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, 08\/15\/2013 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window.\u00a0 In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:<\/p>\n
When: 2:30 AM – 6:00 AM
\nAffected services: Network connectivity
\nAffected systems: Wireless Networks (Boca) \u2013 DHCP and DNS, Wired Networks (Boca) \u2013 DHCP and DNS, Blackboard, Banner.fau.edu, My.fau.edu
\nDescription of maintenance: OIT Will be performing network and systems maintenance from 2:30 a.m. until 6:00 a.m. on Thursday August 15th.\u00a0 During this time, access to Blackboard, MyFAU, and Banner may be intermittently available. In addition, the wireless and desktop networks on the Boca Raton may experience some minor issues for a couple of minutes. Maintenance is scheduled from 2:30am to 6:00am, although maintenance should conclude shortly after 3:00am.
\nUser impact: The following services will be unavailable intermittently: Wireless Networks (Boca) \u2013 DHCP and DNS, Wired Networks (Boca) \u2013 DHCP and DNS, Blackboard, Banner.fau.edu, My.fau.edu<\/p>\n
When: 3:00 AM – 5:00 AM
\nAffected Services: Blackboard, Banner, Myfau, Filelocker, Directory Services, CAS, IDM, Netreg, Sharepoint, OwlApp, UGApp, Tms Bridge, WordPress, Housing (boc22hou3), windowsupdate, services hosted on Test bigIP ltms, lintalon2, ecswins01, acsmem02, jenkins, sccm_pxe, 7client11, idm4p, dnsboc1, flashgordon, boc22cm102srv10, sccm_pxe, talonx1, mad-development, SeleniumWin8, mcclient, owlappd, adcon, dhcpboc0t, SeleniumXP, WDG-CLI-01, devbclient8, idm2, DevEMSIIS, gapps, issdev, 7client10, dhcpboc1, ldapboc1, owls2.hpc.fau.edu, lintalon1, owl1.hpc.fau.edu, pxetest, idm1, ldapboc0, fauappsrv1, ecswins02, lintalon0, AppVcc, devbclient7, ldapboc0t, ldapboc0t, boc22cm102srv9, AppV-Testing, fauweb2, DevEMSManagement, owlappt, SeleniumWin7, testclient, dhcpboc0, BESNODE01, talonx2, acsmem04, fauwebdev, dnsboc0, and iss.
\nDescription of maintenance: Network settings for the 131.91.128.x, 131.91.129.x, and 131.91.131.x subnets are being changed as per the requirements of the OIT security group.
\nUser impact: There should be no significant end user impact.\u00a0 There might be some slight interruptions during the moment of switchover in the services listed above.<\/p>\n
When: 3:00 AM – 5:30 AM
\nAffected services: Windows Authentication
\nAffected systems: Windows domain controllers
\nDescription of maintenance: Half of the systems supporting Windows authentication on Boca campus will be migrated to new hardware.
\nUser impact: No end-user impact is expected.<\/p>\n
When: 3:00 AM – 3:05 AM
\nAffected services: Exchange email
\nAffected systems: Exchange email server
\nDescription of maintenance: FAU\u2019s mail system for faculty and staff will be modified to tell mail client software to contact it in a different way.
\nUser impact: No end-user impact is expected.<\/p>\n
When: 4:00 AM – 6:00 AM
\nAffected services: Blackboard
\nAffected systems: Blackboard
\nDescription of maintenance: Systems will be installing the cumulative patch #16 from Blackboard to be current on Blackboard patches.
\nUser impact: Blackboard will be unavailable while patch is installed.<\/p>\n
When: 5:45 AM – 6:15 AM
\nAffected Services: Blackboard
\nAffected Systems: Blackboard
\nDescription of maintenance: Blackboard has released updates to several Building Blocks (Retention Center, SafeAssign, Cloud Profiles, Pearson MyLabs, WileyPlus, Blackboard Collaborate).\u00a0 These updates will not require any downtime.
\nUser impact: No end-user impact is expected.<\/p>\n
When: 3:00 AM – 7:00 AM
\nAffected Services: Banner Production
\nAffected Systems: Financial Aid 8.17.2 upgrade and two patches, Financial Aid Self Service 8.17.1.1 patch, Attendance Tracking 9.0.0.2 patch, Catalog 9.1.0.1\/Schedule 9.1.0.1 patches
\nDescription of maintenance: The above mentioned Banner modules will be installed to the specified version in production FAUP.
\nUser impact: There will be no user impact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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