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\/16\/2014 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window.\u00a0 In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:<\/p>\n
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When: 3:00AM to 6:00AM
\nAffected services: Identity Manager, User account creation, Password Synchronization, MyFAU, SSO, Blackboard, Banner Self Service, All authentication Services
\nAffected systems: idm4p, idm1, idm2, MCSource\u200b
\nDescription of maintenance: OIT will be upgrading the Identity Manager connection to MyFAU to correct a bug that prevents returning users from automatically receiving active directory accounts.\u200b
\nUser impact: User passwords may not sync during this change window\u200b as the connector will be offline during the upgrade.<\/p>\n
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When: 3:00AM to 6:00AM
\nAffected services: \u200bAD authentication on Jupiter campus
\nAffected systems: jupdcfau01 & jupdcirm01\u200b
\nDescription of maintenance: OIT is updating the systems servicing user and computer account authentication for the Jupiter campus.
\nUser impact: Logins on the Jupiter campus may be slower during the window<\/p>\n
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When: 4:00AM to 6:00AM
\nAffected services: Blackboard
\nAffected systems: Blackboard
\nDescription of maintenance: OIT will be changing the mail server blackboard uses to send emails out to the users.\u00a0 This is to fix an issue where a small percentage of users were getting [Suspicious Message] appended to their outbound emails.
\nUser impact: We will be doing rolling restarts to make the config change and hope that this will not impact any users at all.<\/p>\n
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When: 6:00AM to 6:10AM
\nAffected services: Exchange email
\nAffected systems: exchangeca[01-05] & exchangemb[01-05]\u200b
\nDescription of maintenance: OIT will be implementing the following limitations on all FAU employee mail accounts: \u2022\u200bCan send to 5,000 recipients per day \u2022Can send a maximum of 30 messages per minute
\nUser impact: \u200bNo end-user impact is expected during the policy change<\/p>\n
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When: 6:15AM to 6:50AM
\nAffected services: none
\nAffected systems: Ironport server (bertx)
\nDescription of maintenance:\u00a0 OIT will upgrade the Ironport Server (bertx) from version 8.5.6-074 to 8.5.6-092 to fix a security problem\u200b
\nUser impact: No end-user impact is expected<\/p>\n
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When: 7:00AM to 7:10AM
\nAffected services: DPM (data protection manager)
\nAffected systems: Active Directory
\nDescription of maintenance: OIT will link a DPM Group Policy to enable DPM client server communication\u200b.
\nUser impact: No end-user impact is expected during the policy change<\/p>\n
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When: 4:45PM to 5:00PM
\nAffected services: \u200bVIP Student Record Image Retrieval (vip.fau.edu)
\nAffected systems: qstarserver2.fau.edu, vip.fau.edu
\nDescription of maintenance: The current server responsible for storing VIP images will be replaced by a newer, virtual one.\u200b
\nUser impact: \u200bUsers will not be able to retrieve images or image retrieval will be erratic during switchover.<\/p>\n
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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\/16\/2014 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during…<\/span><\/p>\n