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, 03\/29\/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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\nUpdate Mail Filter Appliance
\nDescription of change: OIT will be updating our mail filtering appliances.
\nDowntime window start: 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 7:00 AM
\nAffected services: Inbound email for fau.edu. Outbound email using “smtp.fau.edu” and “smtpxy.fau.edu.” Email between Office365 and Gmail (for students)
\nAffected systems: bertx.fau.edu, berty.fau.edu, boc22esa02.fau.edu, nwesa02.fau.edu
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, users may find mail delivery delayed and in some cases may get retries\/bounce backs on messages sent.<\/p>\n
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\nServer Upgrade and Maintenance
\nDescription of change: OIT will be upgrading the components of several systems to resolve bugs and add support for newer hardware.\u200b\u200b
\nDowntime window start: 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 7:00 AM
\nAffected services: ADFS, Shibboleth, Banner DR,
\nAffected systems: andisec, bigipnw, dhcpnwrdc1, dnsnw1, ds2p, eprintnw, exchangeca04, exchangemb05, jenkins, ldapnw1-el6, lintalon1nw, lists, madcatdr, metadatadr, nautilus, nwadfs, nwadfs.fau.cc, nwadfsp, nwadfsp.fau.cc, nwchessboard, nwdns, nwmgmt, nwmssql11, nwmssql12, nwnasmvi, nwoudd01, nwoudp01, nwoudt01, nwoudt02, nwrdcbanxe01, nwrdcbanxe02, nwrdcbanxe03, nwrdcbanxe04, nwrdcbanxe05, nwrdcnaconv, nwrdcoimp1, nwrdcoimp2, nwrdcoimwebp1, nwrdcoimwebp2, nwrdcora01, nwrdcuachieve1, nwrdcvcenter1, nwrdslic, sctformsdr, sctformsdr2, shibboleth3p, talonnw, wordpressnw
\nExpected End-user impact:\u00a0During this time, no end user impact is expected<\/p>\n
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\nRemoval of old computer from the domain
\nDescription of change: OIT will be removing computers from that directory that haven’t contacted the domain in over a year
\nDowntime window start: 6:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 6:30 AM
\nAffected services: N\/A
\nAffected systems: All computers that haven’t contacted the domain in over a year
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, no end user impact is expected<\/p>\n
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