Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing critical maintenance on Banner from 1:00 a.m. until 5:00 a.m. on April 26th. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install the updates.
Downtime window start: 04/26/2024 1:00 AM
Downtime window end: 04/26/2024 5:00 AM
Affected services: Banner Admin, Self-Service, Registration
End-user impact: All end users of Banner will be impacted. Banner will be unavailable during this time.
[Completed] Banner Maintenance, Friday April 26 from 1:00AM to 5:00AM
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. April 18 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM
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, 04/18/2024 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 1:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on April 18th. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install the updates.
Downtime window start: 04/18/2024 1:00 AM
Downtime window end: 04/18/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner Admin, Self-Service, Registration
End-user impact: All end users of Banner will be impacted. Banner will be unavailable during this time.
Update Civics Literacy Process
Description of change: OIT will update the requirements to satisfy the Civics Literacy requirement
Downtime window start: 04/18/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 04/18/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: Students.
Posted in Banner and Admin Systems
Banner Maintenance
Please note that the Banner maintenance is taking a bit longer than expected.
The only affected services is Banner Administrative Pages and Banner Access Management which is currently unavailable. Student Registration and Student Self-Service are both online.
Thank you for your patience.
OIT
OIT Systems Maintenance, April 11 from 12:01AM to 2:00AM
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, 04/11/2024 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 from 12:00am to 2:00am on April 11th, 2024. During this time, the account claiming SMS will be unavailable.
Downtime window start: 04/11/2024 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 04/11/2024 2:00 AM
Affected services: SMS for Account Claiming
End-user impact: The SMS functionality for account claiming will be unavailable during this time.
Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing server maintenance from 12:00am to 2:00am on April 11th, 2024. During this time, there maybe a small interruption in service
Downtime window start: 04/11/2024 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 04/11/2024 2:00 AM
Affected services: Single-Sign On (SSO)
End-user impact: During this time, there maybe a small interruption in service.
Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on Banner from 1:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on April 11th. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install the updates.
Downtime window start: 04/11/2024 1:00 AM
Downtime window end: 04/11/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner Admin, Self-Service, Registration
End-user impact: All end users of Banner will be impacted.
Create and modify staging tables for Motimatic and Slate
Description of change: Create a custom staging table for Motimatic project, and add more columns to Slate staging table.
Downtime window start: 04/11/2024 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 04/11/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: Students
Non-Degree Acceptance Email Text Change
Description of change: OIT will update the text in the B. Dual Enrollment (FAU High) section of the non-degree acceptance email.
Downtime window start: 04/11/2024 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 04/11/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Student acceptance emails
End-user impact: Students receiving dual enrollment acceptance email
Civic Literacy Update
Description of change: OIT will update values for the Civic Literacy load.
Downtime window start: 04/11/2024 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 04/11/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Official, Unofficial Transcripts, eTranscripts, and EDI
End-user impact: Students
Owldone Updates
Description of change: OIT will update text in Owldone for FAFSA and EZAdvising and update the selection process for Honor Students.
Downtime window start: 04/11/2024 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 04/11/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Owldone
End-user impact: Students
Directory service configuration change
Description of change: OIT will be making a change to the directory service configuration
Downtime window start: 04/11/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 04/11/2024 6:10 AM
Affected services: Active Directory auth
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this time.
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. April 4 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM
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, 04/04/2024 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 Banner Appworx maintenance and Appworx will be unavailable during the period.
Downtime window start: 04/04/2024 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 04/04/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Appworx
End-user impact: Appworx will be unavailable during this time.
Server maintenance
Description of change: OIT is making some improvements to enhance security to the main FAU website www.fau.edu
Downtime window start: 04/04/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 04/04/2024 6:30 AM
Affected services: main FAU website
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.
Workday update
Description of change: OIT is implementing a process to import Banner course sections into Workday as period activity tasks, which assists in BOG reporting related to period activity pays.
Downtime window start: 04/04/2024 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 04/04/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Workday and Banner.
End-user impact: Faculty with period activity pays
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. March 7 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, 03/07/2024 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
Network Maintenance – Banner Services
Description of change: OIT will be performing network maintenance affecting a network utilized for Banner services from 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 a.m. on Thursday February 7th. During this time it i possible that Banner services may experience momentary disruptions.
Downtime window start: 03/07/2024 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 03/07/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Web Pub Secure network
End-user impact: We expect minor end user impact if any. While it is possible that there will not be disruption to services, we are anticipating potential momentary losses of connectivity for the Web Pub Secure network in Boca Raton housing the banner backend servers and some other internal web services
Microsoft 365 sync update
Description of change: OIT will be updating the system involved in Microsoft 365 account sync
Downtime window start: 03/07/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 03/07/2024 6:30 AM
Affected services: Account and group sync to Micorosft 365
End-user impact: OIT will be updating the system involved in Microsoft 365 account sync
Identity and Access Management Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing standard maintenance on our Identity and Access Management system from 5am to 6am.
Downtime window start: 03/07/2024 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 03/07/2024 6:00 AM
Affected services: User groups population from Banner, Workday, and other data sources. Provisioning LDAP groups. Provisioning Active Directory groups (limited affect)
End-user impact: User groups may be delayed after the update but this will be monitored and syncs started as needed.
Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading our load balancer appliances to newer versions.
Downtime window start: 03/07/2024 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 03/07/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: This will impact all services currently being handled by the load balancer from www.fau.edu, banner, talon, OnBase, lmsapps, and other services.
The impact should be a blip as the services fail over to the other load balancer.
End-user impact: Faculty, staff, students, departments, all of FAU.
ODS and Data Warehouse maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on ODS and the Data Warehouse from 4:00 a.m. until 6:00 a.m..
Downtime window start: 03/07/2024 4:00 AM
Downtime window end:03/07/2024 6:00 AM
Affected services: Reporting
End-user impact: Staff, Departmental users
Microsoft 365 Access Changes
Description of change: OIT will be implementing security policy changes on Friday March 8th from 12:00 a.m. until 3:00 a.m. affecting our Microsoft 365 services. Following the changes, certain access restrictions will be brought inline with existing policies covering FAU campuses.
Downtime window start: 03/08/2024 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 03/08/2024 3:00 AM
Affected services: Microsoft 365 services – Outlook, Office Online, Onedrive, Sharepoint, Teams, etc.
End-user impact: Access to Microsoft 365 services may be disrupted at points during the maintenance. According to our records, 17 accounts have used one of the blocked categories to access M365 in the past 30 days. However, those users are unable to access SSO currently so we do not anticipate any widespread issues. Once the changes are in place, a user that was able to get an access token while on a non-prohibited network will not be able to use those tokens on the prohibited networks.
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 29 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, 02/29/2024 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
Banner service maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on Banner services from 5:00 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Thursday February 29th.
Downtime window start: 02/29/2024 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/29/2024 5:30 AM
Affected services: Banner Admin, SSB
End-user impact: All Banner users (Faculty, Staff, Students, Department)
ODS and Data Warehouse maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on ODS and the Data Warehouse from 4:00 a.m. until 6:00 a.m. on Thursday February 29th.
Downtime window start: 02/29/2024 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/29/2024 6:00 AM
Affected services: Reporting
End-user impact: Staff and departmental users.
Server maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on the main university web servers from 6:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on Thursday February 29th.
Downtime window start: 02/29/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/29/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: www.fau.edu main site and any other virtual servers hosted on www.fau.edu
End-user impact: We do not expect any end user impact as the webservers are restarted in a rolling manner.
Database Change
Description of change: OIT will be updating the Banner Production Database.
Downtime window start: 02/29/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/29/2024 6:30 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: All the banner users (Faculty , Staff, Students, Department).
Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 22 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, 02/22/2024 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 1am. until 7:00 a.m. on February 22nd. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install the updates.
Downtime window start: 02/22/2024 1:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/22/2024 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 change
Description of change: OIT will be updating the Banner test environments
Downtime window start: 02/22/2024 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/22/2024 5:30 AM
Affected services: Banner test environments: DEVL, TEST
End-user impact: Banner test environments will be unavailable during this time.
Research Computing Health Frevvo Maintenance
Description of change: Research Computing will be performing system maintenance of the Health Frevvo file connector. During this time saving forms to \health.ad.fau.edu will be offline
Downtime window start: 02/22/2024 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/22/2024 9:00 AM
Affected services: Frevvo file connector
End-user impact: During this time users will not be able to save forms to this file location
Upgrade data center switch
Description of change: Networking will be upgrading a switch in building 96.
Downtime window start: 02/23/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/23/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Services running on Hyper V stack in bld 96
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected
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
Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 8 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, 02/08/2024 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 1:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on February 8th. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install the updates.
Downtime window start: 02/08/2024 1:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/08/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Self-Service, Banner Admin
End-user impact: Banner and any services relying on Banner will unavailable during this time.
Banner Database Change
Description of change: OIT will be performing some parameter changes in the Banner Production Database
Downtime window start: 02/08/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/08/2024 6:30 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: Banner and any services relying on Banner will unavailable during this time.
Server Move
Description of change: OIT will be moving an authentication system to a different location
Downtime window start: 02/08/2024 6:30 AM
Downtime window end: 02/08/2024 6:45 AM
Affected services: Active Directory
End-user impact: No end-user impact expected during this time