IT Services Upgrades and Updates November 17-20
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Windows Workstations on Thursday, November 17
Georgia Southern Enterprise Device Management Services (EDMS) will be making updates on all Windows workstations Thursday, November 17, 2016, beginning at 10:00pm.
These updates will improve security and performance and will affect Windows workstations only. If you have a laptop that is not connected directly to the Georgia Southern network on campus, your computer will be updated the next time you connect to the on-campus network or if you connect to the virtual private network (VPN) (please note: updates via the VPN may take longer than when connected on campus).
Reminder: Restarts take place during the restart window, which is between midnight and 4:00am each morning.
These updates will require a restart that will take place automatically during the next restart window. If your computer is turned off during this time, updates will be applied the next time you turn on your computer. Your machine will then be restarted during the next workstation restart window.
Software to be updated:
- Windows security updates
To make the updates less likely to encounter conflicts, please follow these steps on Thursday, October 20, when you leave for the day:
- Save all of your work
- Restart your computer
- Do not log in
Systems Maintenance beginning on Friday, November 18
From 10:00pm on Saturday, November 19, until midnight on Sunday, November 20 (2 hours), MyGeorgiaSouthern will not be available.
This is the Google Calendar presenting the upgrades and updates taking place during the period of November 17 – 20.
You may scroll the calendar to view all of the activities. Click on the calendar text to see the services that will be affected during the activity.
A textual list of activities is included below the calendar.
Detailed description of maintenance activities:
Windows Workstations
The following elements of Windows Workstations will be updated on Thursday, November 17, beginning at 10:00pm
- Windows security updates
Affected Major Systems
The following services will be unavailable from 5:00pm on Friday, November 18, until 12:00 noon on Sunday, November 20:
- Banner
- Internet Native Banner (Banner on the Web)
- WINGS (Student and Faculty Self Service)
- Xtender
The following services will be unavailable from 10:00pm on Saturday, November 19, until midnight on Sunday, November 20: (2 hours)
- MyGeorgiaSouthern
The following services will be unavailable from 5:00am on Sunday, November 20, until 8:00am on Sunday, November 20:
- Eaglexpress
- Bookstore Registers
- Quadpoint Point of Sale
Operating Systems Updates
The following services will be unavailable from 5:00pm on Friday, November 18, until 11:59pm on Friday, November 18:
- 25Live
- Advancement Affiliate Search
- Advancement Self Service
- APEX
- Blackboard Analytics
- Data Warehouse
- Digital Signage
- E911 Location Services
- FAX Server
- Financial Edge
- Fundware
- Identity.GeorgiaSouthern.edu
- ISSM (Formerly FSA Atlas)
- Network Printing Services
- R: drive
- SharePoint
- VPN Services
- Workflow
The following services will be unavailable from 5:00pm on Friday, November 18, until 9:00pm on Friday, November 18:
- AIMS Parking Management
- Business & Finance File Systems
- Blackboard Transact (Eaglexpress)
- Bookstore Web Tracking System
- Campus Loan Manager
- Dining Plan Manager
- Events Management System
- Health Services
- IrisID
- Lightspeed POS
- Metasys
- Online Student Health
- ProxSafe
- QuadPoint Point of Sale System
- RMS – Housing
- Schlage SMS
- Sequoia SCS/PCPOS (Bookstore Registers/ASDC System)
- Stanley Door Access
- TMA – Maintenance Work Orders
- Urban Forest Metrix
- Watchguard
Posted in Archive News, IT News, Maintenance, Planned Downtime, Windows Workstations