Blackboard will be unavailable from 3-4 AM due to emergency maintenance.

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Middleware

We have corrected the issue and Blackboard is online.  – 4:15 AM 08/24/2012

Blackboard currently offline, we are investigating and will update this entry soon.  – 03:38 AM 08/24/2012

The wired networks in the Student residence halls are not able to reach FAU web resources. We are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

Thank you

The networking department is upgrading an uplink to a switch in building 22 on Wednesday 07/11/2012 at 5:45 am. Estimated down time window will be approximately from 5:45 am to 7:00 am. The systems affected are the following. Blackboard Broadcast DHCP DNS Graduate Application Identity Manager PhoneBill Network Registration Lists SharePoint Talisma Xitracs OwlRadio Exchange

This is a reminder that Banner production FAUP will be unavailable starting today Thursday (6/28/2012) night from midnight to Friday (6/29/2012) morning 10:00am in order to complete Phase I of the fiscal year end roll process.

On Thursday, June 21st beginning at 6:00 pm, the Communication Infrastructure team will begin upgrading the phones and voice system for IP phones in building 22. This upgrade will cause intermittent interruptions for all telephone service in building 22 between the hours of 6:00 pm through 7:00 am on Friday, June 22.

In case of an emergency during this period, please dial 911 or contact the FAU Police Department at 561-271-5163 from a non-FAU phone.

If you experience telephone difficulties after 7:00 am on Friday, please open a trouble ticket with the FAU help desk at http://www.fau.edu/helpdesk/ or call 561-297-6235 for assistance.

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, 05/17/2012 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window.  In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When: 5:00 am – 6:00 am
Affected services: Blackboard
Affected systems: Blackboard
Description of maintenance: The goal of the change is to install the Bboogle building block on Blackboard production. This new tool will allow Faculty and Staff to link content stored in Google Applications with Blackboard and automatically creates Google Groups for courses.
User impact: None. No downtime is expected.

When: 6:00 AM – 6:30 AM
Affected services:  Active Directory (AD)
Affected systems:  davdcfau01
Description of maintenance:  An IDM agent is being installed on the Davie domain controller and must be rebooted afterwards.
User Impact: None expected.

The Davie Active Directory server (davdcfau01) has experienced a physical hardware failure.

We are working to bring up a virtual instance of the server.

We will post updates as we progress.