We are experiencing a network outage on the 1st and 2nd floor of the LA building on the Davie campus due to an extended electrical outage.

Changing your password from Microsoft Windows by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del is now completely supported by the password synchronization system. When password changes occur they will now immediately synchronize with MyFAU without a temporary loss of Banner Self Service access.

As a result of this update passwords may now be changed within MyFAU or on users desktop by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del.

Blackboard was unavailable between 4:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. due to maintenance

MyFAU was unavailable 4:45 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.

SafeAssign tool in Blackboard was unavailable during the the majority of the morning. It has since been restored..

The POP server experienced problems requiring a reboot of the server at about 8:30 a.m. Services were restored within 20 minutes.

SWISE maintenance will occur from 6:30 am – 7:00 am.   The following applications were available during that time:

• Blackboard Combine Course Section Requests
• Computer Training Schedule & Registration
• ETD (Electronic Thesis and Dissertation)
• PRT (Password Reset Tool)
• STAR (Strategies & Tips For Academic Recovery)
• WAC (Writing Across Curriculum)
• Experts Database
• LC (Learning Community) & FLC (Freshman Learning Community) Administrative Area
• SPOT (Student Perception of Teaching)
• Technology Fee Administrative Area
• True Blue Administrative Area

If you receive an e-mail that appears to be from “Florida Atlantic University [webmaster1@fau.edu]” and a subject line of “SERVICE NOTICE”, delete it. It asks for the recipient to click on the link provided to deactivate or keep their e-mail account. This message is NOT legitimate and is known as “phishing” — an attempt to get personal information from people. For more information on phishing and keeping your personal information secure, go to the IRM Network and Security site (http://www.fau.edu/irm/network) and the IRM News security edition (http://www.fau.edu/irm/about/irm_news/irmnews_0601.pdf.).

If you receive an e-mail that appears to be from “Florida Atlantic University [webmaster1@fau.edu]” and a subject line of “SERVICE NOTICE”, delete it. It asks for the recipient to click on the link provided to deactivate or keep their e-mail account.

This message is NOT legitimate and is known as “phishing” — an attempt to get personal information from people.

For more information on phishing and keeping your personal information secure, go to the IRM Network and Security site (http://www.fau.edu/irm/network) and the IRM News security edition (http://www.fau.edu/irm/about/irm_news/irmnews_0601.pdf.)

Our Systems staff members have reported that a faculty e-mail address has been compromised, and from this address someone has sent thousands of e-mails all over the world. Most of these messages are bouncing back and creating a problem for the mail system. We are in the process of cleaning up these “bad e-mails”. Mail on MyFAU is flowing a bit slow as a result of these messages bouncing.

This issue was resolved and emails were running properly by the next day.