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, 01/25/2018 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 Upgrade
Description of change: Single Sign On will be updated to prompt users to provide important information when login in to specific sites and services.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Single Sign On – All services such as Banner Self Service, Workday, Canvas, Office 365, and others which use Single Sign On
Affected systems: shibboleth1p, shibboleth2p, shibboleth3p
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users may have difficulty logging into Canvas, Workday, Self Service and other services while upgrades are being performed.
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Updates to Self Service Account
Description of change: We are applying patches to the backend systems. These changes should not cause any loss of service.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Banner, OIM
Affected systems: Banner Database, boc22oimp1, boc22oimp2
Expected End-user impact: During this time no end-user impact is expected.
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Oracle Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying the latest Oracle quarterly patch updates to the production databases.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner production, Report Caster production, Oracle Identity Manager production, Identity Manager (IDM) production, ODS production, MSOP instance, MyFAU, Blackboard
Affected systems: bannerprd, boc22ora01, boc22ora03, boc22ora05, boc22ora07, odsprod, mcoracle, bbloracle
Expected End-user impact: During this time services listed above will be unavailable at times.
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Security Enhancements for public facing IIS servers.
Description of change: OIT is changing the cryptographic protocols that are allowed for IIS servers that are public facing. Beginning on the 25th only TLS 1.2 will be allowed to those servers. The servers will still be able to use other protocols, but the servers no longer be able to accept any protocol other than TLS 1.2.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Various. Mostly *.fau.edu websites hosted on Windows Servers running IIS. See Affected Systems for a list of IIS servers that will be affected.
Affected systems: ADCON, BBC, BOC22BANRDBRKR1, BOC22BANRDBRKR2, BOC22CFDEV1, BOC22CFDEV2, BOC22CFPROD1, BOC22CFPROD2,
BOC22DEVEMS, BOC22DMS01, BOC22FINAID, BOC22FUSION, BOC22HOU3, BOC22IEA1, BOC22IEADEV1, BOC22KOFAXCAP, BOC22KOFAXCAPT,
BOC22RDWEB, BOC22SATRANE, BOC22TALWEB1, BOC22TALWEB2, BOC22TALWEBDEV1, BOC22TALWEBDEV2, BOC22WAPPORTAL, BOC22WAPSPF,
BOC22WEB5, BRAIN, CONTROLLER, DORSRV1, DORSRV2, ECHOAPI, ECHOAPITEST, ECHOPROC1, ECHOPROC6, ECHOPROC7, ECHOPROC8, ECHOTEST,
ECHOWEB, FAUWEB5, FAUWEB6, ISS, ISSDEV, NWRDCREMOTECON, PINKY, SCOM, XITRACS, XITRACSTEST, YAKKO
Expected End-user impact: During this time, systems will be unavailable when the servers are rebooted for changes to take effect. Afterwards clients will need to be running an OS/Browser that supports TLS 1.2 to connect to the services hosted on these systems.
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