WORKDAY 2021R1 – Inbox and Notification Count Not Updating After Action (known issue)

Please note that Workday has identified an issue that is causing the count of inbox and notifications to not change after taking action on an Inbox item or marking a Notification as Read

In the WD 2021R1 Release there is a defect in Cross Application Services, Notifications and Alerts, User Experience

Workday has provided a workaround for this defect until they have corrected the problem. They recommend that you refresh your browser to see an updated count of inbox and notification items.

We will provide an update as soon as we receive one from Workday.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Workday

[Resolved] FAU experiencing internet issues

UPDATE: The issue has been resolved and users should be able to connect without issues now.

 

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FAU is currently experiencing internet  problems that may make it hard or slow to connect to systems and sites. It is being investigated and will post an update when we have more information.

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OIT Systems Maintenance – Thurs. March 4 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, 03/04/2021 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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Banner table for EZ Advising Data
Description of change: OIT will create a new Banner table to store Advising data.
Downtime window start: 3/4/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 3/4/2021 1:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: No user impact is anticipated during this time.

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[RESOLVED] TouchNet Systems Maintenance, Friday, February 26th from 3:00AM to 7:00AM

The TouchNet payment processing system will be undergoing maintenance -Starting from 3:00am to 7:00am (EST) Friday, February 26th. 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

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 25 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, 02/25/2021 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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Moving Virtual Machines on the HPC Cluster
Description of change: OIT will be moving several virtual machine on the HPC cluster.
Downtime window start   2/25/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end    2/25/2021 6:00 AM
Affected services: completesystems1, NFSv4 testing up19-beegfs-bridge, rna3d
Expected End-user impact: ​These servers will be offline during the maintenance window as we are migrating them to a new virtual machine cluster.

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HPC Cluster Centos 7.9 Update
Description of change: OIT will update all compute nodes on the HPC cluster to the latest version of Centos 7.9 including an upgrade to the Cuda 11.2 drivers.​
Downtime window start   2/25/2021 8:00 AM
Downtime window end     3/4/2021 8:00 PM
Affected services: All research computing compute and GPU nodes.​
Expected End-user impact: As compute nodes drain of tasks they will automatically reboot into a new disk image. This will impact users start time for jobs and will impact GPU gobs and MPI jobs which may need slight configuration changes.

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Appworx Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will updatie JDK for Appworx production master and master agent.​
Downtime window start    2/25/2021 6:00 AM
Downtime window end     2/25/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: Appworx production​
Expected End-user impact: Appworx will temporarily be offline while restarting the services.​

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Banner Financial Aid 8.39.1.1 and 8.39.1.2 regulatory updates
Description of change: OIT apply regulatory updates for Pell table and Direct Loan.
Downtime window start     2/25/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end      2/25/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: ​Not Applicable
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this time.

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pdate OwlForm: SWAHSCH
Description of change: OIT will populate the Calculated GPA into the Admissions GPA field for EDI transcripts OwlForm: SWAHSCH
Downtime window start     2/25/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end      2/25/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: Not applicable
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this time.

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Add data to Admissions PopSel view
Description of change: OIT will add new data fields on Admissions PopSel view for test score codes AP66, AP68, PMPF1 and PMPF2 flags (Y/N) to indicate if students have taken exam course.
Downtime window start     2/25/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end      2/25/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: ​Not applicable
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this time.

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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 18 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, 02/18/2021 from 12:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

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Server Upgrade
Description of change: ​​OIT will be upgrading the operating system on its authentication servers.
Downtime window start: 2/18/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/18/2021 6:00 AM
Affected services: ​Active Directory (computer login)
Expected End-user impact: During this time, authentication to active directory may be delayed and there might be possible intermittent authentication issues on the Boca campus.

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Database Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying the January 2021 Oracle patchset updates to all production databases
Downtime window start: 2/18/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/18/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services:
Banner production
Admin Pages (Forms)
Application Navigator
Banner Access Manager
Banner self-service
Touchnet – Payments/Deposits
Workflow
uAchieve – DARS
FLVS
Transcripts

Appworx

Harvest

ODS

FAUDW Warehouse
DWPROD: OwlDone
DWPROD: FinancialAid Attendance Survey

IEAP Warehouse

WebFOCUS/ReportCaster

OIM
Account claiming
Password resets

MSOP Instance
ACH_PROD: ACH or VPAS
GBP_PROD: Mandatory Course Entry Quiz
WORKDESK_PROD: accounts.fau.edu – Accounts Self Service
CANV_EGRADES_PROD: Canvas Electronic Grading “Banner Grade Submissions” in Canvas
FAUVISITOR_PROD: Wireless network authentication for guests.
FREVVOAPI_PROD: 4P Configuration, Admissions Status, Znumber page, ssoauth.fau.edu/*, egrades.fau.edu/* (except egrades itself)
GROUPER_PROD: Group Management – grouper.fau.edu
PHONEBILL_PROD: Phonebill application pre latest system.
PWDEXPIRE_PROD: Password expiration
REG_PROD: network registration, talon.fau.edu/netreg, talon.fau.edu/networkregistrationadmin, DHCP Logger
FREVVO61_PROD: Frevvo
NEWUNDERGRAD_PROD: Undergraduate Admissions
OWLAPP_PROD: Graduate Admissions
OWLRESIDENCY_PROD: Residency Project
ONBOARDUSR: OwlDone ​
​Expected End-user impact: During this time, the listed services will be temporarily offline while the patches are applied. Some applications may need to be restarted after the maintenance is complete.

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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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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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[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

 

 

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