ffice 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 Tuesday, 11/20/2012 from 11:30PM to 12:00AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When: 11:30PM – 12:00AM
Affected Services: Master Calendar
Affected Systems: events.fau.edu
Description of Maintenance: We will be uninstalling the old version and installing the new version of Master Calendar
User impact: Brief interruption of the master calendar can be expected during the upgrade

When: 11:30PM – 11:45PM
Affected services: Domain Controllers
Affected systems: Domain Controllers
Description of maintenance: Phase 1: The four primary domain controllers on the Boca campus will be assigned an additional IP on a DMZ network
User impact: None

Issue: We are currently experiencing some issues with our arcmail system.
Impact: Users are receiving bounce-back emails from archiver(at)arcmail2.fau.edu. Please note that these emails can be ignored. Emails are being delivered to individuals but not to the arcmail system.

We are working to resolve the issue and apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.
OIT

The MyFAU login issue has been resolved.

OIT

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MyFAU is being completely restarted and will be inaccessible during this time.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

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We are currently experiencing issues with logging in to MyFAU and are working to resolve the issue.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

OIT

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, 11/08/2012 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When: 3:00am – 4:30am
Affected Services: Exchange email
Affected Systems: exchangeca01, exchangeca02, exchangemb03
Description of Maintenance: 10GbE network cards will be installed on both Exchange front ends and offline mailbox server. Memory will also be upgraded in the mailbox server.
User impact: Some users may experience Outlook disconnects but will be reconnected, otherwise no other impact expected. One of the two front ends will be up at all times holding the load balanced name. All active mailbox servers will also be up.

When: 11/8/12 3:00 AM – 6:00 AM
Affected Services: DHCP, Blackboard, IDM, Network Registration, Graduate Application
Affected Systems: bba1, dhcpboc1, dhcpdav1, dhcpjup1, idm1, lintalon1, frevvo1
Description of Maintenance: The systems will be updated to the 6.3 version of Scientific Linux (frevvo1 will be updated to Oracle Linux 6.3)
User impact: Intermittent loss of service is expected for DHCP on Davie and Jupiter campuses and Graduate Application between 3:00AM and 6:00AM. Blackboard, IDM and NetReg may be unavailable for short periods of time, but this is unexpected.

When: 5:00am – 6:00am
Affected Services: banner sftp jobs, public webpages that depend on mysql, network time, omniupdate staging sites, wordpress
Affected Systems: fausftp, fausftp2, mysql01, ntp1, ntp2, omnientry, omniupdate, tstwordpress, wordpress
Description of Maintenance: Routine reboots for linux patches to take effect.
User impact: End users may notice that some public webpages that depend on mysql will not load properly, omniupdate staging will not be available, and wordpress will not be available during those machines’ reboot period. Reboots should happen within 10 minutes so interference should be minimal.

When: 6:00am – 6:10am
Affected services: EMS
Affected systems: fauweb1
Description: Enabling windows authentication in IIS for EMS Web client.
User Impact: EMS web client users will be prompted for authentication from IIS for their FAUNet ID account.

When: 5:00am
Affected services: Voice over IP servers
Affected systems: Voice over IP servers
Description of maintenance: A software upgrade for the Boca VOIP Servers will be installed.
User impact: There will be no interruption in voice services during this upgrade.

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, 10/25/2012 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When: 4:00 AM – 6:00 AM
Affected services: Admissions Application System
Affected systems: Admissions Application System
Description of maintenance: The Admissions application system will be upgraded to support Letters of Recommendation and an improved administrator and end user interface.
User impact: Graduate College applicants will not be able to create or manage admissions applications. Undergraduate Admissions applications and fees will be delayed and processed after 6:00 AM.

When: 3:00 AM – 4:30 AM
Affected services: Blackboard
Affected systems: Blackboard
Description of maintenance: Apply Blackboard Patchset2 as well as supplementary patches.
User impact: Blackboard will not be available during the proposed downtime.

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, 10/18/2012 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When: 5:30 AM – 5:45 AM
Affected Services: Secure ANDI server and 22_CM desktops
Affected Systems: FAU\BOC\22_CM desktops
Description of Maintenance: We will be adding a new GPO to enable IPsec communication between 22_CM desktops and the secure ANDI server
User impact: None

When: 5:00 AM – 7:00 AM
Affected services: Network
Affected systems: boc31Blo264Asw8224 = Cisco 2950, boc31uc100Bsw8221 = Cisco 2980, boc31Ecr178Bsw8227 = Cisco 3548
Description of maintenance: The goal of this change is to retire and replace the old data switch in the Student Union Building # 31-B Live Oak Pavilion. To accomplish this, the old device must be removed from service and the communications room will be rewired. This change will result in a network outage for the building mentioned above.
User impact: The data network in the Student Union Building 31-B Live Oak Pavilion will be affected by the switch upgrade.

When: 3:00 AM – 3:30 AM
Affected Services: http://sharepoint.fau.edu
Affected Systems: spwfe1, spwfe2, spapp1
Description of Maintenance: Bamboo Solutions Alert Plus and Alerts Administrator will be installed on the SharePoint farm.
User impact: No user impact is expected

When: 5:00 AM – 6:00 AM
Affected Services: ibiweb, AV/Creative Services shares, Blackboard (HP Chassis)
Affected Systems: NetApp Filers: bocana01.fau.edu, bocana02.fau.edu, HP chassis (passive), 7210 (passive), Cisco UCS management console, Dell CMC consoles
Description of Maintenance: We will be relocating rack RU13 to the old side of the datacenter. This will involve moving all ports in the switch to other racks.
User impact: The end user impact for the NetApp Filers will be anyone connecting through the front facing network (131.91.0.0).

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, 10/11/2012 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When: 5:00 am to 5:30am
Affected Services: Luminis (MyFAU)
Affected Systems: mcoracle.fau.edu
Description of Maintenance: Oracle quarterly PSU will be applied
User impact: Luminis (MyFAU) and Banner self-service will not be available

When: 5:30 am to 6:30am
Affected Services:
Electronic Thesis/Dissertation – https://swise.fau.edu/etd
OIT Training: https://swise.fau.edu/training
Technology Fee Admin: https://swise.fau.edu/techfee
United Way Admin: https://swise.fau.edu/unitedway
Blackboard Requests: https://swise.fau.edu/blackboard/
Affected Systems: swise.fau.edu
Description of Maintenance: Physically relocating server to another rack
User impact: swise applications will be unavailable during this time.

When: 6:00 AM – 6:10 AM
Affected Services: NetReg, Ibiweb2, idm
Affected Systems: ldapboc0
Description of Maintenance: ldapboc0 will be shutdown to have its allocated RAM increased.
User impact: No end user impact is expected as the service is load-balanced.

When: 5:30 AM – 6:30 AM
Affected services: DHCP
Affected systems: DHCPBOC0, DHCPBOC1
Description of maintenance: The goal of this change is to utilize new IP address ranges in buildings 10 and 67. The new IP address ranges will be enabled via DHCP for known clients. The old IP address ranges (131.91.x.x) and the new IP address ranges (10.x.x.x) will coexist in the same network/vlan.
User impact: Clients that are currently registered in Talon and are using DHCP will acquire a new IP address via DHCP.

When: 10/11/2012
Affected services: SCCM
Affected systems: SCCM
Description of maintenance: Allow SCCM to communicate fully with clients, in OIT, running XP by allowing communication to occur over RPC.
User impact: No end user impact is expected.

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, 00/03/2012 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When: 3:00AM – 4:30AM
Affected services: Blackboard
Affected systems: Blackboard
Description of maintenance: Apply Blackboard patches to alleviate performance issues as well as clear up errors.
User impact: Blackboard will not be available during the proposed downtime.

When: 10/4/2012 5:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected Services: Shibboleth Federated Logon for InCommon
Affected Systems: lintalon0.fau.edu
Description of Maintenance: We are installing MetaData (xml files) into Shibboleth.
User Impact: Shibboleth’s tomcat6 application server will be restarted multiple times and FAUNet ID access to Research.gov, EduCause.edu will be intermittently available during this time.

When: 5:00AM to 7:00AM
Affected services: Voicemail (Xpressions)
Affected systems: Xpressions
Description of maintenance: The upgrade is pertrhiformed to correct an issue with profiles not accepting messages
User impact: Users will not be able to leave or retrieve messages during the maintenance window