Beginning at 9:00 PM tonight, 2/27/2020, Computing Services will be performing maintenance on several campus systems, including the campus blogs, events, how-to, web database, and the campus name/DHCP servers. There will be minimal interruptions to campus services as we perform these maintenance activities and 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 7741 or contact us via email at computingservices@adams.edu.

Have a great day,
Computing Services

Good afternoon, Adams State Banner Community.

This Saturday, February 29th 2020, the following updates will be done in the Banner PROD environment:

(1) 8:00 am to 9:00 am – Financial Aid 8.37.2.3 Updates for the 2021 Pell Schedule

Banner Admin Applications will be available during this maintenance window.

Banner Self-Service Applications will be available during this maintenance window.

A momentary disruption to Application Navigator ~ 8:15 am.

(2) 7:00 am to 1:00 pm – BDM/ApplicationXtender (AX) 16.6 Patch 3 Upgrades

AX will be unavailable during this maintenance window.

The month of February has the following mandatory ERP updates where the details are outlined below and are in the Banner Google Calendar: Adams State University – Banner Updates Calendar

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding for the downtime to deploy the urgent Banner & AX 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

***Computing Services Maintenance for Thursday, 2/20/2020***

Beginning at 9:00 PM tonight, 2/20, Computing Services will be installing Microsoft Windows patches to employee, lab and TEC Classroom computers. Employees are encouraged to log off but leave their computers on when leaving work today to assist in the installation of these patches.

Also beginning at 9:00 PM, we will be performing maintenance and installing patches on all Windows servers. Throughout this time, users will experience intermittent outages (5-15 minutes) and brief interruptions to network services 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 7741 or contact us via email at computingservices@adams.edu.

Have a great day,

Computing Services

Beginning at 9:00 PM on Thursday, 2/13/2020, Computing Services will briefly take down the main website (adams.edu) to perform configuration clean-up. The website will be down for approximately 10 minutes while this work is performed.

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 7741 or contact us via email at computingservices@adams.edu.

Have a great day,
Computing Services

Good afternoon, Adams State Banner Community.

The 2019 Banner 4th Quarter Regulatory updates are successfully deployed to the production environment this morning. The Banner Admin and Self-Service Applications are available at this time. The details on the Banner modules updated are outlined below.

Banner 8

General 8.11.3
AR 8.5.7
Finance 8.12.0.4, 8.12.0.5
Fin Aid 8.37.2, 8.37.2.1, 8.37.2.2
Student 8.18.2
Banner 8 SS
Employee SS 8.16.1.1
Student SS 8.7.2.8
WebTailor 8.9.1

Banner 9

Admin Common 9.3.19.1
General 9.3.16
Finance 9.3.14
Fin Aid 9.3.18
Student 9.3.17

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding for the downtime to deploy the mandatory Banner & Oracle 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

Reminder Banner Updates Tomorrow Morning:
The 2019 Banner 4th Quarter Regulatory Updates are planned to be deployed to the production environment (PROD) on Saturday, 02/08/2020 starting at 8 am and hopefully completed by ~ 1 pm. The Banner Admin and Self-Service Applications will not be available during this time period.

Summary of Banner 4th Quarter 2019 Regulatory Releases:

Banner 8

General 8.11.3
AR 8.5.7
Finance 8.12.0.4, 8.12.0.5
Fin Aid 8.37.2, 8.37.2.1, 8.37.2.2
Student 8.18.2
Banner 8 SS
Employee SS 8.16.1.1
Student SS 8.7.2.8
WebTailor 8.9.1

Banner 9

Admin Common 9.3.19.1
General 9.3.16
Finance 9.3.14
Fin Aid 9.3.18
Student 9.3.17

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding for the downtime to deploy the mandatory Banner & Oracle 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

Greetings and welcome back from Computing Services! Now that the semester has begun and we are past our maintenance freeze, Computing Services will be performing several critical maintenance tasks that are required for our various systems. See below for details:

***Maintenance Activities for Thursday, 1/23/20***

Beginning at 9:30 PM and lasting until roughly 11:00 PM, Computing Services will be installing security updates on several systems. During this time, the campus file server (X: and S:) will be inaccessible for roughly one hour.

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 7741 or contact us via email at computingservices@adams.edu.

Have a great day,

Computing Services

***Follow-up information regarding unplanned Banner outage on Tuesday, 12/3/19***

Last night at around 8:00 PM, the storage server for our campus Banner database suffered a hardware error that caused the Banner system to become unavailable. Computing Services staff responded to the outage and were able to restore services by around 10:30 PM. 

***Required maintenance tonight, Wednesday, 12/4/19, to fully repair issue***

Beginning at 8:00 PM tonight (Wednesday, 12/4), Computing Services will be performing additional maintenance that is needed to fully repair the issue that occurred last night. Although no customer-facing services are anticipated to be impacted, we wanted to keep the campus informed of the progress.

***Additional maintenance activities for Thursday, 12/5/19***

Additionally, on Thursday, 12/5, beginning at 9:00 PM, Computing Services will be performing additional maintenance on a few back-end systems to add required storage. No customer-facing services are anticipated to be impacted by this maintenance.

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 7741 or contact us via email at computingservices@adams.edu.

Have a great day,

Computing Services

Good afternoon, Adams State Banner Community.

The Banner Quarter 3 updates are successfully deployed to the production environment today. The Banner Admin and Self-Service Applications are available at this time. The details on the Banner modules updated are outlined below:

Banner 8
General 8.11.2
AR 8.5.5, 8.5.6
Finance 8.12.0.3
Fin Aid 8.36, 8.37, 8.37.1
HR 8.16, 8.16.0.1 & Pos Ctrl 8.16
Student 8.18.1

Banner 8 Self-Service
Employee Self-Service 8.16

B9 Admin
Banner Access Manager (BAM) 9.3.15
Admin Common 9.3.18.1
General 9.3.15
AR 9.3.13
Finance 9.3.13
Fin Aid 9.3.17
HR 9.3.12 & Pos Ctrl 9.3.12
Student 9.3.16
AppNav 3.2.0.1

Note: the new Application Navigator has a new “Direct” search option that does not auto-fill the field once you start entering the process or object name. It requires the full seven character name, but seems to be faster than the standard search.

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding for the downtime to deploy the critical Banner 3rd Quarter 2019 & 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

Good evening, Adams State Banner Community.

The Banner Quarter 3 updates will be deployed to the production environment this Saturday, Nov 23rd 2019 starting at 7 am and hopefully completed by ~ 2 pm. The Banner Admin Applications will not be available during this time period. The Banner Self-Service Applications will be available, though there could be a momentary disruption in the web-services before 9 am. If there is an interruption in the web-services, then know it is temporary and please retry the service.

The details on the Banner modules updated are outlined below:

Banner 8
General 8.11.2
AR 8.5.5, 8.5.6
Finance 8.12.0.3
Fin Aid 8.36, 8.37, 8.37.1
HR 8.16, 8.16.0.1 & Pos Ctrl 8.16
Student 8.18.1

Banner 8 Self-Service
Employee Self-Service 8.16

B9 Admin
Banner Access Manager (BAM) 9.3.15
Admin Common 9.3.18.1
General 9.3.15
AR 9.3.13
Finance 9.3.13
Fin Aid 9.3.17
HR 9.3.12 & Pos Ctrl 9.3.12
Student 9.3.16
AppNav 3.2.0.1

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding for the downtime to deploy the critical Banner 3rd Quarter 2019 & 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