Beginning at 9:00 PM MST tomorrow evening (Thursday, 6/17), Computing Services will be installing June Microsoft updates on all Windows production servers. Throughout this time, users will experience intermittent outages (5-15 minutes) and brief interruptions (10-15 minutes) to network services as systems reboot.

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

This week, Computing Services will be performing the following maintenance tasks for various systems:

***Maintenance Activities for Wednesday, 6/9/21***

Beginning at 6:00 PM MST on Wednesday evening, and lasting approximately 2 hours, we will be upgrading the System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), the system that is used to push all Window updates, software updates, and new applications. We expect no impact to users outside of Computing Services while this maintenance is performed.

***Maintenance Activities for Thursday, 6/10/21***

Beginning at 9:00 PM MST on Thursday evening, we will be installing June 2021 Microsoft patches/updates to our test systems for possible deployment next week. We anticipate no impact for client-facing systems.

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

Good morning, Adams State Banner Community.

The 2021 Banner Quarter 1 Updates have been deployed to the production environment this morning, June 5th 2021. The Banner Admin and Self-Service applications are available at this time.

The Banner modules details are outlined in the Banner Google Calendar:
Adams State University – Banner Updates Calendar

The latest Banner 2021 Quarter 1 updates include:

Banner DB Upgrade 9.23
Banner Access Mgmt 9.3.17.0.5
Banner Admin Common 9.3.24.0.3
Banner App Nav 3.4
Banner Communication Management 9.7.2
Banner Document Management System 8.7.4.3

Banner Ethos API DB Upgrade 9.23
Banner Event Publisher 9.5
Banner Event Publisher Database Upgrade 9.5
Banner Extensibility 9.8

Banner Integration API 9.23
Banner Student API 9.23 Banner Accounts Receivable 8.8, 9.3.18.0.7
Banner Employee Self Service 8.19, 9.14
Banner Faculty Self Service 8.7.2.8, 9.14.1
Banner Financial Aid 8.39.2, 8.40, 9.3.24.0.3, 9.3.25.0.1
Banner Financial Aid Self Service 8.39.2
Banner Finance 8.13.1.3, 8.13.1.4, 9.3.19.0.2
Banner Finance Self Service 9.4.1
Banner General 8.13, 9.3.19.0.5
Banner General Self Service 9.8
Banner HR and Payroll 8.19, 9.3.18.0.2
Banner Position Control 8.19, 8.19.0.1, 9.3.14.0.1
Banner Student 8.21, 8.21.0.1, 9.3.23.1.2
Banner Student Self Service 9.16
Banner Student Registration Self Service (COF) 9.18

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding for the downtime to deploy the critical 2021 Banner 1st Quarter Updates to our production environment. As always, if you have any questions, please call the ASU Computing Services Helpdesk at 7741 or contact us via email at computin…@adams.edu

Have a great day!
Computing Services

Beginning at 7:00 AM MST Saturday, 6/5/21, and lasting until approximately 1:00 PM, the Banner Production environment will be unavailable while Quarter 1 Updates are deployed. During this time, ALL Banner PROD services will be unavailable, including Banner Admin, Self-Service, Web-Services, and School Services, etc.

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding as we perform these critical maintenance activities. As always, 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

Beginning at 9:00 PM MST tomorrow evening (Thursday, 5/27), Computing Services will be performing maintenance and updates on various back-end servers. During this maintenance, users may experience a brief period (10-15 minutes) of service interruption to various web services, including Banner Web Services.

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding as we perform these critical maintenance activities. As always, 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

***Banner PROD Downtime and Computing Services Maintenance for Thursday, 5/20/21***

Beginning at 9:30 PM MST tomorrow evening (Thursday, 5/20), the Banner Production environment will be unavailable until approximately 2:30 AM MST Friday morning while Oracle Quarter 2 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.

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding as we perform these critical maintenance activities. As always, 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

Beginning at 6:00 PM MST this evening (Thursday, 5/13), Computing Services will be updating CLEAN Address in the Banner Production environment. While this update will slightly affect the Banner Admin page, Banner Self-Service will not be impacted and minimal downtime (less than 15 minutes) is expected.

Also this evening, but beginning at 9:00 PM MST, Computing Services will be performing the following maintenance activities:

–Installing May 2021 Microsoft patches/updates to our test systems, for possible deployment next week. We anticipate no impact for client-facing systems.

–Updating the Docker Enterprise cluster. We anticipate no impact for client-facing systems.

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding as we perform these critical maintenance activities. As always, 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

Beginning at 9:00 PM MST tomorrow evening (Thursday, 4/22), Computing Services will be installing Microsoft Windows patches to all Windows-based systems, including employee, lab and TEC Classroom computers, even ASU-owned computers being used by employees at home. These patches will force a reboot, so please log off and leave your computers on at the end of your work day Thursday to assist with installation. 

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

Beginning at 9:00 PM MST Thursday, 4/15, Computing Services will be performing the following maintenance activities:

–Installing April 2021 Microsoft patches/updates to our test systems, for possible deployment next week. We anticipate no impact for client-facing systems.

–Installing Linux updates to several back-end servers (file, FS backup, deva/gitlab, MySQL). We anticipate no impact for client-facing systems.

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding as we perform these critical maintenance activities. As always, 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

With less than a month remaining of the spring semester, Computing Services wanted to take the opportunity to remind our students and employees of the threats posed by phishing attempts and email scams.

Phishing attempts can be fraudulent emails and telephone calls from someone posing as a trustworthy source in order to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and financial information. These attacks are on the rise, so it is critical that you remain vigilant about emails or calls you may receive.

We have been notified by our Financial Aid staff about one such phishing attempt. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is reporting that an IRS-impersonation scam is targeting university and college students and staff with “.edu” email addresses (see the NASFAA bulletin about this warning here).

These phishing emails display the IRS logo and use various subject lines such as “Tax Refund Payment” or “Recalculation of Your Tax Refund Payment.” It also asks individuals to click a link and submit additional information, such as date of birth, social security, and other personal details to claim their refund.

The IRS would never contact you via email, requesting personal information. If you receive one of these emails, you should not click the link nor provide any information.

Universities can often face an increase in the number of phishing attempts they receive in the build up to busy periods like semester end, so please continue to be vigilant and take the following action to prevent phishing attempts and email scams:

• Do not open or respond to emails that you suspect as being a phishing attempt or scam.
• Do not open attachments that have been sent to you by unknown sources or click on unknown links.
• Be mindful of the sender’s email address and any web links that you are sent – even a single character out of place may mean that it’s fake.

When in doubt, don’t click.

For questions or to report a scam email, contact ASU Computing Services at computingservices@adams.edu or (719) 587-7741.