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\/25\/2018 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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\nSingle Sign On Upgrade
\nDescription of change:\u00a0 Single Sign On will be updated to prompt users to provide important information when login in to specific sites and services.\u200b\u200b
\nDowntime window start: 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 7:00 AM
\nAffected services: Single Sign On – All services such as Banner Self Service, Workday, Canvas, Office 365, and others which use Single Sign On\u200b
\nAffected systems: shibboleth1p, shibboleth2p, shibboleth3p
\nExpected End-user impact:\u00a0 During this time, users may have difficulty logging into Canvas, Workday, Self Service and other services while upgrades are being performed. \u200b<\/p>\n
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\nUpdates to Self Service Account
\nDescription of change:\u00a0 We are applying patches to the backend systems. These changes should not cause any loss of service.
\nDowntime window start: 5:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 6:00 AM
\nAffected services: Banner, OIM
\nAffected systems: Banner Database, boc22oimp1, boc22oimp2
\nExpected End-user impact:\u00a0 During this time no end-user impact is expected.<\/p>\n
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\nOracle Server Maintenance
\nDescription of change: \u200bOIT will be applying the latest Oracle quarterly patch updates to the production \u200bdatabases.
\nDowntime window start: 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 7:00 AM
\nAffected services:\u00a0 Banner production, Report Caster production, Oracle Identity Manager production, Identity Manager (IDM) production, ODS production, MSOP instance, MyFAU, Blackboard
\nAffected systems: bannerprd, boc22ora01, boc22ora03, boc22ora\u200b05, boc22ora07, odsprod, mcoracle, bbloracle
\nExpected End-user impact:\u00a0 During this time services\u00a0listed above will be unavailable at times.<\/p>\n
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\nSecurity Enhancements for public facing IIS servers.
\nDescription of change:\u00a0 OIT is changing the cryptographic protocols that are allowed for IIS servers that are public facing. Beginning on the 25th only TLS 1.2 will be allowed to those servers. The servers will still be able to use other protocols, but the servers no longer be able to accept any protocol other than TLS 1.2.
\nDowntime window start: 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 6:00 AM
\nAffected services:\u00a0 Various. Mostly *.fau.edu websites hosted on Windows Servers running IIS. See Affected Systems for a list of IIS servers that will be affected.
\nAffected systems: ADCON, BBC, BOC22BANRDBRKR1, BOC22BANRDBRKR2, BOC22CFDEV1, BOC22CFDEV2, BOC22CFPROD1, BOC22CFPROD2,
\nBOC22DEVEMS, BOC22DMS01, BOC22FINAID, BOC22FUSION, BOC22HOU3, BOC22IEA1, BOC22IEADEV1, BOC22KOFAXCAP, BOC22KOFAXCAPT,
\nBOC22RDWEB, BOC22SATRANE, BOC22TALWEB1, BOC22TALWEB2, BOC22TALWEBDEV1, BOC22TALWEBDEV2, BOC22WAPPORTAL, BOC22WAPSPF,
\nBOC22WEB5, BRAIN, CONTROLLER, DORSRV1, DORSRV2, ECHOAPI, ECHOAPITEST, ECHOPROC1, ECHOPROC6, ECHOPROC7, ECHOPROC8, ECHOTEST,
\nECHOWEB, FAUWEB5, FAUWEB6, ISS, ISSDEV, NWRDCREMOTECON, PINKY, SCOM, XITRACS, XITRACSTEST, YAKKO\u200b
\nExpected End-user impact:\u00a0 During this time, systems will be unavailable when the servers are rebooted for changes to take effect. Afterwards clients will need to be running an OS\/Browser that supports TLS 1.2 to connect to the services hosted on these systems.<\/p>\n
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