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The following maintenance activities will take place tomorrow (Thursday):

• Banner- Student Web, School Services and the Banner Database will be down for maintenance from 9PM-Midnight.
• The site-wide web republish will take place tomorrow (Thursday) evening. Only stories and media elements in publish desks will be affected.

If you have any questions or concerns, please call the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at x7741.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the maintenance that was scheduled for last Thursday had to be moved to tonight, March 4th. The following activities will take place beginning at 9 PM:

• The main campus web database as well as LDAP services will be briefly interrupted due to maintenance activities. Start time is 9:00 PM, and estimated down time is 30 minutes.
• WebCT may have brief periods of interruption during login due to the LDAP maintenance. Estimated downtime is from 9:00 PM – 9:40 PM.
• Network Printing services will be interrupted for roughly 30 minutes beginning at 9:00 PM during an upgrade to the PCounter printing accounting software.

The following maintenance activities will take place this Thursday evening:

• UPDATED*** After 9 PM there may be brief outages to Banner services due to a network switch replacement
• Email Storage Optimization- All email services will be down between 9 PM and midnight as we diagnose and attempt to correct email storage issues.
• Employee, Lab and TEC Classroom computers will receive critical Microsoft security updates starting after 9 PM. Please leave your employee computers on when you leave work on Thursday

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at x7741

We will be implementing the FORMS server upgrade. Forms will be unavailable for about 3 hours Saturday morning beginning at 9:00 AM.

• Banner- Thursday night, we will be taking Banner offline to install Financial Aid upgrades. Banner will be unavailable from 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM. WebCT will still be available, but self service Banner will be unavailable.
• Banner- Saturday, February 13th, we will be implementing the FORMS server upgrade. Forms will be unavailable for about 3 hours Saturday morning beginning at 9:00 AM.
• The campus streaming server will be migrated Thursday night beginning at 9:00 PM, estimated unavailability is 15 minutes.
• Microsoft Servers (AD, print server, etc) will be patched beginning at 9:00 PM, estimated unavailability is 15 minutes at most to various MS services.
• MAC OS X server- Disaster recovery process and updates will occur Thursday beginning at 5:00 PM. No user impact is anticipated.
• A patch will be applied to the Aberdeen storage device, no user impact is anticipated.

On 9 Feb 2010 (Today)

We will be testing the FORMS server upgrade. This is the upgrade that failed last Thursday. We will be taking the FORMS server offline at 7:00 PM tonight, testing the upgrade and then restoring the forms server back to the original configuration. Staff will log in to banner as normal Wednesday morning. This will not interrupt any WebCt or self service banner (including one-stop links).

On 11 Feb 09 (Thursday)

We will be taking banner offline to install Financial Aid upgrades. Banner will be unavailable from 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM. WebCt will still be available, but self service banner will be unavailable.

On 13 Feb 10  (Saturday)

We will be implementing the FORMS server upgrade. Forms will be unavailable for about 3 hours Saturday morning beginning 9:00 AM.

• A replacement Barracuda email system will be installed starting after 9:00 PM. Anticipated email system downtime is 2 hours.
• Several services will be restarted Thursday night after 9:00 PM including lists.adams.edu, blogs.adams.edu, and howto.adams.edu. There is no anticipated noticeable downtime to these services.

• A migration of the Faculty and Staff email server system will begin Wednesday night at 9:00 PM and last roughly 3 hours. Email services will be temporarily unavailable during this time.