When: 9/24/12 3:20 PM – 4:00PM
Affected Services: Identity Management, Active Directory Group Membership Creation
Affected Systems: IDM
Description of Maintenance: IDM will have the Active Directory Groups attribute set to read-only, and the PowerShell script used for Home Directory creation will resume the creation of Groups membership for newly created Active Directory accounts.
User impact: There may be a very small time window where newly created accounts do not receive the default groups.
We are currently experiencing some issues with the FAU e-college website, http://fauonline.net not loading properly.
eCollege’s help desk has been contacted to resolve the issue.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
OIT
Communication Infrastructure will be performing network maintenance between 5:00a.m.-7:00a.m. on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Although no connectivity loss is expected during this maintenance, there is a small possibility of momentary network interruptions.
Talisma maintenance has been completed.
Thank you
Middleware
An error in our password policy caused some premature password expirations. This has now been resolved.
We regret any inconvenience this may have caused.
We have received reports of slowness when accessing our online ticketing system (Parature). Our vendor is currently investigating to determine the cause and hope to have the issue resolved as soon as possible.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
OIT
Password changes originating from Luminis are not being synced currently. Additionally, User Services may experience issues when managing users in IDM. We are working to resolve the issue.
** Update: the issue has been resolved
Thank you,
Middleware
IDM is currently not syncing password changes originating in Active Directory. We are working to resolve this issue.
** UPDATE: The issue has been resolved
Thank you,
Middleware
Blackboard maintenance has been completed and all services are functioning as normal.
Thanks
Middleware
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, 09/13/2012 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
When: 4:30 AM to 6:30AM
Affected services: Blackboard
Affected systems: Blackboard
Description of maintenance: This change is to make configuration changes to blackboard as well as to apply maintenance patches suggested by blackboard to fix an outstanding issue with session time outs.
User impact: Blackboard will be inaccessible during this time window.
When: 5:30 AM to 6:30 AM
Affected Services: IDM, Blackboard and Banner production databases
Affected Systems: boc22ora02, bbloracle, bannerprd
Description of Maintenance: Latest Oracle patch set update
User impact: IDM, Blackboard and Banner production will be unavailable.
When: 4:30 AM to 5:30 AM
Affected services: Password Reset
Affected systems: IDM
Description of maintenance: OIT will be making the final changes to the FAU Password complexity requirements. This will impact the initial default FAU password for users. The new default for accounts (FAUNet ID) created after the change will be the 3 letters of “fau” in lowercase followed by the user’s birthday in MMDDYY format (fauMMDDYY). For example if your birth date is September 3rd, 1997, your initial password would be fau090397.
In addition FAU will require all newly set passwords to meet the following requirements.
User impact: All newly created accounts will be created with a new password. Users who change their passwords must follow the new password complexity requirements. Between 5:00 AM and 7:00 AM user account creating and password changes will be delayed.