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Computing Services Maintenance and Banner Upgrade

Below is a list of the numerous Computing Services maintenance activities taking place Thursday night (7/28) as well as the Banner upgrade that will take place on Sunday (7/31):

Beginning at 5:00 PM today, the campus Internet bandwidth will be increased from 105 Mbps to 155 Mbps. There are no outages anticipated with this increase.

Employees are encouraged to leave their computers turned on but logged off when leaving work today (Thursday) in order to receive critical Microsoft Windows and Office Security patches.

Banner School Services and Forms will be unavailable for roughly 2 hours beginning at 9:00 PM tonight for maintenance.

The Accordent Streaming Media Server will be unavailable for roughly 2 hours beginning at 9:00 PM tonight for an Operating System Upgrade.

Web servers for numerous websites will be unavailable for roughly 1 hour beginning at 9:00 PM for maintenance.

**** BANNER UPGRADE SUNDAY ****

The Banner system will be unavailable this Sunday, July 31st from 8:00 AM until noon for a critical upgrade to the Financial Aid and Accounts Receivable modules. Banner services including School Services will be unavailable during this time.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at 719-587-7741 or via email at asccompserv@adams.edu. Thanks for your patience as we work through these critical upgrades and maintenance activities.

Computing Services Maintenance for Thursday, July 21st, 2011

The following maintenance activities will take place beginning at 9 PM during our normally scheduled maintenance window:

  • Faculty and Staff Email services will be unavailable from 9 PM until roughly 1 AM due to a configuration change. Employees will not be able to send or receive email during this time.
  • The campus LDAP server cluster will be unavailable from 9 PM until roughly 11 PM. Services such as logging into the Portal and WebCT/Blackboard will be unavailable during this time.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at asccompserv@adams.edu or call us at x7741.

Thank you,

Computing Services

Computing Services Maintenance for Thursday, July 14th, 2011

The following maintenance activities will take place after 9 PM during our regularly scheduled maintenance window:

  • Home and Shared Directories will be unavailable for roughly 3 hours due to an upgrade and patching of our campus file server.
  • Employee computers will receive an upgrade to Adobe Reader version 10.1. Employees are encouraged to leave their computers on but log out before going home today.
  • The Banner system will be taken down for roughly 45 minutes in order to replace the power supplies.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at asccompserv@adams.edu or by phone at x7741.

 

Computing Services Maintenance for Thursday, July 7th, 2011

The following maintenance activity will take place beginning at 9 PM during our regularly scheduled maintenance window:

  • All Banner Web and School Services will be unavailable for roughly two hours due to upgrades to the system
  • LDAP services will be briefly unavailable due to a reboot. Anticipated outage is less than 5 minutes.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at x7741 or via email at asccompserv@adams.edu