This week and next, Computing Services will be performing several critical maintenance tasks that are required for our various systems. See below for details.
***Banner PROD Downtime & Maintenance Activities for Thursday, 11/18/21***
Beginning at 9:00 PM MST this evening, the Banner PROD environment will be unavailable until approximately 2:00 AM MST Friday morning, 11/19, while Oracle Quarter 4 PSU updates are deployed. During this time, ALL Banner PROD services will be unavailable, including Banner Admin, Self-Service, Web-Services, and School Services, etc.
Also beginning at 9:00 PM MST this evening, Computing Services will be installing November Microsoft Windows updates to all Windows-based systems, including employee, lab and TEC Classroom computers. These patches will force a reboot, so please log off and leave your computers on at the end of your work day today to assist with installation.
Additionally, we will also be installing November updates on all Windows production servers beginning at 9:00 PM MST. Throughout this time, users will experience intermittent outages (5-15 minutes) and brief interruptions to network services as systems reboot.
***Banner PROD Downtime for Saturday, 11/20/21***
Beginning at 7:00 AM MST Saturday, 11/20, and lasting until approximately 12:00 PM, the Banner Production environment will be unavailable while 3rd Quarter Updates are deployed. During this time, ALL Banner PROD services will be unavailable, including Banner Admin, Self-Service, Web-Services, and School Services, etc.
***Maintenance Activities for Friday, 11/26/21***
On Friday, 11/26, all campus networking, wifi, and Internet services will have intermittent outages as Computing Services will be performing the following maintenance:
–Moving the CenturyLink/Lumen Internet link from our core router to a dedicated edge switch.
–Restarting the core router and all campus switches for firmware updates.
Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding as we perform these critical maintenance activities. If you have any questions, please call the ASU Computing Services Helpdesk at (719) 587-7741 or contact us via email at computingservices@adams.edu.
Have a great day,
Computing Services
