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, 01\/29\/2015 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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\nTitle: Remove WINS forward lookup from Active Directory DNS
\nWhen: 3:00AM – 3:15AM
\nAffected services: WINS
\nAffected systems: bocdcfau01, bocdcfau02, jupdcfau01, davdcfau01, towdcfau01, nwrdcfau01
\nDescription of maintenance: OIT is taking the first step to remove old name resolution services from the network.
\nUser impact: We do not expect any end user impact<\/p>\n
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Title: NWRDC DBC2 firmware upgrade
\nWhen: 3:00AM – 7:00AM
\nAffected services: All services will remain up during this process
\nAffected systems: nwrdcesxi31 to 35
\nDescription of maintenance: OIT will be upgrading the firmware on some blades at our disaster recovery (DR) site. As a result, several services running on the DR servers will be unavailable for approximately 4 hours.
\nUser impact: We do not expect any end user impact<\/p>\n
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Title: Remove Domain Controllers from HBOI
\nWhen: 3:00AM – 5:30AM
\nAffected services: Active Directory
\nAffected systems: tresdcfau01, tresdcirm01
\nDescription of maintenance: OIT will be decommissioning old authentication systems which are no longer needed.\u200b
\nUser impact: No end-user impact is expected. These systems were originally located at PSL campus and later moved to HBOI. They are no longer needed at HBOI and will therefore be removed.<\/p>\n
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Title: Security Update CAS 3.5.3 Upgrade
\nWhen: 4:00AM – 5:00AM
\nAffected services: Single Sign On and all systems that user it. Blackboard, InCommon, Google Applications, Self Service
\nAffected systems: cas1.fau.edu, cas2.fau.edu
\nDescription of maintenance: Upgrade CAS from 3.5.2 to CAS 3.5.3 to correct a possible security vulnerability.
\nUser impact: Single Sign-on will be unavailable for 5 – 10 minutes while we restart the service.<\/p>\n
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Title: Blackboard Maintenance
\nWhen: 5:00AM – 6:00AM
\nAffected services: Blackboard
\nAffected systems: Blackboard
\nDescription of maintenance: The DBAs will be running a script provided by Blackboard to resolve a bug affecting certain courses experiencing issues with Group Journals
\nUser impact: We don’t anticipate any user impact, unless backout is needed<\/p>\n
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Title: Undergraduate Admissions Application Server Restarts
\nWhen: 5:00AM – 5:30AM
\nAffected services: Undergraduate Admissions Application
\nAffected systems: boc22ug00.fau.edu, boc22ug01.fau.edu, boc22ug02.fau.edu, boc22ug03.fau.edu, boc22ug04.fau.edu, boc22ug05.fau.edu, boc22ugadmin.fau.edu
\nDescription of maintenance:\u00a0 OIT will restart the server for apply.fau.edu (Undergraduate Admissions Application version 2) to allow Honors Program information to be parsed into Banner.
\nUser impact: We do not anticipate any end user impact<\/p>\n
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