OIT will be performing network maintenance tonight from 10:00 p.m. until 12:00 a.m. affecting all campuses. As a result of this maintenance, all connectivity to services and the internet will be disrupted for up to 10 minutes on each campus during the maintenance window.
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, 10/06/2022 from 12:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
REDCap Update
Description of change: REDCap will be offline while the Office of Information Technology performs routine maintenance.
Downtime window start: 10/06/2022 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/06/2022 1:00 AM
Affected services: RedCap
End-user impact: Service will be offline for everyone during update.
Server Maintenance Aptitude Remote Service
Description of change: The Office of Information Technology will be performing maintenance on a remote server used by the Aptitude team and other OIT users.
Downtime window start: 10/06/2022 8:00 PM
Downtime window end: 10/06/2022 9:00 PM
Affected services: Aptitude Remote Service
End-user impact: Aptitude and users from IEA that use this server to RDP to other servers.
Workday has alerted us that they found the source of the service degradation issue and have resolved it. We tested and the system is now back to standard performance.
Original Post:
Workday alerted us that they are having issues with Production tenants hosted in their WD1 Data Center. They are trying to determine the root cause so they can restore the service to normal operation. Users may experience slow loading pages, tasks not running, including the home page not loading when logging in. We will continue to monitor Workday’s progress and update this announcement as we receive alerts.
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, 09/29/2022 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
Disallow personal devices from being managed by FAU’s Microsoft tenant
Description of change: OIT will be disabling the feature that allows personal devices to be joined to FAU’s Microsoft Azure AD.
Downtime window start: 09/29/2022 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/29/2022 6:00 AM
Affected services: Personal devices
End-user impact: End users will no longer be able to join their personal devices to Azure AD
Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing server maintenance on Banner. During this time, access to the job scheduling system may be unavailable.
Downtime window start: 09/29/2022 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/29/2022 7:00 AM
Affected services: Appworx
End-user impact: Appworx will be unavailable during the upgrade.
***UPDATE*****
The help desk ticketing system is back online. The vendor is monitoring the system to make sure it is stable.
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We are currently experiencing issues with our help desk ticketing system. We have contacted our vendor and they are investigating the issue.
Network Registration for wireless and wired networks was upgraded this morning. If you experience any issue registering computers, printers or other devices please submit a ticket to the Help Desk.
Update as of 2:42 PM: The incident has been resolved.
Update as of 2:36 PM: A fix has been implemented and they are monitoring the results.
Update as of 2:31 PM: Instructure has identified the issue and a fix is being implemented.
Instructure has reported that a large portion of Canvas clients are experiencing slowness and errors in the US. We are monitoring their status of the issue and will post updates here as they come in.
We have identified that our anti-malware software Malwarebytes is currently blocking access to the Google.com domain. We are currently investigating the status and will update as we receive additional information.
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, 9/29/2022 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
Network Registration Upgrade
Description of change: The network registration system and part of the Library’s EZproxy authentication system will be upgraded and migrated to new infrastructure. These upgrades include several features requested by end users at The University. The new features are:
FAUGuest Wireless will support email addresses.
FAUGuest Wireless now supports FAU’s current theme and usability standards
Performance improvements to Network Registration
Downtime window start: 09/22/2022 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/22/2022 5:30 AM
Affected services: Network registration
End-user impact: The FAU Guest network registration system will get a new theme applied and will support email. There should be no other user impact.
Graduate Admissions Update
Description of change: OIT will be migrating the Graduate Admissions Application to new infrastructure.
Downtime window start: 09/22/2022 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/22/2022 7:00 AM
Affected services: Graduate Admissions application and College of Business admissions application
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.
Upgrade to International Student Services server
Description of change: OIT will upgrade the server for International Student Services
Downtime window start:09/20/2022 3:30 PM
Downtime window end: 09/20/2022 4:30 PM
Affected services: International Student Services
End-user impact: The server will be offline during the upgrade. As such, services running on the server will not be available.
RedCAP Update
Description of change:
Downtime window start: 09/22/2022 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/22/2022 1:00 AM
Affected services: RedCAP
End-user impact: Service will be offline for everyone during update.
Zoom has resolved the issue causing users to be unable to start and join Zoom Meetings.