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.