OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Nov 10 from 12:00AM 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 on Thursday, 11/10/2022 from 12:00 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 perform maintenance on the Kubernetes Management service.
Downtime window start: 12:00AM
Downtime window end: 12:30AM
Affected services: Network Registration, PrivateEye, College of Businesss application
End-user impact: This change could affect load balancing and certs for network registration, privateeye, and College of Business application.

Move Video Conferencing servers
Description of change: OIT will be moving several systems supporting video conferencing to different hardware
Downtime window start: 3:00AM
Downtime window end: 7:00AM
Affected services: Video Conferencing
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected with this change.

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the components of several systems to resolve bugs and add support for newer hardware.
Downtime window start: 6:00AM
Downtime window end: 7:00AM
Affected services: All FAU Services
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.

Server upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading a development Database server
Downtime window start: 6:00AM
Downtime window end: 7:00AM
Affected services: This will not impact any services in production database servers.
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.

Office365 Email Configuration Changes
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on the Office365 email system. No impact to email sending or delivery is expected.
Downtime window start: 6:30AM
Downtime window end: 7:00AM
Affected services: Office365 email
End-user impact:No impact to email sending or delivery is expected.

Posted in Email, Systems, Uncategorized, Video Conferencing

[RESOLVED] Registration website unavailable

UPDATE: The issue has been resolved and the registration website is available again.

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The Registration website is currently unavailable. OIT is investigating and working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Please check back shortly for an update.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.

OIT

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Educational Technologies, Instructional Technologies, Systems, Uncategorized

[RESOLVED]Account Activations and Password resets unavailable

We are currently investigating issues with password resets and account activations.

We apologize for the inconvenience and will update this status as soon as possible.

OIT

Posted in Email, Systems, Uncategorized

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Nov 3 from 12:00AM 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 on Thursday, 11/03/2022 from 12:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) Database View Update
Description of change: An Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) database view and related program will be modified for the Google to Microsoft migration project. Adding functionality to track changes for students in multiple areas in Banner.
Downtime window start: 11/03/2022 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/03/2022 6:00 AM
Affected services:
End-user impact: No downtime or user interruptions are expected.

Server updates
Description of change: OIT will apply updates to servers that host GradeMan, ServiceAwards, SoftLic,TechFee
Downtime window start: 11/03/2022 12:00 AM
Downtime window end:11/03/2022 3:00 AM
Affected services: GradeMan, ServiceAwards, SoftLic,TechFee
End-user impact: The services listed above will be offline while updates are being applied.

REDCap Update
Description of change: OIT will apply updates to REDCap
Downtime window start: 11/03/2022 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/28/2022 1:00 AM
Affected services: REDCap
End-user impact: REDCap service will be offline during update.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Research Computing, Systems

[Resolved] Mass SMS Texts are being delayed or not sent

We are currently experiencing issues with the Mogli texting tool used with Salesforce. Mass texting request have been paused for the moment as we investigate.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Educational Technologies, Email, Systems, Uncategorized

Addition of Google Workspace Quota Login Prompt

Starting at 4 pm October 14th, 2022 users who are using more than 5GB in Google Workspace will receive a notification upon login to all SSO services. This prompt will continue until they decrease their Google Workspace usage. Please be aware that it may take up to 48 hours for Google correctly report usage to OIT so please be patient after cleaning up your account. More information may be located at the Google Workspace site. https://www.fau.edu/oit/google.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Educational Technologies, Email, Instructional Technologies, Research Computing, Systems, Workday

Google Workspace idle account suspension

OIT will be suspending inactive Alumni accounts (those not used for +180 days) at 8 am Thursday, October 13th.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Email, Research Computing, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Oct 6 from 12:00AM 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 on Thursday, 10/06/2022 from 12:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

REDCap Update
Description of change: REDCap will be offline while the Office of Information Technology performs routine maintenance.
Downtime window start: 10/06/2022 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/06/2022 1:00 AM
Affected services: RedCap
End-user impact: Service will be offline for everyone during update.

Server Maintenance Aptitude Remote Service
Description of change: The Office of Information Technology will be performing maintenance on a remote server used by the Aptitude team and other OIT users.
Downtime window start: 10/06/2022 8:00 PM
Downtime window end: 10/06/2022 9:00 PM
Affected services: Aptitude Remote Service
End-user impact: Aptitude and users from IEA that use this server to RDP to other servers.

Posted in Research Computing, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Sept 29 from 3:00AM 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 on Thursday, 09/29/2022 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Disallow personal devices from being managed by FAU’s Microsoft tenant
Description of change: OIT will be disabling the feature that allows personal devices to be joined to FAU’s Microsoft Azure AD.
Downtime window start: 09/29/2022 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/29/2022 6:00 AM
Affected services: Personal devices
End-user impact: End users will no longer be able to join their personal devices to Azure AD

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing server maintenance on Banner. During this time, access to the job scheduling system may be unavailable.
Downtime window start: 09/29/2022 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/29/2022 7:00 AM
Affected services: Appworx
End-user impact: Appworx will be unavailable during the upgrade.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems

[RESOLVED] System Outage – Help Desk Ticketing

***UPDATE*****

The help desk ticketing system is back online. The vendor is monitoring the system to make sure it is stable.

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We are currently experiencing issues with our help desk ticketing system. We have contacted our vendor and they are investigating the issue.

Posted in Systems