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, 03/12/2015 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 for Office365
When: 4:00AM – 5:00AM
Affected services: Office 365, Outlook on 365, Health on 365, Microsoft Azure
Affected systems: adfs.fau.edu and its cluster members
Description of maintenance: Configure Office365 to use sso.fau.edu for authentication. This will allow users visiting various systems include Blackboard and MyFAU to directly access Office365 without needed to enter their password again.
User impact: There will be no downtime. Users will be able to access Office365 services without re-authenticating after logging into any Single Sign On Service such as Blackboard and MyFAU
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Decommission Blackberry system
When: 6:00AM – 6:15AM
Affected services: Blackberry Enterprise Server
Affected systems: besnode01
Description of maintenance: OIT will be decomissioning the Blackberry Enterprise Server. All users with Blackberries are now using ActiveSync to send/receive mail and BES is no longer needed.
User impact: No end-user impact is expected
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Blackboard Maintenance
When: 5:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: Blackboard
Affected systems: Blackboard
Description of maintenance: Apply Hotfix to fix issue with Blackboard Enterprise Surveys
User impact: Blackboard temporarily unavailable
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