OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. July 22 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, 07/22/2021 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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Server Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading print services on the Jupiter campus from server 2016 to server 2019.
Downtime window start: 7/22/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7/22/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: Print services on the Jupiter campus.​
Expected End-user impact: Printing will be unavailable during this time

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Server Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be performing upgrades to its authentication servers.​
Downtime window start: 7/22/2021 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7/22/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: ​​Active Directory
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

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Server Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading a mail server.​
Downtime window start: 7/22/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7/22/2021 4:00 AM
Affected services: ​Qualtrics
Expected End-user impact: ​Users will not be able to send emails through flashgordon during the window.

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Posted in Email, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. July 15 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 on Thursday, 07/15/2021 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

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Network Services Maintenance
Description of change: ​OIT will be performing maintenance on some network services on July 15th at 12:00 a.m. There is no end-user impact anticipated
Downtime window start: 7/15/2021 12:01 AM
Downtime window end: 7/15/2021 12:30 AM
Affected services: DNS queries for users using on-campus DNS servers​
Expected End-user impact: ​There is no expected end-user impact

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AppWorx Upgrade
Description of change: ​The AppWorx automation application will be upgraded to a new version.
Downtime window start: 7/15/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7/15/2021 6:00 AM
Affected services: Appworx
Expected End-user impact: There is no expected end-user impact

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Server Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be performing upgrades to its authentication servers.​
Downtime window start: 7/15/2021 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7/15/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: ​Active Directory (irm.ad.fau.edu)
Expected End-user impact: There is no expected end-user impact

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Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be making some configuration changes to OnBase for better usability.​
Downtime window start: 7/15/2021 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7/15/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: ​OnBase
Expected End-user impact: There is no expected end-user impact.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Network and Telecom, Systems

OIT systems Maintenance, Thurs. July 8 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, 07/08/2021 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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Wireless Network Enhancements
Description of change: OIT will upgrade the software and certificate on the wireless controllers to enhance the end user experience.
Downtime window start: 7/8/2021 11:00 PM
Downtime window end: 7/9/2021 2:00 AM
Affected services: Wireless network
​Expected End-user impact: There will be a brief outage of access to wireless networks during the upgrade.

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Enhance security for OIT managed fileserver
Description of change: ​The storage supporting fauandi1 will be encrypted
Downtime window start: 7/8/2021 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7/8/2021 6:05 AM
Affected services: all shares on fauandi1
Expected End-user impact: There is no expected end-user impact.

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Posted in Network and Telecom, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. July 1 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, 07/01/2021 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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Voice Server Maintenance
Description of change: ​OIT will be performing maintenance on the voice servers between 9:00 PM on June 30th to 2:00 AM July 1st. Phones may have brief connectivity issues.
Downtime window start 6/30/2021 9:00 PM
Downtime window end 7/1/2021 12:00 AM
Affected services: Cisco phones
Expected End-user impact: ​Cisco Phones will experience a brief 30 second outage during the maintenance window.

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Server Maintenance
Description of change: ​OIT will be performing maintenance on its spam filters on July 1st between 3am and 4am. Mail delivery may be impacted during this window.
Downtime window start 7/1/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 7/1/2021 4:00 AM
Affected services: Inbound email for fau.edu, outbound email via smtp.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: ​Sending email using smtp.fau.edu during the maintenance window may fail.

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AppWorx Upgrade
Description of change: ​The AppWorx automation application will be upgraded from version 9.1.3 to version 9.3.5.
Downtime window start 7/1/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 7/1/2021 6:00 AM
Affected services: None expected since this is being done during our maintenance window.
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Email, Network and Telecom, Systems

Brief Network Maintenance Affecting SSO Tonight (June 29th at 12:00 a.m.)

OIT will be performing brief network maintenance tonight at midnight (June 29th at 12:00a.m.) that may affect SSO logins. These logins may be briefly unavailable or slow for a few minutes during the maintenance. If issues are encountered, please try again in a couple of minutes.

Posted in Systems

[Resolved] Apps.fau.edu intermittent logon issues on 6/28/21 from 11AM-12PM

Citrix will be troubleshooting connectivity issues within the remote apps environment (apps.fau.edu) between 11AM and 12PM today. While we work to isolate the issue, users may experience occasional logon issues while using the apps.fau.edu web portal, or the Citrix Workspace app.

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[Resolved] Apps.fau.edu intermittent connectivity issues on 6/25/21 from 11AM-1PM

Citrix will be troubleshooting connectivity issues within the remote apps environment. While we work to isolate the issue, users may experience logon issues while using the apps.fau.edu web portal or the Citrix app.

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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. June 24 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, 06/24/2021 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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Storage Maintenance
Description of change: ​OIT will be performing maintenance on some backend storage. No end user impact is anticipated.
Downtime window start: 6/24/2021 3:30 AM
Downtime window end: 6/24/2021 6:30 AM
Affected services: ​No downtime is expected but there is a potential to affect:
All services dependent on NetApp storage
all VM’s on Hyper-V, all VM’s on Vmware. VM hosts may see a pause in data transfer while a node is failing over and back
Some of the major services, but not limited to are:
Banner, OIM, Andi Shares, Ibiweb, MSSQL databases and services dependent on those, Network Registration, Grouper, Owlapps, Edocs, Papercut
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

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Update Forms Server User Accounts
Description of change: OIT will be updating the notification preferences for a number of user accounts in Frevvo.
Downtime window start: 6/24/2021 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6/24/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: Some forms server accounts will be modified. There is no anticipated interruption of service.
Expected End-user impact: No end user impact is expected during this time. After the change, a number of users will have their notification preferences updated

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Posted in Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. June 17 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, 06/17/2021 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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Redcap BugFix Upgrade
Description of change: Research Computing will be upgrading Redcap to the latest long term release. This update fixes one major bug and several minor bugs the correct issues cloning and summarizing projects.
Downtime window start: 6/17/2021 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6/17/2021 6:05 AM
Affected services: Redcap​
Expected End-user impact: During this time, Redcap will go offline for a few seconds. Users will receive a warning message stating that Redcap is offline.

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Posted in Research Computing, Systems

[NETWORK MAINTENANCE] Jupiter and Boca Raton – Saturday June 5th from 12:00 a.m. until 3:00 a.m.

OIT will be performing maintenance on core network equipment on the Boca Raton and Jupiter campuses on Saturday June 5th from 12:00 a.m. until 3:00 a.m. During this time there will be a series of momentary disruptions to network traffic on the Jupiter and Boca Raton campuses. Connectivity to and from the internet as well as connectivity to campus network resources will be impacted during this maintenance window.

Posted in Network and Telecom, Systems