OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. July 20 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, 07/20/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Change Office 365 Email Protection Settings
Description of change: OIT Security will be making a change to increase the security of Office 365 email. If you have any issues with receiving email please open a ticket with either OIT Security or OIT Systems.
Downtime window start: 07/20/2023 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 07/20/2023 8:05 AM
Affected services: Office 365 Exchange email
End-user impact: Emails with a spam confidence level (SCL) of 8 or 9 will be quarantined instead of delivered to the junk folder. If you suspect an legitimate email has been quarantined, please contact the OIT Help Desk or submit a helpdesk ticket.

Server updates
Description of change: OIT will update servers to the latest update.
Downtime window start: 07/20/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 07/20/2023 3:00 AM
Affected services: Assessment, Crosswalk, GradeMan, gradrates, ServiceAwards, SoftLic, TechFee, wconline
End-user impact: Services listed will not be available during this time.

Server migration
Description of change: OIT will be migrating several systems to new hardware
Downtime window start: 07/20/2023 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 07/20/2023 4:00 AM
Affected services: DNS, DHCP, SSO, Networking config backup server
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

REDCap Update
Description of change: This is a routine REDCap update. Will be offline during update.
Downtime window start: 07/20/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 07/20/2023 2:00 AM
Affected services: REDCap
End-user impact: Service will be offline during update.

Posted in Email, Research Computing, Systems

[RESOLVED] Issues logging into uAchieve and Office Apps

We have identified and resolved these issues. Login to uAchieve and Office Apps has been resolved.

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After our single sign on upgrade we have identified that users are receiving Access Denied when trying to access uachieve. We also have identified that logging into Office apps on Windows for the first time is giving a white screen. We recommend logging into Office apps via the web until we update this status.

The issue with logging into the library information systems has been resolved.

We are currently debugging and will update this post as we have a status.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

OIT

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

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. June 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 on Thursday, 06/29/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Data Center Storage Upgrade (Netapp Snapvault Cluster)
Description of change: OIT is performing software upgrades to the Netapp Snapvault Cluster
Downtime window start: 06/28/2023 10:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/28/2023 5:00 PM
Affected services: Snapvault functionality for Netapp volumes
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected. This is a backend netapp cluster for backup purposes

BHRIC VMWare Maintenance
Description of change: Research Computing is performing maintenance on the BHRIC VMware vcenter
Downtime window start: 06/29/2023 12:05 AM
Downtime window end: 06/29/2023 3:00 AM
Affected services: Bhric VMWare vcenter
End-user impact: During this time, end users will not be impacted. However, vm’s can not be rebuilt, recomposed, or updated during the update as vcenter will be offline

CM22 Network Topology Changes
Description of change: OIT will be implementing network topology changes affecting the Building 22 subnet. While the change should have minimal impact to normal operations on the desktops in building 22, we will communicate to users via oit-l to communicate the change and expectations.
Downtime window start: 06/29/2023 6:30 AM
Downtime window end: 06/29/2023 6:59 AM
Affected services: Building 22 desktop network
End-user impact: Users of the desktop subnet in CM22 will have a brief period of network disruption during the change. After the maintenance, there may be some access to other desktop networks in other buildings that may not work as expected, but security staff will be able to address as any problems are reported

OIM Display Correct HIPAA Flag For Grads
Description of change: Change SQL code used by OIM so graduates with multiple records properly retain hipaa flag for 90 days after graduation.
Downtime window start: 06/29/2023 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/29/2023 10:00 AM
Affected services: OIM
End-user impact: No end-user impact

Data Center Storage Upgrade (Netapp Disaster Recovery Cluster)
Description of change: OIT is performing software upgrades to the Netapp Disaster Recovery Cluster
Downtime window start: 06/29/2023 10:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/29/2023 5:00 PM
Affected services: Disaster recovery snapshot functionality for Netapp volumes
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected. This is the DR netapp cluster for disaster recovery purposes

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Research Computing, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. June 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, 06/22/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

System Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading SCCM.
Downtime window start: 06/22/2023 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/22/2023 6:00 AM
Affected services: All SCCM-related services will be impacted during the upgrade including windows updates, monitoring, software deployment, and OS imaging.
End-user impact: SCCM will be intermittently unavailable during the upgrade process.

Moving gitlab.hpc.fau.edu to new infrastructure
Description of change: OIT Research Computing team will be performing maintenance on the gitlab.hpc.fau.edu service.
Downtime window start: 06/22/2023 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/22/2023 8:00 AM
Affected services: gitlab.hpc.fau.edu
End-user impact: Gitlab will be offline during the backup and restore process as we move the information from one machine to another.

Enable logging feature on authentication systems
Description of change: OIT will be enabling a new feature on some systems that provide authentication service.
Downtime window start: 06/22/2023 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/22/2023 7:05 AM
Affected services: Active Directory
End-user impact: No end-user impact expected

Update code in Identity Management for graduates with @health accounts.
Description of change: Change SQL code used by OIM so graduates with multiple records properly retain hipaa flag for 90 days after graduation.
Downtime window start: 06/22/2023 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/22/2023 10:00 AM
Affected services: Identity Management (OIM)
End-user impact: Graduating students with @health email account.

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

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. June 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, 06/15/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Load balancer rotation
Description of change: OIT will be changing the active load balancer.
Downtime window start: 06/15/2023 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/15/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: Any websites behind the load balancers.
Main fau website, banner.fau.edu, links, lmsapps, talon, owlres, egrades, papercut, myowl, appstatus and more.
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.

Enable logging feature on authentication systems
Description of change: OIT will be enabling a new feature on some systems that provide authentication service.
Downtime window start: 06/15/2023 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/15/2023 7:10 AM
Affected services: Active Directory
End-user impact: No end-user impact expected

Decommission system utilized by College IT
Description of change: OIT will be retiring a server utilized by College IT for management work
Downtime window start: 06/15/2023 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/15/2023 7:10 AM
Affected services: remotecon
End-user impact: remotecon will no longer be available for use. College IT will be instructed to use adcon as a replacement

Enable 2factor authentication for system utilized by IT staff
Description of change: OIT will be enabling 2factor auth for a system utilized by IT staff
Downtime window start: 06/15/2023 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/15/2023 7:10 AM
Affected services: adcon
End-user impact: IT staff will need to use DUO when using Remote Desktop to adcon

Course Entry Quiz: Enrollment modification
Description of change: OIT will make modifications to the Course Entry Quiz
Downtime window start: 06/15/2023 5:00 PM
Downtime window end: 06/15/2023 6:00 PM
Affected services: Course Entry Quiz
End-user impact: Students who have last attendance date in the system will not be required to take the quiz.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems, Uncategorized

OIT System Maintenance, Thurs. June 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, 06/08/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Endpoint Security Change
Description of change: OIT will be implementing new safeguards for all endpoints.
Downtime window start: 06/08/2023 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/08/2023 8:00 AM
Affected services: Domain joined Desktops and Laptops
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.

Configuration change for authentication system
Description of change: OIT will be making a configuration change to the systems that provide Windows authentication.
Downtime window start: 06/08/2023 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/08/2023 5:05 AM
Affected services: Windows authentication
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.

BHRIC Domain Controller Maintenance
Description of change: Research Computing will be performing maintenance on the health.ad.fau.edu domain controllers.
Downtime window start: 06/08/2023 12:05 AM
Downtime window end: 06/08/2023 1:00 AM
Affected services: health domain
End-user impact: There should not be any impact to the end users during this change

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will renew certs
Downtime window start: 06/08/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/08/2023 4:00 AM
Affected services: Any SSO Service
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.

Adding monitors to Global Traffic Manager
Description of change: OIT will be adding new monitors to the global traffic manager to make apps on certain clusters be more failover friendly.
Downtime window start: 06/08/2023 6:15 AM
Downtime window end: 06/08/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: Services on the k8s cluster that are on the GTMs
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected as no monitors will be removed until the new one returns green.

Load balancer rotation
Description of change: OIT will be changing the active load balancer.
Downtime window start: 06/08/2023 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/08/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: Any websites behind the load balancers, such as main fau website, banner.fau.edu, links, lmsapps, talon, owlres, egrades, papercut, myowl, appstatus and more.
End-user impact: We do not expect any end-user impact as the load balancer should fail over gracefully. In case there are issues, the sites behind the load balancers may not be accessible for a few seconds.

Cloud Native Upgrade
Description of change: The Office of Information Technology will be performing an upgrade to the Cloud Native Core in Boca.
Downtime window start: 06/08/2023 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/08/2023 5:30 AM
Affected services: Management of Kubernetes clusters.
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.

Update Banner table
Description of change: OIT will make some changes in Banner to allow Registrar’s Office to updated holds.
Downtime window start: 06/08/2023 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/08/2023 3:30 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

Emmersion Spanish Placement Test Deployment
Description of change: OIT will apply some changes to improve access to the Emmersion Spanish placement test
Downtime window start: 06/08/2023 5:00 PM
Downtime window end: 06/08/2023 6:00 PM
Affected services: OwlDocs
End-user impact: No end-user impace is expected.

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

[RESOLVED 5:30 am] University Forms Server

During the University Form Server upgrade, the software experienced a critical error and the Office of Information Technology is working to restore services at this time. We suspect the system to be online shortly. We will update this post every 2 hours while we work to restore services. This affects University Admissions Applications, and numerous forms.

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

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

Database migration
Description of change: OIT will be migrating several databases to different servers
Downtime window start: 06/01/2023 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/01/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: All databases involved in the migration will be unavailable during the window.
End-user impact: Users will not be able to access any services that are tied to the databases during the migration.

University Form Server Maintenance
Description of change: The University form server will undergo maintenance to improve performance and decrease the effort needed for upgrades.
Downtime window start: 06/01/2023 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/01/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: Forms.fau.edu, Apply.fau.edu, Cobapp.fau.edu, NonDegree.fau.edu
End-user impact: Users will not be able to submit forms during the maintenance.

Banner Server Maintenance
Description of change: Banner Production will need to be restarted to apply updates to the configurations. This is to ensure all settings are consistent with the Ellucian standards.
Downtime window start: 06/01/2023 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/01/2023 5:20 AM
Affected services: Banner Admin, Banner Self Service.
End-user impact: Users will not be able to access Banner admin or Self-service during this time.

Banner SSOManager Maintenance
Description of change: Changes to the configuration of the Banner SSO Manager application will take place. This change will update settings within the application to ensure its proper functionality.
Downtime window start: 06/01/2023 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 06/01/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: SSOManager
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. May 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, 05/25/2023 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 several core systems from 12:00am to 4:00am on May 25. During this time, the undergraduate application, MyOwl Services, Owl KPIs, and Owl Files will be unavailable.
Downtime window start: 05/25/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 05/25/2023 4:00 AM
Affected services: MyOwl Services, Owl KPIs,Owl Files, Undergraduate Application
End-user impact: The services listed above will be unavailabe during the maintenance window.

RDS Licensing Server upgrade
Description of change: Performing a Windows OS upgrade on our Remote Desktop Licensing Server
Downtime window start: 05/25/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 05/25/2023 6:00 AM
Affected services: This change will have an impact on any services using the server for remote desktop services, terminal services or VDI.
End-user impact: Faculty and Staff.

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will renew certificates
Downtime window start: 05/25/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 05/25/2023 4:00 AM
Affected services: Any SSO Service
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be updating the software on one of its management servers.
Downtime window start: 05/25/2023 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 05/25/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: Advanced VPN clients
End-user impact: Advanced VPN clients will show that they are disconnected from their management server. This will not impact VPN/remote access.

OwlDone bug fixes and feature enhancment
Description of change: OIT will fix SOAR module for HCAA to have text displayed. Changed aid year to be dynamic to more accurately display status financial aid module. Converted owlsey image generation from coldfusion script to be natively handled within owldone.
Downtime window start: 05/25/2023 6:00 PM
Downtime window end: 05/25/2023 6:00 PM
Affected services: OwlDone
End-user impact: Students

BHRIC Maintenance
Description of change: Research Computing will be adding another domain controller in Boca and once We ensure that is synched up power off the older DC in Jupiter
Downtime window start: 05/26/2023 7:00 PM
Downtime window end: 05/28/2023 10:00 AM
Affected services: health.ad.fau.edu , https://vhealth.fau.edu, BHRIC File servers
End-user impact: No user impace should occur. However, if there is a problem this would prevent users from connecting into BHRIC VMWare.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems, Uncategorized

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. May 18 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, 05/18/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Disaster Recovery Testing
Description of change: OIT will perform disaster recovery testing on the wired and wireless network in preparation for hurricane season.
Downtime window start: 05/18/2023 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 05/18/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: Wired and Wireless network
End-user impact: All faculty, staff, and students.

RDS Licensing Server upgrade
Description of change: OIT will perform a Windows OS upgrade on our Remote Desktop Licensing Server
Downtime window start: 05/18/2023 12:01 AM
Downtime window end: 05/18/2023 6:00 AM
Affected services: This change will have an impact on any services using the server for remote desktop services, terminal services or VDI.
End-user impact: Faculty and Staff using the remote desktop services, terminal services or VDI.

Banner program change
Description of change: OIT will create a new Banner program to populate Workday payroll accounting adjustment records into Financial Aid College Work Study table
Downtime window start: 05/18/2023 12:01 AM
Downtime window end: 05/18/2023 1:00 AM
Affected services: Banner and Workday
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

Banner maintenance
Description of change: OIT will update Hold for Degree and Hold for Grades dates in Banner
Downtime window start: 05/18/2023 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 05/18/2023 6:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during the change.

University Form Server Maintenance
Description of change: The University form server will undergo maintenance to improve performance and decrease the effort needed for upgrades.
Downtime window start: 05/18/2023 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 05/18/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: forms.fau.edu, apply.fau.edu, cobapp.fau.edu, nondegree.fau.edu
End-user impact: The services listed above may be unavailable during the maintenance window.

Service Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will upgrade some domain services at HBOI.
Downtime window start: 05/18/2023 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 05/18/2023 4:30 AM
Affected services: Domain authentication on the HBOI campus
End-user impact: All users at the HBOI campus

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