The Office of Undergraduate Admissions has request several changes be applied to the undergraduate admissions application at apply.fau.edu.
The admissions application will be offline from 9:00 pm Friday July 17, 2015 – midnight Friday July 17, 2015 during these upgrades.
FAU is implementing additional security measures to better safeguard your information. Beginning this evening, Friday, July 17, off-campus access to Workday will be limited as follows:
The Single Sign On system will be upgrade Friday June 19, 2015 3am to 5am. During this time users may not be able to access services such as Banner Self Service, Network Registration Blackboard, Owl Applications, and the Help Desk.
Users may not be able to login to Outlook.fau.edu, Cobweb2.fau.edu, iOS, Android, Lync/Skype for Business and other Microsoft hosted services. We are investigating the problem and will update this post regularly.
The maintenance to the Single Sign On system has been completed. Please report any problems to the Help Desk at helpdes.fau.edu.
The Office of Information Technology will be performing critical systems maintenance on Thursday, 01/28/2015 from 12:00 AM to 7:00 AM during the OIT maintenance window. This maintenance will require that numerous servers be rebooted and may result in longer then usual service disruptions.
The following services may experience periods of downtime between 3am and 7am. Directory Services (LDAP), Single Sign-on, Blackboard, FileLocker, Banner Self Service, Internet Native Banner (INB), DNS, Identity Manager, and the High Performance Computing Clusters.
Please note: Many systems such as Blackboard, Single Sign-on and Banner will remain online, however, users may experience reduced functionality during this maintenance period.
Many mailing list owners may have received numerous (400+) error messages sent from sympa@lists.fau.edu. The messages are automatically generated by Lists.fau.edu when a user’s email address is updated and may be ignored. Please note we are investigating a way to prevent these warnings in the future.
Example Message:
User {netid}@fau.edu could not change his member email address (new email address is {netid}@health.fau.edu) because he is included via a the following data sources: …
If you are able to do so, you should probably update these data sources with
this person’s new email address.
OIT has completed updates to the Identity Manager connection to MyFAU to correct a bug that prevents returning users from automatically receiving active directory accounts.
The maintenance to Blackboard has been completed.
Blackboard will updated this evening 8/22/2014 between 7:45 pm and 10:00 pm to correct an issue with calculated formula questions in some assignments and exams. We do not expect any user interruption during this process.