***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

Beginning at 9:00 PM on Thursday, 11/21, Computing Services will be installing Microsoft Windows patches to campus computers. Employees are encouraged to log off but leave their computers on when leaving work tomorrow to assist in the installation of these patches.

Also beginning at 9:00 PM, we will be performing maintenance and updates 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

Banner PROD DB Available – Sunday 11/17/19 @ 9:45 am

The patch for Ellucian’s most recent Critical Defect (CR-000170315) is now deployed to PROD and all Banner services are up and available.

We appreciate your patience and understanding on the downtime to deploy this critical mandatory patch. 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 mandatory patch to Ellucian’s most recent Critical Defect (CR-000170315) will be deployed to PROD on Sunday 11/17/19 @ 8-9 am. A message will be sent out once the patching is complete.

We appreciate your patience and understanding on the downtime to deploy this critical mandatory patch. 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, 11/14, Computing Services will be performing maintenance and updates on various back-end servers. Throughout this time, users will experience 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

***Banner Downtime and Computing Services Maintenance for Thursday, 11/7/19***

The Banner production environment will be unavailable Thursday evening from 9:00 PM MST to early morning Friday, while Oracle PSU Quarter 3 updates are deployed to the PROD environment. During this time, ALL Banner services will be inaccessible, which includes Banner 9, Self-Service, Web-Services, School Services, and DegreeWorks, 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 7741 or contact us via email at computingservices@adams.edu.

Have a great day,

Computing Services

As we close out National Cybersecurity Awareness Month on this sunny Halloween, we hope that some of the tips we have shared have been useful. The more you know, the more you are prepared for the monsters, zombies, and mummies that are out there. Whether you’re on your phone, tablet, or computer, remember to Own IT. Protect IT. Secure IT. from things that go bump in the night or lurk in the dark web.

For some cybersecurity horror stories, check out this list of bone-chilling tales from our friends at Panda Security: Halloween Cybersecurity Horror Stories. Or, if you prefer your stories more on the cheesy side, this quick video from our colleagues at the University of Rochester has additional tips to stay safe: “The Top Ten” Movie Trailer.

Computing Services is here to help you with cybersecurity and answer any questions you may have. Feel free to contact us at (719) 587-7741, computingservices@adams.edu, or stop by our offices in the Computing Services building.

Have a great Halloween!
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It’s essential to take proactive measures to enhance cybersecurity at home, at work, and when you’re out and about. In previous weeks, we addressed how to best own and secure your personal information. Now, we need to safeguard all of that invaluable data, so here are some tips to help you “Protect IT.”

Keep a Clean Machine:

• Keep software current – Having the most up-to-date mobile security software, web browser, operating system and apps is the best defense against viruses, malware and other online threats, so keep your software updated to the latest version available. Turn on automatic updates so that you don’t have to think about it, and set your security software to run regular scans. If prompted to update your device, don’t hesitate—do it immediately.

• Delete when done – Many of us download apps for specific purposes, such as planning vacations, and no longer need them afterwards, or we may have previously downloaded apps that are longer useful or interesting to us. It’s a good security practice to delete all apps you no longer use.

Protect Your Personal Information:

• Secure your devices – Use strong passphrases, passcodes, or other features such as touch identification to lock your devices. Securing your device can help protect your information if your device is lost or stolen and keep prying eyes out.

• Now you see me, now you don’t – Some stores and other locations look for devices with WiFi or Bluetooth turned on to track your movements while you are within range. Disable WiFi and Bluetooth when not in use.

For more ideas to help you Protect IT, check out these 5 Steps to Protecting Your Digital Home from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) (https://www.cisa.gov/).

**Remember: if you connect, you must protect.**

Computing Services is here to help you with cybersecurity and answer any questions you may have. Feel free to contact us at (719) 587-7741, computingservices@adams.edu, or stop by our offices in the Computing Services building.

Have a great day!
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