[RESOLVED] TouchNet Systems Maintenance, Wednesday, December 18th from 3:00AM to 7:00AM

The TouchNet payment processing system will be undergoing maintenance -Starting from 3:00am to 7:00am (EST) Wednesday, 12/18/2019.

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] Banner 8X/XE Maintenance, Friday December 6th from 5:00 AM to 6:00 AM

Banner will be down on Friday morning, 12/6/2019, from 5:00 AM. OIT will be installing five code releases for the Accounts Receivables department in order to correct a recent production matter. Banner is expected to be available after 6:00 AM. – Completed.

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

{Resolved}Banner 8X/XE Maintenance, Friday December 6th from 5:00 AM to 6:00 AM

Banner will be down on Friday morning, 12/6/2019, from 5:00 AM. OIT will be installing five code releases for the Accounts Receivables department in order to correct a recent production matter. Banner is expected to be available after 6:00 AM.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Workday

Student 2Factor Enrollment and Prompt

Tbe student 2factor enrollment tool and prompt will be updated with new and improved messaging at 5 pm Friday November 22, 2019.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Canvas / LMS, Educational Technologies, Email, Instructional Technologies, Lecture Capture, Video Conferencing

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Nov 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, 11/21/2019 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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Financial Aid MiniTerm implementation
Description of change: OIT will be making modifications to the following items which are required for MiniTerm implementation:
1. Created the function for use in FAU Financial Aid to calculate a given student’s Aid Period.
2. Modified short term advance approval process for mini terms.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: ​Not Applicable
Expected End-user impact: During this time, ​no end-user impact is expected.

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Fix a production issue with multiple active @health.fau.edu email addresses.
Description of change: OIT will be fixing the AMCAS loading process to resolve an issue with ​multiple active @health.fau.edu email addresses.Type of
Downtime window start 11/21/2019 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 11/21/2019 5:00 AM
Affected services: ​The AMCAS loading process
Expected End-user impact: During this time, ​no end-user impact is expected.

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BANNER 8X/XE pre-requisite General and Student upgrades/patches/administrative pages installation
Description of change: OIT will be promoting and installing the necessary releases which are pre-requisite to the Financial Aid and Accounts Receivable modules of the BANNER 8X/XE systems which have been requested for compliance.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: ​​BANNER 8X/XE systems
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the Banner system will be unavailable while the new code is installed.

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Financial Aid
Description of change: OIT will apply a new function to calculate Bright Futures award amount,. This will be used to:
Verify that a student’s Bright Futures award amount is correct before disbursing the aid and estimate bright futures amounts on newly admitted (eligible) students
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: ​Banner Financial Aid
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Uncategorized

[Resolved] TouchNet Systems Maintenance, Wed. November 20th from 3:00AM to 7:00AM

The TouchNet payment processing system will be undergoing maintenance -Starting from 3:00am to 7:00am (EST) Wednesday, 11/20/2019
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. Oct 31 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, 10/31/2019 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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AutoAdvisor update for Mini Terms
Description of change: OIT will make AutoAdvisor mini term compliant and make the program stop dropping unregistered students after 3 weeks into a semester.
Downtime window start: 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12:00 AM
Affected services: AutoAdvisor
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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BHRIC Backups
Description of change: OIT will be moving backups of the BHRIC profile servers from our SAN and NetVault to a cloud service provider. ​
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/31/2019 6:00 AM
Affected services: ​BHRIC File Services
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems

[RESOLVED] TouchNet Payment Interruptions

This issue has been resolved.

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The TouchNet payment processing system is currently experiencing intermittent issues during the payment process.  

We are currently working on a resolution, and will update when it is resolved.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Email

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Oct 24 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, 10/24/2019 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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Account Self Service (accounts.fau.edu)
Description of change: OIT will merge the Update Your Password and Manage Your Account tiles. Users will be prompted to add a recovery email upon login when one isn’t already assigned. Users will need to confirm their password to update sms or recovery email. Password recovery questions will be removed.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: ​Accounts Self Service – https://accounts.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users may be required to restart an in-progress workflow.

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Account Self Service Updates
Description of change: OIT will install patches and updates to back-end services related to account management.
Downtime window start: 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12:00 AM
Affected services: ​Accounts Self Service – https://accounts.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Storage Maintenance
Description of change: ​OIT will be performing maintenance on some back-end storage.
Downtime window start: 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: No downtime is expected expected but there is a potential to affect: all services dependent on NetApp storage, including major ones such as, all VM’s on Hyper-V, all VM’s on VMware. Some of the major services potentially impacted are, but not limited to:
Banner, OIM, Andi Shares, Ibiweb, MSSQL databases and services dependent on those, Network Registration, Grouper, Owlapp, Edocs, SAS, Papercut
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. ​Server / Service administrators may see a pause in data transfer while a node is failing over and back.

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Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying a fix in Banner for an issue with international addresses overwriting local addresses.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 3:30 AM
Affected services: Banner, eCW (EHR system)
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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BHRIC Storage Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will update the Boca HIPAA environment storage to the latest software release as it patches a stability bug.
Downtime window start: 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: All services on the BHRIC​ services
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems

[RESOLVED] TouchNet Marketplace Issues

TouchNet Marketplace is now fully operational.  Thank you.

 

TouchNet Marketplace is currently experiencing issues.  A case has been opened with TouchNet by the Finance & HR Information Systems team.  We will provide any updates as we receive them.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems