OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. April 15 from 12:00AM to 7:00AM

Posted on April 13, 2021 at 10:45 am by ann

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, 04/15/2021 from 12:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

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Student Information System (Banner) Financial Aid Upgrade
Downtime window start 4/15/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end 4/16/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: BANNER 8X/XE
Expected End-user impact: The Banner system will be unavailable during the installation of the new codes/patches.

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Email Server Upgrade
Downtime window start 4/15/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 4/15/2021 4:00 AM
Affected services: Inbound FAU email, smtp.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: Email delivery may be delayed for inbound mail. Clients may receive an error when sending mail to smtp.fau.edu during the change window.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Email

Telecommunications maintenance – April 9 – 12

Posted on April 9, 2021 at 10:05 am by ken

Communication Infrastructure will be performing emergency maintenance to the Telecommunications and Voice servers between 9:00 p.m. on Friday, April 9 and 3:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 10, 2021. Additional maintenance will take place between 9:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 11 and 1:00 a.m. on Monday, April 12, 2021.

During the maintenance window, there may be a 5 minute disruption to the campus voice, voicemail, and telephone networks.

If you experience any difficulties after the times outlined above, please contact the FAU help desk at https://helpdesk.fau.edu or 561-297-3999 for immediate assistance.

Thank you

Posted in Network and Telecom

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. April 8 from 12:00AM to 7:00AM

Posted on April 6, 2021 at 10:37 am by ann

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, 04/08/2021 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

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WebEx and Single Sign-on Maintenance
Downtime window start: 4/8/2021 6:30 AM
Downtime window end: 4/8/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: WebEx and Single sign-on (SSO)
Expected End-user impact: The SSO services will be restarted one server at a time so users may experience session errors during this time. WebEx sign-on may experience sign-on issue during this time while the certificate is swapped out.

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Student Advising System
Downtime window start: 4/8/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 4/8/2021 12:30 AM
Affected services: Student Advising System
Expected End-user impact: No user impact is anticipated

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Banner Maintenance
Downtime window start: 4/8/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 4/8/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: StarRez housing system
Expected End-user impact: No user impact is anticipated

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BHRIC VDI Maintenance
Downtime window start: 4/8/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 4/8/2021 2:00 AM
Affected services: BHRIC VMware VDI, https://vhealth.fau.edu , https://vhealthon.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: User may experience loss of connectivity to the BHRIC VDI.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Educational Technologies, Research Computing, Systems, Video Conferencing

[Resolved] Zoom: Live transcription services are unavailable

Posted on March 26, 2021 at 7:55 am by acampb28

Zoom has resolved the issue causing users to be unable to use Live Transcription services within Zoom Meetings.

Posted in Canvas / LMS, Video Conferencing

Zoom: Live transcription services are unavailable

Posted on March 25, 2021 at 4:42 pm by acampb28

Zoom has received reports of users being unable to utilize Live Transcription services within Zoom Meetings. Cloud Recording transcriptions are not impacted. Zoom is currently investigating and will provide updates as they have them.

Posted in Canvas / LMS, Video Conferencing

[Resolved] Zoom – A subset of users are unable to join meetings/webinars

Posted on March 25, 2021 at 4:38 pm by acampb28

This issue is now resolved.

Posted in Uncategorized

[Resolved] – Cisco Webex Connection through Canvas is currently unavailable

Posted on March 25, 2021 at 4:10 pm by jloiacon

UPDATE:

Users should now be able to access their Webex sessions from within Canvas

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User are currently experiencing issues connecting to Webex from within in Canvas.

Webex is aware of the issue and is currently implementing a fix, however, there has not been a timeline of when this will be resolved. In the meantime, webex users can access webex by going directly to https://fau.webex.com and if sharing the webex link with students is required, please follow these instructions.

For more updates about Cisco Webex’s Education Connector, click here.

Posted in Canvas / LMS, Educational Technologies

Zoom – A subset of users are unable to join meetings/webinars

Posted on March 25, 2021 at 2:26 pm by acampb28

Zoom has seen increased error reports while joining meetings/webinars on the US east coast and is investigating

Posted in Uncategorized

[RESOLVED] Page errors when attempting to access Canvas

Posted on March 25, 2021 at 10:26 am by cbarger

UPDATE:

#2 Canvas should now be operational. A fix was applied and is currently being monitored. (10:25 AM est)

#1 Canvas has identified the issue and applying a fix. (9:07 AM est)

When trying to access Canvas, users may get a 504 Gateway Time-Out error.

This has been reported to Canvas and they are currently investigating the issue.

https://status.instructure.com/

Posted in Canvas / LMS, Educational Technologies

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. March 25 from 3:00AM to 7:00AM

Posted on March 23, 2021 at 10:38 am by ann

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, 03/25/2021 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

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Website Maintenance
Downtime window start: 3/25/2021 3:30 AM
Downtime window end: 3/25/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: External DNS services in the global traffic manager subdomain. This covers almost all of public facing websites managed by OIT and external and internal websites hosted on the load balancers.
Expected End-user impact: Users may experience momentary disruption of persistent connections to affected sites. Users may need to reconnect to services that they were previously logged into. For non-persistent connections and general web browsing (e.g. the main www.fau.edu), end users may not experience any disruptions.

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Posted in Systems