Completed – IRM Systems Maintenance, April 21, 2011 from 3:00am to 7:00am

IRM will be performing routine systems maintenance which includes but is not limited to rebooting Windows servers as deem necessary, installing critical patches and other health checks on Thursday, 04/21/2011 from 3:00am to 7:00am during IRM maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When : 3:00 AM – 5:00 AM

Affected Systems: SharePoint (Spwfe2.fau.edu), Owlapp (Owlapp2.fau.edu), Blackboard (Bbpproxy1.fau.edu)

Affected Services: SharePoint, Owlapp, Blackboard

Description of Change: We will be migrating spwfe1, bbpproxy1 and owlapp1 from VMware ESXi to Hyper-V. Blackboard, Owlapp and SharePoint should not experience any downtime. We will be keeping backups of the VMware machines in case there are any problems and will be able to revert at any time during the process.
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When: 4:00 AM – 6:00 AM

Affected Systems: Banner – Finance and Finance SSB 8.4 upgrade

Description of Change: Upgrading Finance and Finance SSB 8.4 – Banner Finance users and jobs will be impacted during this time.

Posted in Educational Technologies, Email, Systems

Resolved – Emergency restart of Blackboard today at 12:50pm

There will be an emergency restart of Blackboard at 12:50pm  to 1:20pm today (Friday, February 11) that is necessary in order to keep the system running. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.

Posted in Email

Resolved – Blackboard Offline

Blackboard is currently unavailable due to some unexpected issues. We are working to resolve and apologize for the inconvenience.

Posted in Email