OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Sept 28 from 12:01AM to 7:00AM
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, 09/28/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on Banner from 12:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on September 28, 2023. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install several module upgrades/patches/administrative pages to bring FAU up to compliance with the latest Financial Aid releases.
Downtime window start: 09/28/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/28/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: Banner will be unavailable during this time.
Upgrade Identity and Access Management Test
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the test identity and access management system by pointing the single sign-on and group management systems at the new directory structure and activating the test account recovery and activation system.
Downtime window start: 09/28/2023 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/28/2023 12:00 AM
Affected services: All systems using test SSO
End-user impact: Test users may be unable to login during maintenance.
BHRIC Server maintenance
Description of change: Research Computing will be performing maintenance on the BHRIC Domain Controllers
Downtime window start: 09/28/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/28/2023 1:00 AM
Affected services: Health domain
End-user impact: No end user downtime or impact is expected
Network Security Adjustments – CM22 Desktop Network
Description of change:
Downtime window start: 09/28/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/28/2023 1:00 AM
Affected services: No FAU services will be impacted by this change
End-user impact: In general, end user impact in the CM22 desktop subnet is not expected. However, this will cause some issues if a user in CM22 is trying to share their screen with a vendor using an unapproved remote management tool.
Atlassian Cloud Login Changes
Description of change: OIT will be updating the Atlassian Access login policies to force all @fau.edu addresses to use Single Sign On and MFA.
Downtime window start: 09/28/2023 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/28/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: All Atlassian.com cloud services
End-user impact: Users using @fau.edu accounts on Atlassian.com will be forced to use SSO.
Enrolled Students into Financial Aid courses in Canvas
Description of change: Create a list of freshmen students by term to be enrolled in Financial Aid courses in Canvas.
Downtime window start: 09/28/2023 5:00 PM
Downtime window end: 09/28/2023 6:00 PM
Affected services: Canvas
End-user impact: Students
Upgrade OwlForms (OwlAdminPages)
Description of change: OIT will upgrade framework to latest version to be up to date with new features and security updates.
Downtime window start: 09/28/2023 5:00 PM
Downtime window end: 09/28/2023 6:00 PM
Affected services: OwlForm (OwlAdmin Pages)
End-user impact: OwlForm Admin users
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