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.

Network and Telecom: The power upgrade for the voice system in T-6 has been completed.

Upgrading the power for the voice system in T-6, Tuesday, 4/3/12 @ 5am

On Tuesday, April 3, 2012, from 5:00am till 7:00am CI will be upgrading the power for the voice system in T-6. During this time there will be no FAU phone service in the T-Area, Building 69, or the Baldwin House. If you have an emergency and you are located in these areas please dial 911 from a cellular or a non-FAU phone. The FAU police department can be reached at 561-271-5163.

Network: Power and network issue in Jup 04 / UP have been resolved.

Regards,

Jim Gorycki jimg@fau.edu office: 561-297-2124 mobile: 561-239-5344

IRM will be performing maintenance on firewall hardware from 2:00a.m to 6:00a.m. this Monday morning. During this time, access to the internet from FAU’s campuses may be briefly interrupted in addition to intermittent interruptions in access to wired dorm networks, wireless, new pre-production Banner servers, College of Science and Engineering, Culture and Society, and Echo recordings.

Additional maintenance is scheduled for Wednesday morning. A separate notification will be sent out regarding that maintenance window.