednesday, 11/16 and Friday, 11/18:

Service Migration
Description of change: OIT is changing the service provider for mymail webpage
Downtime window start: 11/16/2022 12:01 AM
Downtime window end: 11/16/2022 1:00 AM
Impacted services: Google mail URL
End-user impact: After the change, mymail URL will be redirected to MyFAU login page.

uAchieve Term Updates
Description of change: The uAchieve web app will be updated to include Spring 2023, Summer 2023, and Fall 2023 for Audit Requests.
Downtime window start: 11/17/2022 12:01 AM
Downtime window end: 11/17/2022 12:30 AM
Impacted services: uAchieve/DARS
End-user impact: uAchieve will not be available during the update.

EDI changes for Student Written Communication Digital Badges
Description of change: Changes have been made to both inbound and outbound EDI process for post-secondary transcripts to comply with the new state laws. Digital badges values will be loaded to Banner from inbound transcripts, and FAU issued digital badges will be sent out on outbound EDI transcripts.
Downtime window start: 11/17/2022 12:01 AM
Downtime window end: 11/17/2022 6:00 AM
Impacted services: Banner EDI jobs
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this change.

Server Maintenance
Description of change: ​OIT will be upgrading the components of several systems to resolve bugs and add support for newer hardware.​
Downtime window start: 11/17/2022 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/17/2022 7:00 AM
Impacted services: Services running on Cisco UCS server
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

SUSE Rancher Maintenance
Description of change: Maintenance will be performed on OIT’s boc22rancher Kubernetes Management service.
Downtime window start: 11/17/2022 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/17/2022 6:00 AM
Impacted services: Rancher Environment
End-user impact: As we have an issue with this kubernetes cluster this change could affect load balancing and certs for network registration, privateeye, and college of business application.

Google Workspace Quotas
Description of change: All users will have enforced quotas 5GB added to their Google Workspace Accounts. Users will continue to be able to send and receive email but all other Google Workspace functions will be read-only.
Downtime window start: 11/18/2022 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/18/2022 4:00 AM
Impacted services: Google Workspace
End-user impact: All users will have enforced quotas 5GB added to their Google Workspace Accounts. If quota is over 5BG, users will continue to be able to send and receive email but all other Google Workspace functions will be read-only.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Email, Research Computing, Systems, Uncategorized

[RESOLVED] Outlook Web Access Error

**UPDATE**

The Outlook Web Access error has been resolved.

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We are experiencing an issue with Outlook Web Access. Our team is investigating and hope to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

We will update this post when more details become available.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

OIT

Posted in Email, Systems