OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 11 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, 02/11/2021 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

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Server maintenance
Description of change: OIT is applying a workaround to resolve some browser compatibility issues with our electronic document storage system, edocs.fau.edu.
Downtime window start: 2/11/2021 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/11/2021 7:30 AM
Affected services: Edocs.fau.edu (Online Document Management/Storage System)
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected

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eGrades updates
Description of change: OIT will remove requirement to enter LDA for students with midterm grade of F.
Downtime window start: 2/11/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/11/2021 12:00 AM
Affected services: eGrades; Canvas grading
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. After the change, faculty will not have to enter LDA for any midterm grades.

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GradCAS Data Load Integration
Description of change: OIT is creating a process to load GradCAS application data to Banner.
Downtime window start: 2/11/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/11/2021 12:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Honors Report Update Owldone
Description of change: OIT will update the OwlDone Honors Report to order the report by Date.
Downtime window start: 2/11/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/11/2021 12:00 AM
Affected services: OwlDone
Expected End-user impact: During this time, Owldone will be unavailable for about 5 minutes during restart.

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Add the CA hold to inactived student hold lift process.
Description of change: Add the CA hold to the hold lift process for inactivated students. Added the CA hold to the hold lift control table.
Downtime window start: 2/11/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/11/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: None
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 4 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, 02/04/2021 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

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Single Sign-on Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will make changes needed to fix a filter.
Downtime window start: 2/4/2021 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/4/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: Single Sign-on
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Voice Mail Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the software on the voicemail servers.
Downtime window start: 2/4/2021 9:00 PM
Downtime window end: 2/5/2021 12:00 AM
Affected services: Voice Mail and Voice Directory
Expected End-user impact: During this time, there will be approximately 1-2 minutes where callers will be unable to leave a voicemail or access the voice directory.

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Frevvo Production Server Update
Description of change: OIT will update Frevvo Forms Server to the newest version.
Downtime window start: 2/4/2021 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/4/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: Frevvo forms server, Admission Application Forms, COVID Attestation Form
Expected End-user impact: During this time, University forms will be offline. Users should be directed to try to submit again after the maintenance window.

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Server Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the operating system on 2 of its authentication servers.
Downtime window start: 2/4/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/4/2021 6:00 AM
Affected services: Active Directory
Expected End-user impact: During this time, authentication to AD may be delayed. There might be intermittent authentication issues on the Jupiter campus.

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OnBase transcript solution: Eprint replacement
Description of change: OIT will implement an OnBase transcript solution to replace Eprint EDI transcripts
Downtime window start: 2/4/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/4/2021 12:00 AM
Affected services: OnBase
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. This is a new solution in OnBase

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User Manager Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be adding a new view/process to User Manager to control the manual deprovisioning of Health email accounts from Workday.
Downtime window start: 2/4/2021 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/4/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: User Manager – Used by Help Desk and admin staff
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Network and Telecom, Systems, Uncategorized

[RESOLVED] TouchNet Systems Maintenance, Friday, January 29th from 3:00AM to 7:00AM

The TouchNet payment processing system will be undergoing maintenance -Starting from 3:00am to 7:00am (EST) Friday, January 29th. 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, we will notify you. 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 time all student payment services (Bill+Payment), as well as all Marketplace Stores, uPay sites and TouchNet ready partner payment services will be unavailable during this maintenance cycle.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Workday

[RESOLVED] MYFAU currently unavailable

MYFAU is now back up and accessible.

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MYFAU currently unavailable. Issue is being investigated and will provide more information soon.

In the meantime, to access the most common links please use:

Student Email: http://mymail.fau.edu
Employee Email: http://outlook.fau.edu
FAU Self-Service: https://bannersso.fau.edu/ssomanager/c/SSB

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

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Jan 21 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, 01/21/2021 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

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uAchieve Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be making code changes to student interface library to pull additional student attributes from Banner into uAchieve.
Downtime window start: 1/21/2021 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 1/21/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: uAchieve/DARS Degree Auditing
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the uAchieve site may be unavailable for a short period of time.

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Single Sign-on Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be converting the InCommon metadata provider in Shibboleth from the legacy aggregate to their new MDQ service.
Downtime window start: 1/21/2021 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 1/21/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: Single Sign-on
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying updates to virtualization hosts.
Downtime window start: 1/21/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 1/21/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: Cisco meeting and videoconferencing services.
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the videoconferencing services will be unavailable.

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HPC Cluster Storage Addition
Description of change: OIT will be adding low priority storage to the HPC cluster as a means to offer additional storage for researcher scratch drives.
Downtime window start: 1/21/2021 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 1/21/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: HPC clusters
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Update Financial Aid Counselor Function for 2021
Description of change: OIT will be applying updates for 2021 : assign Financial Aid Counselors to students.
Downtime window start: 1/21/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 1/21/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: Not Applicable
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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REDCap upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading RedCAP from 10.0.18 to 10.7.0 for security reasons.
Downtime window start: 1/21/2021 12:05 AM
Downtime window end: 1/21/2021 6:00 AM
Affected services: RedCAP
Expected End-user impact: During this time, RedCAP will be unavailable.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Instructional Technologies, Network and Telecom, Systems, Video Conferencing

[RESOLVED] Starfish Success Network is not displaying connections

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The issue have been resolved.

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The Starfish system is currently not displaying any connections including advisors and advising offices for students. The problem is being investigated and will update when we have more information.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Educational Technologies, Instructional Technologies, Systems

COVID-19 Health Check-in Update

The Office of Information will be updating the COVID-19 Health Check-in which is displayed when users login to Canvas and Workday. This upgrade will occur at 8 pm and last until 8:15 pm.

While not expected some users may have difficulty logging in and updating their health status during this time. If you have any trouble please try again after 8:15 pm.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Canvas / LMS, Educational Technologies, Email, Instructional Technologies, Lecture Capture, Research Computing, Systems, Workday

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Dec 17 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, 12/17/2020 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

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Voice Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the software on the voice servers.
Downtime window start: 12/17/2020 7:00 PM
Downtime window end: 12/18/2020 3:00 AM
Affected services: Desk Phone Connectivity
Expected End-user impact: During this time, some phones may lose connectivity for 10-30 seconds while they switch to the backup servers.

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Database Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing storage maintenance on the boc22mssqlfau2 Microsoft SQL Cluster. Databases located on CIFS shares will be moved to iSCSI.
Downtime window start: 12/17/2020 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12/17/2020 7:00 AM
Affected services: The following databases on the boc22mssqlfau2 cluster will be offline for a short period while moved:
InternationalServices
COE Production
COE Development
propel
PSLA
ITNClient0310_samp
ITNCommon
ITNClient0310_prod
USA
FabLab
StudentAffairsDB
BDRegistrar
Expected End-user impact: During this time, services connecting to the databases listed above may go offline or need to be restarted during the maintenance.

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Client Configuration Change
Description of change: OIT will be making a change to which computers receive VPN settings.
Downtime window start: 12/17/2020 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12/17/2020 5:00 AM
Affected services: Group Policy
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Research Computing Scheduler Upgrade
Description of change: Research Computing will be upgrading the scheduler used to control jobs on the cluster. This upgrade should resolve several problems preventing GUI and MPI applications from running correctly.
Downtime window start: 12/17/2020 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12/17/2020 5:00 PM
Affected services: Research Computing Cluster
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the cluster will be offline while we apply this update to all compute nodes, login nodes, images, and dependent services.

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Update applicant’s email on UG Application
Description of change: OIT will enable a new Appworx job for the Admissions Office to manually update an applicant’s email address on their UG application.
Downtime window start: 12/17/2020 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12/17/2020 7:00 AM
Affected services: None
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Snaplogic upgrade
Description of change: OIT will upgrade Snaplogic to the newest version
Downtime window start: 12/17/2020 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12/17/2020 5:00 AM
Affected services: All Snaplogic pipelines
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Network and Telecom, Research Computing, Systems

[NETWORK OUTAGE RECOVERY] Late Friday Afternoon 4:15 through 5:30

FAU experienced unplanned network connectivity issues between 4:15 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. today. Network connectivity has been restored, but OIT may still be working to restore some services that may have been impacted.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Instructional Technologies, Network and Telecom, Systems

eGrades and University Forms

eGrades and the University Forms (frevvo) are currently experiencing an outage and may not work as expected. We are investigating the problem and will update this notice soon.

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