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, 05\/10\/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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Updates to Self Service Account
\nDescription of change: Applying Security and Upgrades to Account Self Service Site
\nDowntime window start: 5:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 6:00 AM
\nAffected services: Account Self Service, Active Directory
\nAffected systems: Identity Management, Active Directory
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected<\/p>\n
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Server Maintenance – MyFAU
\nDescription of change: We are migrating the data storage location for the primary MyFAU webserver.\u00a0\u00a0 This change will free up backend resources for other projects.
\nDowntime window start: 4:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 5:00 AM
\nAffected services: MyFAU and services that rely on MyFAU or the ldap service on mcsource
\nAffected systems: MyFAU
\nExpected End-user impact:\u00a0 During this time, users will not be able to use MyFAU<\/p>\n
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MyFAU Maintenance
\nDescription of change: Applying updates to MyFAU Website. During the update users may not be able to login.
\nDowntime window start: 5:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 6:00 AM
\nAffected services: MyFAU
\nAffected systems: mcsource
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, users may not be able to login to MyFAU.<\/p>\n
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Server Maintenance – MyFAU
\nDescription of change: We are migrating the data storage location for the primary MyFAU webserver.\u00a0\u00a0 This change will free up backend resources for other projects.
\nDowntime window start: 4:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 5:00 AM
\nAffected services: MyFAU and services that rely on MyFAU or the ldap service on mcsource
\nAffected systems: MyFAU
\nExpected End-user impact:\u00a0 During this time, users will not be able to use MyFAU<\/p>\n
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Mail Server Configuration Change
\nDescription of change: OIT will be making a configuration change to one of its public facing mail servers.
\nDowntime window start: 8:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 8:00 AM
\nAffected services: Mail relay on smtpsec.fau.edu
\nAffected systems:\u00a0 smtpsec servers
\nExpected End-user impact:\u00a0Anyone who is not a member of the group FAU-GRP-S-SMTPSEC-ALLOWED attempting to relay mail through smtpsec will be rejected and receive an smtp error code. Currently the system is configured to accept mail and silently drop.<\/p>\n
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Enabling replication between directory servers
\nDescription of change:\u00a0 We will be bringing up two production OUD servers at NWRDC and replicating between the boca servers and the northwest servers
\nDowntime window start: 4:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 6:00 AM
\nAffected services: OUD related services
\nAffected systems:\u00a0 Northwest servers
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.<\/p>\n
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Instructional Technology Server Maintenance
\nDescription of change: Instructional Technologies VCS system hardware will be updated
\nDowntime window start: 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 4:00 AM
\nAffected services: VCS Expressway Primary and VCS Control Primary \u200b
\nAffected systems: VCS servers
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, VCS Expressway Primary and VCS Control Primary will be unavailable.<\/p>\n
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Banner Financial Aid 8.32.0.2 patch release
\nDescription of change:\u00a0 OIT will install Banner patches for financial aid to resolve a series of PELL\/loan disbursement issues.
\nDowntime window start: 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 4:00 AM
\nAffected services: Not Applicable
\nAffected systems: Banner Financial Aid
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.<\/p>\n
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Upgrade WebFOCUS to the new version 8.2.01
\nDescription of change: OIT is upgrading WebFOCUS version from 8.1 to 8.2.01\u200b
\nDowntime window start: 2:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 6:00 AM
\nAffected services: WebFOCUS\/Leap Ahead Production\u200b
\nAffected systems: IBIweb servers
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, WebFOCUS\/Leap Ahead Production will be temporarily unavailable.<\/p>\n
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