[Resolved] Blackboard – Copy Content Error

Instructors attempting to copy individual content item from their course either to another area of the same course or to a different course, may receive the following error message:

Error: Failed to grant read permission to the attached file for target course.

Blackboard Support is currently investigating the issue.

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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs., November 7 from 3:00 – 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, 11/07/2013 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window.  In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When: 3:00 – 7:00 AM
Affected services: Self-Service, Banner FAUP
Affected systems: Banner FAUP
Description of maintenance: The following updates will be installed in Banner productionEmployee Self Service 8.9.0 upgrade, Position Control 8.9.0.1 patch, HR/Payroll 8.9.0.4, 8.9.0.5, 8.9.0.6 patches, HR/Payroll 8.9.0.7, 8.9.0.8 patches, Employee Self Service 8.9.0.1, 8.9.0.2, 8.9.0.3 patches, Employee Self Service phpecex-ear-fix patch, WorkFlow 8.1.0.4.jar, 8.1.0.5.jar patches
User impact: FAUP may have to be down – Self Service related changes sometimes require shutting the system down during installation

When: 5:30 – 6:15 AM
Affected services: Blackboard
Description: Blackboard has released updates to several Building Blocks including Blackboard Mobile, Software Updates, Cloud Profiles, and Social Profiles.
User Impact: The features listed above will be temporarily unavailable

When: 4:00 – 5:00 AM
Affected services: Network Drives (Andi.fau.edu, student.fau.edu, and home.fau.edu)
Affected systems: Andi.fau.edu, student.fau.edu, and home.fau.edu
Description of maintenance: OIT will be migrating the andi.fau.edu, student.fau.edu and home.fau.edu websites to a new server. Migrate the ANDI, Student and Home websites from IIS7 on FAUWeb1 to IIS8 on FAUWeb6. DNS records will be updated to reflect the new locations.
User impact: Andi.fau.edu, student.fau.edu, and home.fau.edu will be intermittently inaccessible during the window.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Educational Technologies, Email, Network and Telecom, Systems

[Completed] Blackboard Maintenance

Blackboard maintenance has completed and all services are back operational.

 

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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, 10/31/2013 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When: 3:00 – 6:00AM
Affected services: Blackboard
Affected systems: Blackboard
Description of maintenance: Systems will be doing rolling restarts blackboard services to try to remedy a bug within blackboard.
User impact: Blackboard will be unavailable during the maintenance window.

When: 3:00 – 3:30AM
Affected services: University Fileserver (ANDI)
Affected systems: ANDI (fauandi1/fauandi2)
Description of maintenance: OIT will be physically moving the primary University fileserver (fauandi1\fauandi2). The system will be unavailable for approximately 15 minutes.
User impact: The ANDI server will be unavailable for approximately 15 minutes

When: 3:00 – 3:30AM
Affected services: Exchange email
Affected systems: exchangemb[01-03]
Description of maintenance: OIT will be rebooting some of the systems which support staff and faculty mail. We do not expect any interruption of service.
User impact: No end-user impact is expected

When: 3:00 – 7:00AM
Affected services: Banner
Affected systems: Banner
Description of maintenance: The following updates will be installed in Banner production: General 8.6.1 upgrade, Position Control 8.9.0 upgrade, HR/Payroll 8.9.0 upgrade, HR/Payroll 8.9.0.1, 8.9.0.2, 8.9.0.3 patches, Tax Updates #184, #185, #186
User impact: There will be no user impact

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Educational Technologies, Email, Network and Telecom, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Oct 10 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, 10/10/2013 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When: 5:00 – 6:00AM
Affected services: EMS
Affected systems: EMS
Description of maintenance: OIT will be patching EMS to the current version.
User impact: OIT will be patching EMS to the current version.

 

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Educational Technologies, Email, Network and Telecom, Systems

[Completed] Scheduled Maintenance – Echo 360 Course Video System – Oct 9, 6:00AM – 8:00AM

Maintenance is now complete and Echo course videos are available.

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Software updates are being performed to the Echo system this morning to correct several intermittent issues that have occurred in the last 2 months. Echo course video playback will be unavailable during this time.

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Scheduled Maintenance – Echo 360 Course Video System – Oct 9, 6:00AM – 8:00AM

Software updates are being performed to the Echo system this morning to correct several intermittent issues that have occurred in the last 2 months. Echo course video playback will be unavailable during this time.

Posted in Educational Technologies

RESOLVED – Intermittent Systems Availability

We are currently experiencing intermittent performance issues affecting Blackboard, Banner, and logins (single-sign on).

We will update this post regularly as we learn more.

OIT

 

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Educational Technologies, Email, Network and Telecom, Systems

Resolved: Echo Service Emergency Restart 10/4/2013 4:40pm-5:30pm

Resolved:  Echo360 will be intermittently unavailable from 4:40-5:30.  The Echo360 service needs to be restarted to free a blocked thread that is preventing content from being ingested.  Any user viewing an Echo recording will have their service interrupted while the item restarts.

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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Oct 3, 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, 10/03/2013 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window.  In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

www.fau.edu, Banner, SharePoint, Graduate application, fsaAtlas, SCAC, vCenter, Xitracs, PrivateEye, SCOM,  and SCVMM

 

When: 12:01AM
Affected Services: None
Affected Systems:  Systems which have SCCM client in OIT
Description of maintenance: OIT will be enforcing SCUP updates for Adobe Reader 10 / 11, Adobe Professional 10 / 11, and Adobe Flash (ActiveX & Plugin) to systems located in the Office of Information Technology.  The updates will be requested by SCCM and installed through Microsoft Update.  These updates will not upgrade the version of the software that is installed, yet rather update for security and functionality patches.
User Impact:  No end-user impact is expected.

When: 5:00 – 6:00AM
Affected services: www.fau.edu
Affected systems: webnet4-7
Description of maintenance:  We are preparing the www.fau.edu systems to introduce new features for FAU webpages.
User impact: No expected end user impact.

When: 3:00am – 7:00am
Affected services: Banner
Affected systems: Banner FAUP
Description of maintenance: The following updates will be installed in Banner production: Financial Aid 8.18.1.1, 8.18.1.2 patch, Mass Data Update Utility 8.1.0 upgrade, Position Control 8.9.0 upgrade, HR/Payroll 8.9.0 upgrade, HR/Payroll 8.9.0.2, 8.9.0.3 patch
User impact: No expected end user impact.

When: 3:00-6:00AM
Affected services: SharePoint, Graduate application, fsaAtlas, SCAC, vCenter, Xitracs, PrivateEye, SCOM, SCVMM
Affected systems: mssql1, mssql2
Description of maintenance: The storage for several Microsoft SQL servers will be migrated to the NetApp. The following services will be interrupted for a short period of time during the window: SharePoint, Graduate application, fsaAtlas, SCAC, vCenter, Xitracs, PrivateEye
User impact: The services listed above will be unavailable for approximately 60 minutes during the maintenance window.

When: 3:00-6:00AM
Affected services: Exchange
Affected systems: Exchange
Description of maintenance: OIT will be configuring our mail servers to support coexistence with Microsoft hosted Exchange on Office 365.
User impact: There is no end-user impact expected

 

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Educational Technologies, Email, Network and Telecom, Systems