OIT Systems Maintenance

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, September 5 and Friday, September 6 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Banner Database updates
Description of change: Ellucian will be performing quarterly patch updates on Banner and other related database servers.
Downtime window start: 09/05/2024 2:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/05/2024 6:00 AM
Affected services: Banner production, Appworx, Harvest, Follett bookstore, Oracle Enterprise Manager, ODS, Data Warehouse, Self Service, Touchnet
End-user impact: Listed services will be unavailable during this time.

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT is updating components to ensure document management websites remain secure.
Downtime window start: 09/05/2024 4:30 AM
Downtime window end: 09/05/2024 5:00 AM
Affected services: Onbase document management system
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT is updating components to ensure user account information servers (LDAP) maintain their secure communications channel.
Downtime window start: 09/05/2024 5:30 AM
Downtime window end: 09/05/2024 6:00 AM
Affected services: Applications that are custom configured to rely on the OUD (Oracle Unified Directory) LDAP servers directly instead of their frontend BigIP entry point.
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected

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: 09/06/2024 2:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/06/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Single-Sign On (SSO), email
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected​

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: 09/06/2024 2:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/06/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: There is no downtime expected
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected​

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

[RESOLVED] MYFAU slow to load

This issue has been resolved.

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MYFAU is currently experiencing a system wide issue that is causing pages to take long to load. The vendor is aware and is working on resolving the issue.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

OIT

Posted in Educational Technologies, Email, Systems, Uncategorized

[RESOLVED] Intermittent Login Issues

This issue has been resolved.


Users may experience intermittent issues when connecting to FAU services including Canvas, Microsoft 365, Workday and VPN. OIT staff are aware of the issue and working on a resolution. Users encountering the issue may be able to login successfully following a restart of their web browser.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Uncategorized

Intermittent Login Issues

Users may experience intermittent issues when connecting to FAU services including Canvas, Microsoft 365, Workday and VPN. OIT staff are aware of the issue and working on a resolution. Users encountering the issue may be able to login successfully following a restart of their web browser.

Posted in Uncategorized

Microsoft Copilot Issues

FAU is currently experiencing issues with Microsoft Copilot. The issue has been reported to Microsoft for investigation. These issues affect all versions of Microsoft Copilot accessible via FAU NetIDs and include an inability to access the service, service icons and integrations disappearing, or errors indicating that a user does not have a license. We will post an update when we receive more information.

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OIT Systems Maintenance – 7/31 – 8/2/2024

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 between 07/31 and 8/2/2024 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

uAchieve Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be updating the uAchieve server
Downtime window start: 07/31/2024 11:00 PM
Downtime window end: 08/01/2024 12:00 AM
Affected services: uAchieve ( DARS ) – Degree Audits
End-user impact: uAchieve will be unavailable during this time.

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing server maintenance on Single-Sign-On from 11:00pm to 12:00am on July 31st, 2024. This during this time, there may be interruptions logging into FAU services but we do not expect end-user impact.
Downtime window start: 07/31/2024 11:00 PM
Downtime window end: 08/01/2024 12:00 AM
Affected services: Potentially all services using SSO
End-user impact: This during this time, there may be interruptions logging into FAU services but we do not expect end-user impact.

Oracle Database Patch on Production
Description of change: OIT will be applying Oracle database patches.
Downtime window start: 08/01/2024 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 08/01/2024 6:30 AM
Affected services: FrevvoApi, Egrades, Grouper, Graduate Admissions Application, Undergraduate Admissions Application, User Manager
End-user impact: The services listed will be unavailable during.

MYFAU Upcoming Release
Description of change: OIT will be updating MYFAU to include a new feature, Daily Course Schedule, and template update to bring pages up to new code standards.
Downtime window start: 08/01/2024 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 08/01/2024 6:00 AM
Affected services: MYFAU
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this time. Students will be able to see the Daily Course Schedule after the update.

Modification to AMCAS Email Update
Description of change: OIT will be modifying the Email update in Banner to prevent the email address to revert back to the student’s original email.
Downtime window start: 08/01/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 08/01/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this time.

Slate Decisions GPA Loading
Description of change: OIT will be modifying the Slate integration to include new data points. No impact to systems are expected.
Downtime window start: 08/01/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 08/01/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: No impact to systems are expected.

Update certificates for fau.edu
Description of change: OIT will be updating some TLS certificates prior to expiration to prevent interruption of services.
Downtime window start: 08/02/2024 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 08/02/2024 12:05 AM
Affected services: We do not anticipate any impact as a result of this change, however HTTPS services will present a newer certificate to clients for any new sessions.
End-user impact: We do not anticipate any end user impact as a result of this change.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems, Uncategorized

OIT Systems Maintenance

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, 07/25/2024 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 uAchieve from 12:00am to 4:00am on July 25th, 2024 and will be unavailable during that time.
Downtime window start: 07/25/2024 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 07/25/2024 4:00 AM
Affected services: uAchieve
End-user impact: uAchieve will be unavailable during this time.

Banner Tables Update For Licensure Programs
Description of change: OIT will update Banner tables for Licensure programs.
Downtime window start: 07/25/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 07/25/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this time.

Load Decision GPA to Banner in the Decision Posting Process
Description of change: OIT will update a table in Banner related to the decision process
Downtime window start: 07/25/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 07/25/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems, Uncategorized

[RESOLVED]Banner and Student Self Service unavailable

Services have been restored

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Services that utilizes CAS such as Banner and Student Self Service are not available at the moment.

We apologize for the inconvenience and are working on resolving the issue.

OIT

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Uncategorized

[Resolved] Mediasite Channel Error

The error preventing the loading of Mediasite channels has been resolved.

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[RESOLVED] Banner Admin Production Service Outage

Our MSP has restarted services, and upon testing Banner Admin is now reachable. Thank you.

Our Banner Appnav/Admin application is currently unavailable. We sent the information to our Managed Services Provider so we can restart all services and identify the issue. Users will receive a white screen when trying to login to Banner Admin. We will provide information once the issue has been corrected.

Thank you.

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