This week, Computing Services will be performing several critical maintenance tasks that are required for our various systems. See below for details.

***Maintenance Activities for Thursday, 2/4***

Beginning at 6:00 PM MST Thursday evening (2/4/21), Computing Services will be updating CLEAN Address in the Banner Production environment. We expect minimal impact to campus.

Also beginning at 6:00 PM MST on Thursday 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.

***Banner PROD Downtime for Saturday, 2/6***

Beginning at 7:00 AM MST Saturday morning (2/6/21), and lasting until approximately 10:00 AM, the Banner Production environment will be unavailable while Banner Quarter 4 Regulatory 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

Millions of people are unaware of and uninformed about how their personal information is being used, collected or shared in our digital society. Data Privacy Day, celebrated on January 28th each year, is an effort to empower people to protect their privacy, control their digital footprint, and escalate the protection of privacy and data as everyone’s priority.

This year’s theme is Own Your Privacy:

• Personal info is like money: Value it. Protect it. Personal information has tremendous value to businesses, just like money. Make informed decisions about whether or not to share your data.
• Keep tabs on apps. Many apps ask for access to personal information, such as your geographic location, contacts list, and photo album before you can use their services. Be mindful about who gets that information.
• Manage your privacy settings. Check the privacy and security settings on web services and apps and set them to your comfort level for information sharing. The National Cyber Security Alliance (staysafeonline.org) has compiled a list of direct links to update your privacy settings on popular devices and online services.

Computing Services is here to help. Feel free to contact us at (719) 587-7741, computingservices@adams.edu, or stop by our Help Desk on the first floor of Nielsen Library.

Have a great day!

ASU Computing Services

Beginning at 9:00 PM this evening, Computing Services will be performing the following maintenance activities:

–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 today to assist with installation.

–Installing January Microsoft updates on all Windows production servers and updating the Docker EE cluster and SLL proxies. During these activities, users will experience intermittent outages (5-15 minutes) and brief interruptions (up to 30 minutes) to network services, including Banner, as systems reboot.

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 tomorrow evening (Thursday, 1/14/2021), 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 no downtime is expected.

Also on Thursday evening, but beginning at 9:00 PM, Computing Services will be installing January 2021 Microsoft patches/updates to our test systems for deployment in the near future. 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

Good afternoon, Adams State Banner Community.

The 2020 Banner 4th Quarter End Of Year & Regulatory Updates are deployed to the production environment today, Jan 9th 2021. The Banner Admin and Self-Service applications are available at this time. All ERP services are restored and ready to use.

Banner Components Updated:

• Banner DB Upgrade 9.22
• Banner Accounts Receivable 9.3.17.0.2
• Banner Admin Common 9.3.23.0.4
• Banner Communication Management 9.7.1.1
• Banner Document Management System 8.7.4.2
• Banner Employee Self Service 8.18.1, 9.13
• Banner Extensibility 9.7.0.1
• Banner Faculty Self Service 9.13
• Banner Financial Aid 8.39.1, 9.3.23.0.1
• Banner Finance 8.13.1, 8.13.1.1, 9.3.18.0.3
• Banner General 8.12.3
• Banner General Self Service 9.7
• Banner HR and Payroll 8.18.2, 8.18.2.1, 9.3.17.0.3
• Banner Student 8.20.0.1, 8.20.1, 8.20.1.1, 8.20.2, 8.20.3 , 9.3.21.0.7, 9.3.22.0.4
• Banner Student Self Service 9.14
• Banner Web General 8.8.0.2
• Banner Web Tailor 8.9.1.3

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding for the downtime to deploy the critical 2020 Banner 4th Quarter & Regulatory 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 computingservices@adams.edu

Have a great day!

Computing Services

This week, 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, 1/7 and Friday, 1/8***

Beginning at 6:00 PM MST on Thursday 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.

Also this evening, but beginning at 9:00 PM MST, the Banner Production environment will be unavailable until approximately 6:00 AM Friday morning due to the Banner Oracle Database 12.2/19c Upgrade. During this time, ALL Banner PROD services will be unavailable, including Banner Admin, Self-Service, Web-Services, and School Services, etc.

***Banner PROD Downtime & Maintenance Activities for Saturday, 1/9***

Beginning at 6:00 AM MST Saturday and lasting until approximately 2:00 PM, the Banner Production environment will be unavailable while 4th Quarter End of Year and Regulatory Updates are deployed. During this time, ALL Banner PROD services will be unavailable, including Banner Admin, Self-Service, Web-Services, and School Services, etc.

Beginning at 3:00 PM MST on Saturday afternoon, we will be upgrading the Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) for our campus telephone system. We expect the campus telephone system — including voicemail, fax, and the ability to make 911 emergency calls — to be down for approximately 1 hour as we perform this upgrade.

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

This week, Computing Services will be performing several critical maintenance tasks that are required for our various systems. See below for details.

***Computing Services Maintenance for Thursday, 12/17/20***

Beginning at 6:00PM, Computing Services will be:

–Performing an in-place upgrade to campus print servers. Printing services will be unavailable for approximately 3 hours (6:00-9:00PM).

Then beginning at 9:00PM, 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. 

–Installing December Microsoft updates on all Windows production servers. Throughout this time, users will experience intermittent outages (5-15 minutes) and brief interruptions to network services as systems reboot.

***Additional maintenance continues throughout the week***

The upgrade of the Ceph backend storage cluster continues this week. Again, while no downtime is expected during this maintenance, we anticipate some decrease in performance and short outages are possible as servers restart.

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

Adams State has become aware of several attempts to file unemployment claims with the State of Colorado for individuals who are still employed at the University. These are known as “impostor claims” and there has been an increase across the country in such activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Human Resources has employment verification systems in place for unemployment claims and will contact individuals if a false claim is received. If an employee becomes aware that someone is using their identity to collect unemployment benefits, they should report this immediately to Human Resources.

The State also recommends that the employee:

• File a police report. You can file a “counter report” with your local police department. As a victim, you have the right to file this report. Filing this report does not mean that the police will investigate, but there will be a record of it on file and you can get a copy of the report for your records.
• Report identity theft to the Federal Trade Commission at: https://identitytheft.gov/. The FTC’s website includes helpful resources about how to recover from identity theft and how to protect your identity.
• Create a file where you can keep any records relating to this identity theft in one central place, in case you are notified of other fraud or breaches of your personal information.
• Check and monitor your credit reports at: http://www.annualcreditreport.com/. Keep in mind, if you have medical coverage with Anthem, you have access to credit monitoring and ID Theft protection. For more information, please visit the Benefits page on the HR website and click on “AllClear ID Protection – Anthem Members.”

Scammers rely on social engineering: In a typical phone scam, an employee will receive a phone call from someone claiming to be from the State of Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. The caller may state that the State has no record of employment and ask for the employee’s social security number so that they can receive unemployment benefits. 

No one from the State of Colorado nor Adams State (including the Human Resources office) will contact employees by phone to request personal or financial information. Any ASU employee who receives a call asking for a social security number or other personal information related to unemployment benefits should hang up immediately.

The Human Resources office is tracking unemployment fraud attempts. Employees who experience any of these problems are asked to send an email to Human Resources at hr@adams.edu or contact (719) 587-7990.

This week, Computing Services will be performing several critical maintenance tasks that are required for our various systems. See below for details.

***Computing Services Maintenance beginning Wednesday, 12/9 and continuing through next week***

Beginning after 12:00 noon today (Wednesday, 12/9) and continuing through next week, we will be upgrading the Ceph backend storage cluster. While no downtime is expected during this maintenance, we anticipate some decrease in performance as servers restart.

***Computing Services Maintenance for Thursday, 12/10***

On Thursday evening, beginning at 9:00 PM, Computing Services will be installing December 2020 Microsoft patches/updates to our test systems for deployment in the near future. 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

***Computing Services Maintenance for Wednesday, 11/18/20***

Beginning at 6:00 PM this evening, and lasting approximately 2 hours, we will be updating the System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) environment, which pushes all Window updates, software updates, and new applications. During this time, we expect no impact to users.

***Computing Services Maintenance for Thursday, 11/19/20***

Beginning at 9:00 PM Thursday evening, 11/19, 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. 

–Installing November Microsoft updates on all Windows production servers. Throughout this time, users will experience intermittent outages (5-10 minutes) and brief interruptions to network services as systems reboot.

–Performing changes to the proxy servers and other back-end systems. Users can expect a brief period (approximately 15 minutes) of unavailability of most web services, including Banner 9, Self-Service, Web-Services, School Services, and DegreeWorks.

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