OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 22 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, 02/22/2024 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on Banner from 1am. until 7:00 a.m. on February 22nd. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install the updates.
Downtime window start: 02/22/2024 1:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/22/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner Admin, Self Service
End-user impact: Banner will be unavailable during this time. All end users of Banner will be impacted.

Server change
Description of change: OIT will be updating the Banner test environments
Downtime window start: 02/22/2024 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/22/2024 5:30 AM
Affected services: Banner test environments: DEVL, TEST
End-user impact: Banner test environments will be unavailable during this time.

Research Computing Health Frevvo Maintenance
Description of change: Research Computing will be performing system maintenance of the Health Frevvo file connector. During this time saving forms to \health.ad.fau.edu will be offline
Downtime window start: 02/22/2024 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/22/2024 9:00 AM
Affected services: Frevvo file connector
End-user impact: During this time users will not be able to save forms to this file location

Upgrade data center switch
Description of change: Networking will be upgrading a switch in building 96.
Downtime window start: 02/23/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/23/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Services running on Hyper V stack in bld 96
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

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

OIT Systems Maintenance, Wed, Feb. 14 and Thurs. Feb 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 Wednesday, Feb. 14 and Thursday, Feb. 15 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on Banner from 12:01 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on February 14th. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install the updates.
Downtime window start: 02/14/2024 12:01 AM
Downtime window end: 02/14/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner Admin, Self-service
End-user impact: Banner will be unavailable during this time.

Update EDR Scan Settings
Description of change: OIT will be making adjustments to the EDR scan settings to improve performance for some users on Wednesday February 14th. End user impact is not expected.
Downtime window start: 02/14/2024 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/14/2024 9:00 AM
Affected services: No services will be impacted by this change
End-user impact: No end user impact is expected. This change will disable automated full scans of Microsoft Defender which should improve performance on machines that are often shut down overnight such as laptops.

Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on Banner from 12 midnight. until 7:00 a.m. on February 15th. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install the updates.
Downtime window start: 02/15/2024 12:01 AM
Downtime window end: 02/15/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner Admin, Self-service
End-user impact: Banner will be unavailable during this time. All end users of Banner will be impacted.

Server migration OwlAdminPages, OwlKPIs, ProgramsAdmin
Description of change: The following services will be migrated to a new host OwlAdminPages, OwlKPIs, ProgramsAdmin
Downtime window start: 02/15/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/15/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: OwlAdminPages, OwlKPIs, ProgramsAdmin
End-user impact: Faculty, Staff, Students

Adding Compliance Text Verbiage in UG App, Personal Info and Owldone
Description of change: OIT is adding a text to Personal Info, Owldone and UG App to collect consent from the students to communicate via SMS.
Downtime window start: 02/15/2024 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/15/2024 5:00 PM
Affected services: Personal Info, Owldone, UG App
End-user impact: Students

Displaying All Awarded Data on eTranscript
Description of change: OIT is updating the eTranscript template to view awarded data such as 2nd major.
Downtime window start: 02/15/2024 9:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/15/2024 10:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: Students

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 8 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, 02/08/2024 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on Banner from 1:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on February 8th. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install the updates.
Downtime window start: 02/08/2024 1:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/08/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Self-Service, Banner Admin
End-user impact: Banner and any services relying on Banner will unavailable during this time.

Banner Database Change
Description of change: OIT will be performing some parameter changes in the Banner Production Database
Downtime window start: 02/08/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/08/2024 6:30 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: Banner and any services relying on Banner will unavailable during this time.

Server Move
Description of change: OIT will be moving an authentication system to a different location
Downtime window start: 02/08/2024 6:30 AM
Downtime window end: 02/08/2024 6:45 AM
Affected services: Active Directory
End-user impact: No end-user impact expected during this time

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems, Uncategorized

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 1, 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, 02/01/2024 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Server network migration
Description of change: OIT will be making network changes to servers which will impact their availability
Downtime window start: 02/01/2024 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/01/2024 6:00 AM
Affected services: Most services will be impacted by this changes for a brief moment
End-user impact: Any service may become unavailable for short periods of time during the window

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will make some configuration changes to user account information servers (LDAP) to accommodate new projects.
Downtime window start:02/01/2024 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 02/01/2024 6:00 AM
Affected services: Applications that rely on the OUD (Oracle Unified Directory) LDAP servers for authentication or information.
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.

Posted in Network and Telecom, Systems

[RESOLVED] Microsoft Teams Service Degradation

Microsoft is currently experiencing degraded performance issues with Microsoft Teams. This will impact sending and receiving Teams messages as well as logging in to Teams.

Updates will be posted as they become available from Microsoft.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.

Posted in Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Jan 25 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, 01/25/2024 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

VPN Client Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be making a configuration change to advanced VPN clients to prevent an authentication issue with newer client builds. We will also be pushing out client upgrades.
Downtime window start: 01/25/2024 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 01/25/2024 8:05 AM
Affected services: Advanced VPN clients
End-user impact: Users of the advanced VPN client will perform SSO authentication using their default browser instead of the FortiClient built-in browser.
Windows advanced client users will also be prompted to reboot their computer for a client upgrade. Mac users will be prompted for an upgrade but not required to reboot.

SMS Compliance
Description of change: We are incorporating language in the Native App, Banner, GradCas, and Owldone to obtain consent from students regarding SMS messages. This is to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
Downtime window start: 01/25/2024 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 01/25/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Native App, Banner, GradCas, and Owldone
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this time.

Admissions Application Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be performing an upgrade to the Graduate Admissions Applications
Downtime window start: 01/25/2024 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 01/25/2024 7:05 AM
Affected services: College of Business Graduate Admissions Application, Study Group Admissions Application
End-user impact: The application will be offline for a few minutes at 7 am

BHRIC Server Maintenance (SHS SQL Server)
Description of change: OIT will migrate the SHS SQL server to a new environment. This impacts SHS and CAPS using the software Clockwork.
Downtime window start: 01/26/2024 9:00 PM
Downtime window end: 01/28/2024 9:00 PM
Affected services: Clockwork (Scheduling App)
End-user impact: During this time programs that write to this database will be offline.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Research Computing, Systems

[RESOLVED]Account Self-Service partially unavailable

Currently new account activations and “Forgot your Password” options are unavailable. We are currently investigating and working to resolve as soon as possible.

OIT

Posted in Systems, Uncategorized

[RESOLVED]Account Self-Service is unavailable

Account Self-Service for account activation and resetting your password is currently unavailable. We are investigating and will post updates as we have available.

OIT

Posted in Systems, Uncategorized

OIT Systems Maintenance, Wednesday, Dec 6 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 Wednesday, 12/06/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Graduate College Admissions Application Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the Graduate College Admissions Application.
Downtime window start: 12/06/2023 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12/06/2023 6:30 AM
Affected services: College of Business, and Study group Application
End-user impact: During the upgrade process the College of Business, and Study group application will be unavailable.

Posted in Systems, Uncategorized

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Nov 30 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, 11/30/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Sunapsis Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing Sunapsis system maintenance. During this time, Sunapsis will be offline.
Downtime window start: 11/29/2023 10:00 PM
Downtime window end: 11/30/2023 12:00 AM
Affected services: Sunapsis
End-user impact: This maintenance only impacts IEI Staff.

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing server Maintenance affecting TechFee, Gradrates, GradeMan, ServiceAwards, SoftLic, transient, and wconline
Downtime window start: 11/30/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/30/2023 1:00 AM
Affected services: TechFee, Gradrates, GradeMan, ServiceAwards, SoftLic, transient, wconline
End-user impact: The services mentioned above will be offline during this time.

Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on Banner. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install several module upgrades/patches/administrative pages to bring FAU up to compliance with the latest Financial Aid releases.
Downtime window start: 11/30/2023 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/30/2023 6:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: Banner will be unavailable during this time.

Data Transfer Node Upgrades
Description of change: OIT will be adjusting default settings on the Research Computing Data Transfer Nodes
Downtime window start: 11/30/2023 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/30/2023 6:00 AM
Affected services: koko-dtn which provides smb connectivity to the HPC cluster.
End-user impact: OIT will be reloading SMB on the servers in question which will in theory allow existing connections to continue.

Banner AppNav Maintenance
Description of change: The Banner AppNav that is used for the Banner Admin application will be upgraded, and the current server will be decommissioned.
Downtime window start: 11/30/2023 6:30 AM
Downtime window end: 11/30/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner admin might not be accessible while the switch happens, or current sessions might disconnect.
End-user impact: Staff will not be able to login to Banner Admin while the change takes place, current sessions might also be impacted.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Research Computing, Systems