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, 2/06/2025 from 4:00 AM to 8:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Printing Services Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading printing services used in the computer labs, library, and web printing on Thursday, February 6th, between the hours of 4AM and 7AM.
Change window start: 2/06/2025 4:00 AM
Change window end: 2/06/2025 7:00 AM
Affected services: Papercut pay for printing services including lab printing, pop-up client printing and web printing via fauprint.fau.edu.
Expected End-user impact: Printing services in the labs, library, and fauprint.fau.edu will be intermittently unavailable during this upgrade.

Deploy New Alert Software that will replace Altertus to Boca
Description of change: OIT will silently push out new SirCom alert software to all Intune/SCCM managed laptops and desktops for the Boca Campus starting Friday, February 7, at midnight.
Change window start: 2/07/2025 12:00 AM
Change window end: 2/14/2025 12:00 AM
Affected services: Intune Managed desktops and laptops
Expected End-user impact: None.

Banner graduation date change for College of Medicine
Description of change: OIT will be making a change to update the graduation date for the entire upcoming College of Medicine graduation class from 5/5/2025 – 5/6/2025.
Change window start: 2/06/2025 6:00 AM
Change window end: 2/06/2025 8:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: ​Services will be available.

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

[RESOLVED] Intermittent DNS lookup issues

The cause of the issue has been identified and corrected, no further issues at this time.

Posted in Uncategorized

[Update] Mediasite Recording delays

Mediasite has completed deploying their hotfix. Recording processing should now return to normal.

Posted in Uncategorized

[RESOLVED] uAchieve Degree Audit Outage

uAchieve is now working correctly. Students and Advisors should be able to call degree audits.

We are currently experiencing issues with the production degree audit system, uAchieve. We are working to restore the service now.

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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, 1/23/2024 from 12:00 AM to 12:00 PM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing routine maintenance the email gateways from 5:00 a.m. until 6:00 a.m. on Thursday January 23rd. Email delivery may be impacted during this time.
Downtime window start: 1/23/2024 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 1/23/2024 6:00 AM
Affected services: Email delivery
Expected End-user impact: None expected

Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing server maintenance on Thursday, January 23rd at midnight. During this time, there may be some interruptions when logging into university systems.
Downtime window start: 1/22/2024 11:30 PM
Downtime window end: 1/23/2024 12:00 AM
Affected services: 4P
Expected End-user impact: Service will be unavailable.

Load process package WSAKETBL change
Description of change: OIT will be making a change to the load process package which will add additional attributes that may be missing in Banner for returning students from 6:00 am until 12:00 pm on Thursday, January 23rd. Banner will be available during this time.
Downtime window start: 1/23/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 1/23/2024 12:00 PM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: ​Services will be available.

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

[RESOLVED] Issue with outbound calls on Davie Campus

Davie phones are having issues making outbound calls. If there is an emergency please use a cellular device.

We are actively working with the service provider to resolve the issue.

Posted in Network and Telecom, Uncategorized

[RESOLVED] – Single Sign-On Interruption – Unsupported Request

UPDATE 01/06/25 10:45AM:

Our team identified the issue, and it has been corrected. Maintenance will be done later tonight to ensure this issue does not happen again.

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

Some users may get the following message when trying to login to an application:

Web Login Service – Unsupported Request
The application you have accessed is not registered for use with this service.

If you close out your browser or retry, you will eventually get the login prompt, and be able to connect successfully.

We are working on the issue now, and should have it resolved momentarily.

Posted in Uncategorized

[Resolved] Service outages reported for Microsoft 365

Microsoft is currently experiencing issues worldwide. This affects Outlook and Teams apps, among others. Microsoft is working on the issue and will post updates when available.

Posted in Email, 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, 11/07/2024 from 12:00 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 12:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on Thursday 7th November. Banner will not be available during this time.
Downtime window start: 11/07/2024 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/07/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner Admin, Self-Service, Registration
Expected End-user impact: All end users of Banner will be impacted.

Banner, Graduate Admissions System and Admissions system Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on the graduate app, undergraduate app, and Banner from 6:00 a.m. until 8:00 a.m. on November 7th. During this time, access to Banner as well as admissions applications will be unavailable.
Downtime window start: 11/07/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/07/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: Service will be unavailable.

Personal Information Application Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on the Personal Information App from 6:00 a.m. until 8:00 a.m. on November 7th. During this time, the Personal Information App will be unavailable.
Downtime window start: 11/07/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/07/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: ​Personal Info app
Expected End-user impact: ​Service will be unavailable.

Owlforms Maintenance
Description of change: Owlforms will be under maintenance from 6:00 a.m. until 8:00 on November 7th. During this time, Owlforms will not be available.
Downtime window start: 11/07/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/07/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: ​Owlform
Expected End-user impact: ​Service will be unavailable.

Owldone Maintenance
Description of change: Owldone will be under maintenance from 6:00 a.m. until 8:00 on November 7th. During this time, no end user impact is expected.
Downtime window start: 11/07/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/07/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: ​Owldone
Expected End-user impact: ​No downtime expected.

Posted in Banner and Admin 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 from Wednesday, 10/08 until Friday, 10/11 between 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Microsoft 365 Login Adjustments
Description of change: OIT will be making adjustments to Microsoft 365 sign-in restrictions. End user impact is expected to be minimal.
Downtime window start: 10/09/2024 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/09/2024 7:05 AM
Affected services: Microsoft 365 and Azure services including VPN.
End-user impact: Compromised accounts will no longer be able to be accessed prior to remediation by OIT. Administrative accounts will only allow signing from geographically local locations.

Banner Database updates
Description of change: Ellucian will be performing quarterly patch updates on Banner and other related database servers.
Downtime window start: 10/10/2024 2:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/10/2024 6:00 AM
Affected services: Banner production, Appworx, Harvest, Follett bookstore, Oracle Enterprise Manager, ODS, Data Warehouse, Self Service, Touchnet
End-user impact: Banner will be unavailable during this time

Banner Interface update for intersession classes
Description of change: Modifying Banner registration page to display a new warning message for intersession courses.
Downtime window start: 10/10/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/10/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during the maintenance.

Updating civic literacy process in Banner
Description of change: The BOG has approved the new Civics Literacy requirements effective Fall 2024. Modifying the process to include two courses to be in compliance with the BOG.
Downtime window start: 10/10/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/10/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during the maintenance.

Advanced VPN Client Updates
Description of change: OIT will be pushing additional updates to user running the Advanced VPN client starting October 8th, 2024. Users will receive a notification to upgrade their VPN client and they will be prompted to reboot their device afterwards in order to apply the changes.
Downtime window start: 10/11/2024 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/11/2024 7:05 AM
Affected services: Advanced VPN
End-user impact: Users running the Advanced VPN client will be prompted to upgrade their client. If the user chooses not to upgrade, it will be automatically scheduled for later in the evening. Following the upgrade process, the user will be prompted to reboot their device.

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