OIT will be performing network maintenance on Friday July 4th from 4:00 a.m. until 5:00 a.m.  During this time, there will be a network interruption lasting between 15-20 minutes affecting connectivity between FAU and the Internet. This interruption in service will affect many campus network-based resources including Blackboard and streaming media.

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, 06/26/2014 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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When: 3:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: Undergraduate Application: https://ugapp.fau.edu and Graduate Application: https://owlapp.fau.edu​
Affected systems: ugapp1, ugapp2, ugapp3, ugapp4, ugapp5​
Description of maintenance: We are upgrading the admissions application to improve usability. It will be offline from 3am until 6am while we redeploy all services.
User impact: The admissions applications will be offline. Once they return to service the admissions forms will look different and may require that users clear their browser cache.
At this time we know the select box usage is effected and they must be manipulated with a mouse instead of the keyboard. We have contacted the vendor about this problem.​

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When: 6:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: All domain-joined PCs​
Affected systems: All domain-joined PCs​
Description of maintenance: ​OIT will be changing the default domain for PCs to be ‘FAU’. When signing-in to a computer ‘FAU’ will be the default when asking for credentials. If you need to authenticate with a user account in the IRM domain you will need to enter IRM\netid and your password (this is rare)
User impact: ​When prompted for credentials, ‘FAU’ will be the default domain. There is no downtime expected for this change.

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When: 4:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: We will be moving the content directory to faster storage
Affected systems: Blackboard ​
Description of maintenance: ​Blackboard will be unavailable during the maintenance window. We expect some servers to be up by the 1 hour mark with the rest being brought up one at a time and expect to be finished by 6 AM
User impact: ​Blackboard will be unavailable during the maintenance window.

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