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, 07\/10\/2019 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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Server maintenance
\nDescription of change: Certificates for various secure web sites managed by OIT are being renewed
\nDowntime window start 7\/11\/2019 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end 7\/19\/2019 7:00 AM
\nAffected services: Almost all services that rely on our wildcard certificate.
\nAffected systems: bigip and any other system using the wildcard fau certificate\u200b
\nExpected End-user impact: varies. some to none depending on the sensitivity of the service on accepting a new certificate.<\/p>\n
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\nSecure file server data migration
\nDescription of change: OIT will be moving the data internally on a \u200bsecure file server
\nDowntime window start 7\/11\/2019 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end 7\/11\/2019 6:00 AM
\nAffected services: all shares on andisec
\nAffected systems: andisec
\nExpected End-user impact: all shares on andisec will be unavailable during the window<\/p>\n
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\nMail Server Upgrade
\nDescription of change: OIT will be migrating the mail servers that handle smtp.fau.edu to new servers.
\nDowntime window start 7\/11\/2019 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end 7\/11\/2019 4:00 AM
\nAffected services: Mail relay for smtp.fau.edu
\nAffected systems: boc22esa02.fau.edu, nwesa02.fau.edu
\nExpected End-user impact: Ideally none, however depending on how dns is cached for each client and how the smtp server settings were configured you may see bouncebacks\/failed to connect messages when dns is updated.<\/p>\n
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\nWindows configuration and deployment system upgrade
\nDescription of change: The system providing configuration, deployment and updates to Windows clients will be upgraded to the latest version
\nDowntime window start 7\/11\/2019 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end 7\/11\/2019 7:00 AM
\nAffected services: OS deployments, app installs, windows updates from SCCM\u200b
\n\u200bAffected systems: boc22sccm
\nExpected End-user impact: All OS deployments, app installs, windows updates from sccm will be unavailable during the window<\/p>\n
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\nBHRIC Servers upgrade from Windows 2012R2 to Windows 2019
\nDescription of change: We have series of Windows servers on BOCA RATON and JUPITER cloud platforms running Windows 2012 R2. These servers will be upgraded to Windows 2019\u200b. Several servers are upgraded successfully. We would like to continue upgrading all servers in 3\/4 servers per batch over next few months. \u200b\u200b
\nDowntime window start 7\/11\/2019 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end 7\/11\/2019 6:00 AM
\nAffected services: Various services on following servers in health domain: boc22-s-adc1, Boc22-s-ps.med, research-mssqlX, boc22-s-sql
\nAffected systems: boc22-s-adc1, Boc22-s-ps.med, research-mssqlX, boc22-s-sql
\nExpected End-user impact: NONE is expected\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n
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\nBanner Self-Service Maintenance
\nDescription of change: Change to fix flaws associated with Banner Registration (Version 9.12) that causes inaccurate information to be displayed to the students. This fix includes updates to the Registration search feature to fix defects on what courses are rendered and fix inaccurate descriptions\/sorting of other data points.
\nDowntime window start 7\/11\/2019 4:00 AM
\nDowntime window end 7\/11\/2019 6:00 AM
\nAffected services: Banner Self-Service
\nAffected systems: Banner XE
\nExpected End-user impact: There are no impact on user services expected<\/p>\n
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\nUpdates Accounts Self Service
\nDescription of change: Upgrading and patching account self service website.
\nDowntime window start 7\/11\/2019 5:00 AM
\nDowntime window end 7\/11\/2019 6:00 AM
\nAffected services: accounts.fau.edu
\nAffected systems: boc22oimwebp1, boc22oimwebp2, nwrdcoimwebp1, nwrdcoimwebp2
\nExpected End-user impact: Users may see a delay in password resets during the time the systems are being patched and rolled out.<\/p>\n
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Server Maintenance
\nDescription of change: We will be changing two northwest www.fau.edu webservers with new ones that are able to do shibboleth.
\nDowntime window start 7\/11\/2019 6:00 AM
\nDowntime window end 7\/11\/2019 7:00 AM
\nAffected services: None as these are the northwest www.fau.edu webservers and are also behind BigIP
\nAffected systems: Northwest www.fau.edu webservers\u200b
\nExpected End-user impact: No end user impact expected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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