OIT Systems Maintenance

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 from Wednesday, 10/08 until Friday, 10/11 between 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Microsoft 365 Login Adjustments
Description of change: OIT will be making adjustments to Microsoft 365 sign-in restrictions. End user impact is expected to be minimal.
Downtime window start: 10/09/2024 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/09/2024 7:05 AM
Affected services: Microsoft 365 and Azure services including VPN.
End-user impact: Compromised accounts will no longer be able to be accessed prior to remediation by OIT. Administrative accounts will only allow signing from geographically local locations.

Banner Database updates
Description of change: Ellucian will be performing quarterly patch updates on Banner and other related database servers.
Downtime window start: 10/10/2024 2:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/10/2024 6:00 AM
Affected services: Banner production, Appworx, Harvest, Follett bookstore, Oracle Enterprise Manager, ODS, Data Warehouse, Self Service, Touchnet
End-user impact: Banner will be unavailable during this time

Banner Interface update for intersession classes
Description of change: Modifying Banner registration page to display a new warning message for intersession courses.
Downtime window start: 10/10/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/10/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during the maintenance.

Updating civic literacy process in Banner
Description of change: The BOG has approved the new Civics Literacy requirements effective Fall 2024. Modifying the process to include two courses to be in compliance with the BOG.
Downtime window start: 10/10/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/10/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during the maintenance.

Advanced VPN Client Updates
Description of change: OIT will be pushing additional updates to user running the Advanced VPN client starting October 8th, 2024. Users will receive a notification to upgrade their VPN client and they will be prompted to reboot their device afterwards in order to apply the changes.
Downtime window start: 10/11/2024 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/11/2024 7:05 AM
Affected services: Advanced VPN
End-user impact: Users running the Advanced VPN client will be prompted to upgrade their client. If the user chooses not to upgrade, it will be automatically scheduled for later in the evening. Following the upgrade process, the user will be prompted to reboot their device.

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OIT Systems Maintenance

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 Wednesday 10/2, Thursday, 10/3, Friday 10/4, from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Upgrade Jupiter WAN switch
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the wide-area network (WAN) switch in Jupiter
Downtime window start: 10/02/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/02/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Internet access for the Jupiter campus will be out during this time.
End-user impact: The Jupiter campus will lose network during the cutover

Forticlient Upgrades – Building 22 – Wednesday October 2nd
Description of change: OIT will be deploying Advanced VPN client updates to users of Building 22 starting at 7:00 a.m. on Wednesday October 2nd. OIT staff will be prompted to install updates to their VPN client software after that time.
Downtime window start: 10/02/2024 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/02/2024 7:05 AM
Affected services: Advanced VPN Clients in use by OIT staff
End-user impact: OIT staff will be prompted to update their VPN Client software. User may delay installation until later in the day if they wish, but installing the update will require a reboot shortly thereafter.

Forticlient Changes for a subset of IT Staff
Description of change:
Downtime window start: 10/02/2024 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/02/2024 7:05 AM
Affected services: NETSEC VPN for Networking and Security staff
End-user impact: Users should not see any impact if they are connecting from a university-owned and managed device. If a user tries to connect to the NETSEC VPN from a personal device, they will receive a failure message when logging in.

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing Banner server maintenance.
Downtime window start: 10/03/2024 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/03/2024 4:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: Banner will be unavailable during the window

Server upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the Appworx system
Downtime window start: 10/03/2024 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/03/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Appworx production
End-user impact: Appworx will be unavailable during this time.

BHRIC Network Maintenance
Description of change: OIT Will be performing network maintenance affecting the BHRIC network from 12:00 a.m. until 1:00 a.m. on Friday October 4th. During this time, connectivity between the BHRIC networks and the rest of FAU on the Boca Raton campus will be briefly interrupted.
Downtime window start: 10/04/2024 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/04/2024 1:00 AM
Affected services: Systems on the Boca Raton BHRIC network
End-user impact: Systems on the BHRIC will have a momentary loss of connectivity as the new changes are applied and routes reconverge

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OIT Systems Maintenance

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 Wednesday 9/25 through Saturday 9/28 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Advanced VPN Client Updates
Description of change: OIT will be deploying VPN client upgrades to devices using the Advanced VPN client starting September 25th, 2024. After this date, users with outdated VPN clients will be prompted to automatically update to the current version of the client.
Downtime window start: 09/25/2024 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/25/2024 12:05 AM
Affected services: Users using the Advanced VPN client including FAU PD.
End-user impact: Users with outdated VPN clients will be prompted to update to the newest version automatically. After the upgrade is complete, users will be prompted to reboot their computer.

Microsoft 365 Login Adjustments
Description of change: OIT will be making adjustments to Microsoft 365 sign-in restrictions. End user impact is expected to be minimal.
Downtime window start: 09/25/2024 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/25/2024 7:05 AM
Affected services: Microsoft 365 and Azure services including VPN.
End-user impact: Compromised accounts will no longer be able to be accessed prior to remediation by OIT.

Banner Database updates
Description of change:
Downtime window start: 09/26/2024 2:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/26/2024 6:00 AM
Affected services: Banner production, Appworx, Harvest, Follett bookstore, Oracle Enterprise Manager, ODS, Data Warehouse, Self Service, Touchnet
End-user impact: Banner will be unavailable

BHRIC Network Maintenance
Description of change: OIT Will be performing network maintenance affecting the BHRIC network from 12:00 a.m. until 1:00 a.m. on Friday September 27th. During this time, connectivity between the BHRIC networks and the rest of FAU on the Boca Raton campus will be briefly interrupted.
Downtime window start: 09/27/2024 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/27/2024 1:00 AM
Affected services: Systems on the Boca Raton BHRIC network
End-user impact: Systems on the BHRIC will have a momentary loss of connectivity as the new changes are applied and routes reconverge

Advanced VPN Management Maintenance
Description of change: OIT Will be performing maintenance on the management server for the Advanced VPN on Saturday September 28th. During this time newly installed client installations during the maintenance may be unable to receive configuration changes, however existing clients should be able to connect to the VPN without issue.
Downtime window start: 09/28/2024 12:00 PM
Downtime window end: 09/28/2024 7:00 PM
Affected services: Advanced VPN configuration updates
End-user impact: Users installing the Advanced VPN client during the maintenance may not receive configuration from the management servers until after the maintenance. Users with the Advanced VPN client installed should be able to connect to the VPN normally during the maintenance.

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[RESOLVED] VPN Services Outage

The main FAU VPN service has been restored to normal operation

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OIT System Maintenance

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 9/17/2024 – 9/21/2024 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Server maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing server maintenance on 9-18 at 11:00pm-12:00am affecting Sunapsis.
Downtime window start: 09/18/2024 11:00 PM
Downtime window end: 09/19/2024 12:00 AM
Affected services: Sunapsis
End-user impact: Sunapsis will be unavailable during this time.

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing server maintenance on 9-18 at 11:00pm-12:00am affecting Assessment, Crosswalk, Grademan, Software license order page, Techfee, and Transient.
Downtime window start: 09/18/2024 11:00 PM
Downtime window end: 09/18/2024 11:30 PM
Affected services: Assessment, Crosswalk, Grademan, Software license order page, Techfee, and Transient
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected since these are incremental security updates.

Server Migration
Description of change: OIT will be migrating several virtual machines to new hardware.
Downtime window start: 09/19/2024 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/19/2024 6:00 AM
Affected services: DHCP, Internal DNS, Tatooine (EDUROAM RADIUS Server), Grouper2 (Group Management App Server)
End-user impact: The impacted services will be unavailable during the window, however no end-user impact is expected as these are secondary servers.

Network Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing network maintenance affecting all campuses from 12:00 a.m. until 3:00 a.m. on Saturday September 21st. During this time, all FAU campuses will experience short outages impacting connectivity to services and the internet.
Downtime window start: 09/21/2024 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/21/2024 3:00 AM
Affected services: All services will be impacted briefly. Some services that do not handle network disruptions may need to be restarted.
End-user impact: All campuses will experience brief outages during the maintenance window affecting connectivity to all services

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[RESOLVED]AT&T users may experience issues accessing Single Sign On and Office 365

Microsoft has confirmed an outage which is impacting AT&T users. If connected to AT&T, you may experience issues accessing FAU sites that use Single Sign-On, or any Microsoft Office 365 application.

We will post updates as they are available.

OIT

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OIT Systems Maintenance

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 between 9/10/2024 and 9/13/2024 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

BHRIC VMware server updates
Description of change: Research computing will be performing maintenance on https://vdi.fau.edu
Downtime window start: 09/10/2024 9:00 PM
Downtime window end: 09/10/2024 11:00 PM
Affected services: VDI
End-user impact: During this time, VDI environment will be offline. This would impact users needing to use the BHRIC VMware environment.

Wireless certificate update
Description of change: OIT will be renewing the certificates used for Wireless on September 10th. As a result of this change, users may be prompted to accept a new certificate when they access FAUWPA2 or Eduroam for the first time following the certificate renewal.
Downtime window start: 09/10/2024 10:00 PM
Downtime window end: 09/10/2024 10:30 PM
Affected services: Eduroam and FAUWPA2
End-user impact: This will affect all campuses where wireless is available. Users will be prompted to accept the new certificate.

Duo Notification Changes
Description of change: OIT will be activating additional notifications for Duo. These notifications will send additional information to users whenever the Duo settings are updated or changed.
Downtime window start: 09/11/2024 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/11/2024 7:30 AM
Affected services: DUO MFA
End-user impact: Most of these changes will have no expected end-user impact. However, the changes to notification settings will cause users to receive new communications if their Duo devices are changed or modified in the portal.

BHRIC Server maintenance
Description of change: Research Computing will be performing maintenance on the BHRIC server
Downtime window start: 09/11/2024 9:00 PM
Downtime window end: 09/12/2024 6:00 AM
Affected services: BHRIC VMWare, https://vdi.fau.edu BHRIC fileshares
End-user impact: There should be very minimal end user impact, however, I/O could be slow.

Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on Banner from 12:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on Thursday 1st August. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install the updates.
Downtime window start: 09/12/2024 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/12/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner Admin, Self-Service, Registration
End-user impact: All end users of Banner will be impacted.

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be doing maintenance on Thursday, September 12th. There should be no user impact.
Downtime window start: 09/12/2024 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/12/2024 1:00 AM
Affected services: Any service running on Kubernetes. There should be no end user impact as there are two other control planes for potential failover.
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.

Update to Canvas Tools
Description of change: OIT will be performing updates to the following Canvas Tools which will include some style changes to match other University site as well as some performance improvements and bug fixes: User Management, Course Management, Observer Management. We will also be installing one new Application, Course Links, that will give us the ability to put external links in Course menus upon request.
Downtime window start: 09/12/2024 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/12/2024 6:00 AM
Affected services: No other services will be impacted except the ones that are being updated.
End-user impact: Each application will be unavailable momentarily as the files are being updated.

EZ Advising – Adding new logic for college of science
Description of change: OIT is implementing new logic in EZ Advising to direct students with specific attributes to the appropriate college advising services.
Downtime window start: 09/12/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/12/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: EZ Advising
End-user impact: Students

Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on Banner from 12:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on August 2nd. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install the updates.
Downtime window start: 09/13/2024 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/13/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner Admin, Self-Service, Registration
End-user impact: All end users of Banner will be impacted.

Adding new queue in EZ Advising for Transfer Students
Description of change: OIT will be adding a queue in EZ Advising for capturing form submitted by Transfer and Early admit students.
Downtime window start: 09/13/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/13/2024 9:00 AM
Affected services: EZ Advising
End-user impact: Students

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OIT Systems Maintenance

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, 07/11 and Saturday, 7/13/2024 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Data Center Storage Maintenance (Netapp Production Cluster)
Description of change: OIT is performing maintenance on the Netapp Production Cluster to prepare for upgrades.
Downtime window start: 07/11/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 07/11/2024 6:30 AM
Affected services: Work is only being performed on one of the two redundant switches, so no downtime is expected but there is a potential to affect all services dependent on NetApp storage, including major ones, such as: Banner, Oracle Identity Manager (OIM), Andi Shares, Ibiweb, MSSQL databases and services dependent on those, Network Registration, Grouper, Owlapps, Edocs, and Papercut to name a few.
End-user impact: End-user impact is not expected. However, if any issues occur during maintenance, services may be impacted.

PeopleFirst Integration Update
Description of change: OIT is making changes to the PeopleFirst integration update to resolve reported issue (Hospitalization deductions were taken multiple times)
Downtime window start: 07/11/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 07/11/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Workday will be updated.
End-user impact: Staff

Slate Decision Codes and Attributes Crosswalks For Decisioning in Banner
Description of change: OIT have created a process to load attributes or contact types in the process of decision posting from Slate to Banner.
Downtime window start: 07/11/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 07/11/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: Students

Database Server Change
Description of change: This multiphase efforts to reestablish dataguard. In this phase OIT will make configuration changes and restart the portion of the application.
Downtime window start: 07/11/2024 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 07/11/2024 6:00 AM
Affected services: University frevvo forms application.
End-user impact: All Students and Staff

VPN Management Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on the Advanced VPN infrastructure from 10:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Saturday July 13th. During this time, there may be periods of time where newly installed Advanced VPN clients may be unable to obtain configuration. This maintenance should not affect the use of Advanced or Basic VPN.
Downtime window start: 07/13/2024 10:00 AM
Downtime window end: 07/13/2024 8:00 PM
Affected services: Advanced VPN
End-user impact: We anticipate inimal end user impact limited to any user that installs the advanced VPN client for the first time. There will be a period of time during the maintenance where new clients will be unable to get a license or a configuration file. Existing clients will work while the server is under maintenance.

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OIT Systems Maintenance – June 26-29 from 12:01AM TO 7:00AM

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 from 6/26-6/29 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

BHRIC storage maintenance
Description of change: Research Computing will be performing maintenance on the SAN for BHRIC. During this time there is no expected user impact. However, https://vdi.fau.edu, servers on https://health-vcenter , REDCAP may experience some slowness while the updates are running.
Downtime window start: 06/26/2024 9:00 PM
Downtime window end: 06/27/2024 5:00 AM
Affected services: All services that run in BHRIC. This includes https://vdi.fau.edu, SHS servers, EDU servers, file shares form \health.ad.fau.edu\bhric and boc22-nas2.health.ad.fau.edu
End-user impact: No expected impact from the update. However, there may be some slowness on the BHRIC Servers during this time.

Non-Degree Acceptance Email Update
Description of change: OIT is fixing grammatical errors in the Non-email Acceptance Email.
Downtime window start: 06/27/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/27/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: myFAU
End-user impact: No end user impact is expected. These changes are fixing a grammatical error in an email that gets sent to students.

App status error for foreign High School records
Description of change: An error was reported for a student with foreign high school record. This change is to fix the reported error.
Downtime window start: 06/27/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/27/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: FAU App
End-user impact: Students – Admissions Applications. Services should still be operational

VPN Management Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on the Advanced VPN infrastructure from 12:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Saturday June 29th. During this time, there may be periods of time where newly installed Advanced VPN clients may be unable to obtain configuration. This maintenance should not affect the use of Advanced VPN.
Downtime window start: 06/29/2024 12:00 PM
Downtime window end: 06/29/2024 8:00 PM
Affected services: Advanced VPN configuration and licensing will be unavailable during periods of time
End-user impact: We anticipate minimal end user impact limited to any user that installs the advanced VPN client for the first time. There will be a period of time during the maintenance where new clients will be unable to get a license or a configuration file. Existing clients will work while the server is under maintenance.

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Email Delivery Delays

We are experiencing some delays in email delivery and are working to resolve them.

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