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\/26\/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
Banner Self-Service, Blackboard, Graduate Admissions App, Active Directory, www.fau.edu<\/a>, SharePoint, PrivateEye, College of Education sites, Owlcard, Housing sites,\u00a0 and EMS<\/strong><\/p>\n When: 5:45 AM When: 3:00 \u2013 7:00 AM When: 5:45-6:15 AM When: 3:00 – 7:00 AM When: 3:00 – 4:00AM When: 3:00 – 7:00 AM When: 5:00 – 6:00 AM When: 3:00 – 6:00 AM 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\/26\/2013 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during…<\/span><\/p>\n
\nAffected services: sso.fau.edu<\/strong>
\nAffected systems: BigIP (load balancer)
\nDescription of maintenance: We are correcting an issue where iss.fau.edu cannot properly connect to sso.fau.edu. No downtime is expected, but in the event that things did not go right, and the user community is attempting to load a site that depends on sso.fau.edu, please have them try again in 5 minutes.
\nUser impact: No expected end user impact<\/p>\n
\nAffected services: Banner Self-Service<\/strong>
\nAffected systems: Banner FAUP
\nDescription of maintenance: The following Banner modules will be installed to the specified version in production FAUP: General 8.6.0 upgrade, General 8.6.0.2 patch, Web Tailor 8.6.0 upgrade, Web Tailor 8.6.0.1 & 8.6.0.2 patches, Web General 8.6.0 upgrade, Web General 8.6.0.1 patch, General 8.6.0.3 patch, General 8.6.1.1 patch
\nUser impact: Banner FAUP will be up and running during the updates. Banner Self-Service may have intermittent outages.<\/p>\n
\nAffected services: Blackboard<\/strong>
\nDescription: Blackboard has released an update to several Building Blocks including SafeAssign, Collaborate, and Blackboard Mobile.\u00a0 Additionally, publishers McGraw Hill and Cengage have released updated Building Blocks.
\nUser Impact: No expected end-user impact<\/p>\n
\nAffected services: Graduate Admissions Application<\/strong>
\nAffected systems: owlapp1, owlapp2
\nDescription of maintenance: The graduate admissions application will be upgraded to support the collection of supplemental applications and letters of recommendation.
\nUser impact: The graduate admissions application will be offline from 3:00am until 6:00am.<\/p>\n
\nAffected services: Active Directory<\/strong>
\nAffected systems: Active Directory
\nDescription of maintenance: We are installing a new version of the AD password filter which resolves an issue with the current filter that crashes the domain controller if a password change is processed with a password longer than 30 characters. This could cause longer login times although it’s not expected.
\nUser impact: No end-user impact is expected<\/p>\n
\nAffected Systems: All systems in BOC OU of FAU
\nDescription of Maintenance: We will link new GPO’s to the BOC Organizational Unit in Active Directory to allow signed updates from Microsoft as well as future third party software updates such as Adobe.
\nUser Impact:\u00a0 No end-user impact is expected.<\/p>\n
\nAffected services: www.fau.edu<\/a><\/strong>
\nAffected systems: webnet 5-7
\nDescription of maintenance: We are introducing the ability for www.fau.edu<\/a> to handle secure web pages (i.e. https addresses).
\nUser impact: Significant downtime to the point of discovery and ticket creation is not expected.\u00a0 However, if there is, please advise the user to try again in 5 to 10 minutes to allow either our failover processes to work or our backout procedure to finish. As a result of this change, users will be able to access any webpage on www.fau.edu<\/a> via https.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nAffected services: SharePoint, Graduate application, fsaAtlas, SCAC, vCenter, Xitracs, PrivateEye, SCOM, SCVMM, College of Education sites, Owlcard, Housing sites, EMS<\/strong>
\nAffected systems: sqlnode01, sqlnode02, mssql1, mssql2
\nDescription of maintenance: The storage for several Microsoft SQL servers will be migrated to the NetApp.
\nUser impact: The following services will be interrupted for a short period of time during the window: SharePoint, Graduate application, fsaAtlas, SCAC, vCenter, Xitracs, PrivateEye, College of Education sites, Owlcard, Housing sites, and EMS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"