Maintenance to the University firewalls is scheduled for Tuesday 9/3/2012 from 1:00AM to 7:00AM. Loss of connectivity to the Banner systems and their peripherals including AppWorx may occur during this time.

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, 08/23/2012 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When: 3:00AM to 4:00AM
Affected services: Blackboard
Affected systems:  Blackboard
Description of maintenance:  Apply emergency patch to remedy courses with a large content area to throw an array index out of bound exception and making the course unable to be used.  The secondary patch is for a search query optimization
User impact: Blackboard will not be available between 3:00AM and 4:00AM

When: 8/23/2012 5:00 AM – 5:30 AM
Affected Services: irm.ad.fau.edu and ad.fau.edu boca domain controllers
Affected Systems: bocdcirm01, bocdcirm02, bocdcfau02
Description of Maintenance: A patch that will be installed to correct a problem with the KMS service not accepting a Server 2012 and Windows 8 volume license.
User impact: None expected, staggered reboots, unless a user tries to authenticate on during a reboot of each server.

The Banner General 8.5.1 & Web General 8.5.0/8.5.1 upgrades have been rescheduled for Tuesday 8/28/2012 from 3:00am to 7:00am.

The wired and wireless networks in the student dorms are now working properly.

Thank you

—–Original Message—– Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 4:04 PM

OIT Status has posted a new item, ‘Network:Village Apartments wireless issue’

The village apartments are experiencing a wireless network problem. We are working to resolve the issue.

You may view the latest post at http://wordpress.fau.edu/irm/2012/08/networkvillage-apartments-wireless-issue/

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Best regards, OIT Status

Blackboard is once again available. We apologize once again for any inconvenience.

Users may experience intermittent login issues when trying to access Blackboard. We’re working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and apologize for the inconvenience.

We are currently experiencing authentication issues with Echo360. We are working to resolve these issues and expect to have Echo360 back up and running within 30 minutes.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

OIT

Our BIGip load balancer encountered some problems.  Working on fix.    Blackboard, Myfau, Banner logins may be affected.   We apologize for the inconvenience.

A patch will be applied to Banner production tomorrow morning, 7/26/2012 (originally scheduled for 7/19/2012). When logging into INB for the first time tomorrow, a pop-up window will appear requesting you to accept the new Ellucian certificate. Please select the “always trust” check box.

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