The University Single Sign On System will briefly undergo maintenance from 12:10 am to 12:20 am Saturday January 27. During this period users may be unable to login to Workday, Banner Self Service, Google Applications, Office 365, Ezproxy, and other Single Sign On supported services.
Single Sign On System Maintenance
OIT Systems Maintenance – Thurs. Jan 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, 01/25/2018 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 Upgrade
Description of change: Single Sign On will be updated to prompt users to provide important information when login in to specific sites and services.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Single Sign On – All services such as Banner Self Service, Workday, Canvas, Office 365, and others which use Single Sign On
Affected systems: shibboleth1p, shibboleth2p, shibboleth3p
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users may have difficulty logging into Canvas, Workday, Self Service and other services while upgrades are being performed.
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Updates to Self Service Account
Description of change: We are applying patches to the backend systems. These changes should not cause any loss of service.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Banner, OIM
Affected systems: Banner Database, boc22oimp1, boc22oimp2
Expected End-user impact: During this time no end-user impact is expected.
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Oracle Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying the latest Oracle quarterly patch updates to the production databases.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner production, Report Caster production, Oracle Identity Manager production, Identity Manager (IDM) production, ODS production, MSOP instance, MyFAU, Blackboard
Affected systems: bannerprd, boc22ora01, boc22ora03, boc22ora05, boc22ora07, odsprod, mcoracle, bbloracle
Expected End-user impact: During this time services listed above will be unavailable at times.
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Security Enhancements for public facing IIS servers.
Description of change: OIT is changing the cryptographic protocols that are allowed for IIS servers that are public facing. Beginning on the 25th only TLS 1.2 will be allowed to those servers. The servers will still be able to use other protocols, but the servers no longer be able to accept any protocol other than TLS 1.2.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Various. Mostly *.fau.edu websites hosted on Windows Servers running IIS. See Affected Systems for a list of IIS servers that will be affected.
Affected systems: ADCON, BBC, BOC22BANRDBRKR1, BOC22BANRDBRKR2, BOC22CFDEV1, BOC22CFDEV2, BOC22CFPROD1, BOC22CFPROD2,
BOC22DEVEMS, BOC22DMS01, BOC22FINAID, BOC22FUSION, BOC22HOU3, BOC22IEA1, BOC22IEADEV1, BOC22KOFAXCAP, BOC22KOFAXCAPT,
BOC22RDWEB, BOC22SATRANE, BOC22TALWEB1, BOC22TALWEB2, BOC22TALWEBDEV1, BOC22TALWEBDEV2, BOC22WAPPORTAL, BOC22WAPSPF,
BOC22WEB5, BRAIN, CONTROLLER, DORSRV1, DORSRV2, ECHOAPI, ECHOAPITEST, ECHOPROC1, ECHOPROC6, ECHOPROC7, ECHOPROC8, ECHOTEST,
ECHOWEB, FAUWEB5, FAUWEB6, ISS, ISSDEV, NWRDCREMOTECON, PINKY, SCOM, XITRACS, XITRACSTEST, YAKKO
Expected End-user impact: During this time, systems will be unavailable when the servers are rebooted for changes to take effect. Afterwards clients will need to be running an OS/Browser that supports TLS 1.2 to connect to the services hosted on these systems.
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[Resolved] Frevvo is currently down
Frevvo has now been restored, as have the dependent services.
The Frevvo form server is currently down. This impacts, but is not limited to, the following:
Graduate Admissions ApplicationUndergraduate Admissions ApplicationFrevvo forms created under the fau.edu tenant
We are currently investigating the cause and will provide updates as they are available.
Potential Issues Connecting to the Campus VPN
VPN users connecting to the VPN may encounter an error that says “Authentication Rejected by Server” when they attempt to connect to the VPN. This is caused by a bug introduced in a recent Windows Update patch. If you encounter this error, upgrade your VPN client by downloading a new version from the VPN webpage. The VPN webpage is accessible from the OIT homepage. If you do not encounter the problem, and are prompted by the VPN to upgrade your client, allow it to do so to avoid potential issues in the future.
Possible delays in password changes
We are applying updates during the winter break that may cause delays in password changes. Please be aware we are actively monitoring the process.
OIT
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Nov 30 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, 11/30/2017 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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Canvas Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on Canvas. No disruption of service is anticipated.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: Canvas
Affected systems: boc22devproc, Canvas – Hosted
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no downtime is expected. Once the update has been completed, users with a preferred name set in Workday or Banner will see the change in Canvas.
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Updates to FAU Account Self Services portal
Description of change: OIT will be applying patches to the backend systems to improve the account claiming process for users.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:30 AM
Affected services: OIM, OUD, MyFAU, Waveset, DSEE, Google Apps and Gmail
Affected systems: boc22oimp1, boc22oimp2
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. Changes should not cause any loss of services or impact access to any sites.
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Email System Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be preforming steps on the email system to enable additional encryption options
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:15 AM
Affected services: All Office 365 email users
Affected systems: Exchange 365
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 moving several IPs from the old load balancer to the new load balancer hardware.
Downtime window start: 4:30 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
OIT Units involved in the change Systems, fauapps
Affected services: Coldfusion apps, OIM and anything that authenticates off OIM, alertportal.fau.edu, pinkypass, owlrec, hpc website,
Affected systems: boc22cfdev.fau.ed, boc22cfprod.fau.edu, boc22oudp.fau.edu, alertportal.fau.edu, ugapp.fau.edu, owlrec.fau.edu, pinkypass.fau.edu, hpc.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users will not be able to access the services listed above for about 10 minutes at a time while the IPs are being moved from the old load balancer to our new load balancer.
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Oracle Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying the latest Oracle quarterly patch updates to the production databases.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner production, Report Caster production, Oracle Identity Manager production, Identity Manager (IDM) production, ODS production, MSOP instance
Affected systems: bannerprd, boc22ora01, boc22ora03, boc22ora05, boc22ora07, odsprod
Expected End-user impact: During this time, services listed above will be unavailable
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Server Chassis Maintenance
Description of change: OIT/Systems will be performing maintenance on a server chassis
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: SSO, DHCP, DNS, LDAP, Network Monitoring,
Affected systems: Boca 96 VRTX, BOC96HV01, BOC96HV02, BOC96ESXI01, BOC96ESXI02, boc96dns, dhcpboc1, dhcpboc18, dnsboc1, ldapboc1, ldapboc1-el6, overwatch, shibboleth2p,
Expected End-user impact: During this time, services listed above will be unavailable. Most services are redundant, however SSO may be intermittenly unavailable
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Digital Signage Improvements
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading Fourwinds digital signage from 5.1.1 to 5.4 for the Marketing department.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Four Winds digital signage for the Marketing on-prem players.
Affected systems: 3 Marketing on-prem content players.
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the Marketing department will not be able to manipulate content during the upgrade, however, existing content will continue to be displayed. Once the upgrade is complete, OIT will need to update the 3 content players as well as any computer using Content manager for these 3 players.
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[COMPLETED] Network Maintenance – Saturday November 25th from 6:00 a.m. until 6:30 a.m.
The network maintenance scheduled for this morning was completed at 6:30 a.m. All services are expected to be operational at this time.
Network Maintenance – Saturday November 25th from 6:00 a.m. until 6:30 a.m.
OIT will be performing network maintenance on Saturday, November 25th from 6:00 a.m. until 6:30 a.m. During this time, networked services on the Boca Raton campus will be intermittently unavailable for 15-20 minutes. All services are expected to be returned to normal operation before 6:30 a.m.
Single Sign On Update
The single sign on system will be updated at 1 am November 10, 2017. This may briefly affect users authenticating to Workday, Canvas, OwlApps, and other services.
[Resolved] Mediasite Catalog Presentation Video Service Temporarily Unavailable
An issue that was preventing playback of Mediasite Catalog Lecture Capture presentation videos has been resolved.