OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Nov 3 from 12:00AM 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, 11/03/2022 from 12:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) Database View Update
Description of change: An Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) database view and related program will be modified for the Google to Microsoft migration project. Adding functionality to track changes for students in multiple areas in Banner.
Downtime window start: 11/03/2022 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/03/2022 6:00 AM
Affected services:
End-user impact: No downtime or user interruptions are expected.

Server updates
Description of change: OIT will apply updates to servers that host GradeMan, ServiceAwards, SoftLic,TechFee
Downtime window start: 11/03/2022 12:00 AM
Downtime window end:11/03/2022 3:00 AM
Affected services: GradeMan, ServiceAwards, SoftLic,TechFee
End-user impact: The services listed above will be offline while updates are being applied.

REDCap Update
Description of change: OIT will apply updates to REDCap
Downtime window start: 11/03/2022 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/28/2022 1:00 AM
Affected services: REDCap
End-user impact: REDCap service will be offline during update.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Research Computing, Systems

[RESOLVED] TouchNet Systems Maintenance on Friday, October 28, 2022, from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM

The TouchNet payment processing system will be undergoing maintenance beginning at 3:00 am through to 7:00 am (EST) on Friday, October 28, 2022.

This affects student payment services (Bill+Payment), as well as all Marketplace Stores, uPay sites and TouchNet ready partner payment services. We expect all systems to be back online no later than 7:00 am (EST) that morning. When the system is back up and ready to go, this message will be updated. You may wish to place warnings on your website, or take your store offline. If this scheduled downtime creates a conflict for your operations, please feel free to contact us at FIS@fau.edu for further discussion.

Expected End-user impact: During this maintenance period, all student payment services (Bill+Payment), as well as all Marketplace Stores, uPay sites and TouchNet ready partner payment services will be unavailable.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Workday

[Resolved] Mass SMS Texts are being delayed or not sent

We are currently experiencing issues with the Mogli texting tool used with Salesforce. Mass texting request have been paused for the moment as we investigate.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Educational Technologies, Email, Systems, Uncategorized

Addition of Google Workspace Quota Login Prompt

Starting at 4 pm October 14th, 2022 users who are using more than 5GB in Google Workspace will receive a notification upon login to all SSO services. This prompt will continue until they decrease their Google Workspace usage. Please be aware that it may take up to 48 hours for Google correctly report usage to OIT so please be patient after cleaning up your account. More information may be located at the Google Workspace site. https://www.fau.edu/oit/google.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Educational Technologies, Email, Instructional Technologies, Research Computing, Systems, Workday

Google Workspace idle account suspension

OIT will be suspending inactive Alumni accounts (those not used for +180 days) at 8 am Thursday, October 13th.

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

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Sept 29 from 3:00AM 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, 09/29/2022 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Disallow personal devices from being managed by FAU’s Microsoft tenant
Description of change: OIT will be disabling the feature that allows personal devices to be joined to FAU’s Microsoft Azure AD.
Downtime window start: 09/29/2022 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/29/2022 6:00 AM
Affected services: Personal devices
End-user impact: End users will no longer be able to join their personal devices to Azure AD

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing server maintenance on Banner. During this time, access to the job scheduling system may be unavailable.
Downtime window start: 09/29/2022 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/29/2022 7:00 AM
Affected services: Appworx
End-user impact: Appworx will be unavailable during the upgrade.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Sept 8 from 12:00AM 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, 09/08/2022 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Certificate Renewal
Description of change: The research computing team will be renewing or replacing the certificates on the following services:
Hipaa file system listener for frevvo
General Purpose file system listener for Frevvo
Redcap File Storage
Redcap
Graduate Application
Downtime window start: 09/08/2022 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/08/2022 6:00 AM
Affected services: Hipaa file system listener for Frevvo, General Purpose file system listener for Frevvo, Redcap File Storage, Redcap, Graduate Application
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT is updating certificates to ensure secure data transfer on servers related to user account management.
Downtime window start: 09/08/2022 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/08/2022 5:00 AM
Affected services: User account management system – OUD
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT is updating certificates to ensure secure web data transfer (https) on our document management system servers (onbase).
Downtime window start: 09/08/2022 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/08/2022 4:00 AM
Affected services: Document management system – Onbase
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

Email Security Change
Description of change: OIT Security is applying an email security change to only OIT accounts.
Downtime window start: 09/08/2022 8:30 AM
Downtime window end: 09/08/2022 8:35 AM
Affected services: Email
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

Desktop Security Change
Description of change: OIT will be making a security related change to desktops on the Boca campus.
Downtime window start: 09/08/2022 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/08/2022 8:00 AM
Affected services: OIT supported desktops and laptops on Boca campus
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT is upgrading BANNER Financial Aid for the 2021–22 FISAP reporting.
Downtime window start: 09/08/2022 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/08/2022 5:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

System Configuration Change
Description of change: OIT will be performing security enhancements on the HBOI campus.
Downtime window start 09/08/2022 4:00 AM
Downtime window end 09/08/2022 4:30 AM
Affected services: LDAP Authentication, Multicast Name Resolution
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

Canvas Subaccount Clean Up
Description of change: OIT is reorganizing the Canvas Subaccounts to facilitate more precise use of plugins for proper groups in Canvas.
Downtime window start: 09/07/2022 11:30 PM
Downtime window end: 09/08/2022 3:30 AM
Affected services: Canvas
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

REDCap Update
Description of change: This is a routine REDCap update.
Downtime window start: 09/08/2022 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/08/2022 1:00 AM
Affected services: REDCap
Expected End-user impact: REDCap will be unavailable during the update.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Canvas / LMS, Educational Technologies, Email, Research Computing, Systems

Single-sign on delays and errors

We are currently experiencing intermittent issues with single-sign on that may cause delayed logins or errors while logging into services such as Workday and Canvas. We are working on resolving the issue as soon as possible.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.

OIT

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Educational Technologies, Email, Instructional Technologies, Network and Telecom, Systems, Uncategorized, Workday

Graduate College Admissions Application Restart

The Graduate College Admissions Application needed to be restarted several times between 10 pm and 10:30 pm on August 10th, 2022 to resolve an issues with the Fall 2022 term and filtering degree programs. The issues have now been resolved and there should be no additional downtime.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems

Network Maintenance: July 21 5-6am

As part of OIT’s annual continuity of services testing, OIT will be conducting tests that will potentially interrupt campus services intermittently between 5am to 6am on Thursday, July 21.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Canvas / LMS, Educational Technologies, Email, Instructional Technologies, Lecture Capture, Network and Telecom, Research Computing, Systems, Uncategorized, Video Conferencing, Workday