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Network/Banner/e-mail Status

February 3, 2012

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 3:00pm today, February 3, 2012 until 8:00am Monday, February 6, 2012.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

November 11, 2011

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 3:00pm Friday, November 14, 2011 until 8:00am Monday, November 21, 2011.  Upgrades and patches will be installed during this downtime.

October 3, 2011

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 5:30pm today, Monday, October 3, 2011 until 8:00am Tuesday, October 4, 2011 to install an upgrade necessary for FISAP financial report to the completed.

September 15, 2011

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 5:30pm today, Thursday, September 15, 2011 until 8:00am Friday, September 16, 2011.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

August 25, 2011

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 5:30pm today, Thursday, August 25, 2011 until 8:00am Monday, August 29, 2011.  Banner/Xtender upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

July 25, 2011

Banner and Banner Web will be taken down at 6:00pm today, July 25, 2011 to install upgrades and will be back up at 8:00am Tuesday morning, July 26, 2011.

July 19, 2011

ABAC Banner will be taken down tonight, Tuesday, 7/19/2011 at 6 p.m.  to apply the GaMod 8.9 upgrade for Financial Aid HOPE disbursement.  Banner will be back up by Wednesday, 7/20/2011 at 8 a.m.

 

 

March 8, 2011

 

Banner SSB (PROD and BTST) and INB (BTST) will be down 3/15/2011.

Those systems will go down at midnight on 3/14/2011 and be restored to functionality at 8 a.m. on 3/16/2011.

We may need to experience additional downtime during this week (Spring break, March 14-18) for Banner 8 testing.

December 13, 2010

Banner INB down for a short period of time. 

November 12, 2010

Banner down due to power outage.  We will bring Banner back up and check for data integrity AFTER we have confirmation from Georgia Power that the electricity is stable.

 

July 26, 2010

Banner and Banner Web will go taken down from 5:30pm today, July 26, 2010 until 8:00am Tuesday, July 27, 2010.  HP will be installing two drivers and the power supply.

June 30, 2010

Banner and Banner Web will be go down at 10:00pm on June 30, 2010 to capture a copy of the end-of-year for FY 2009-2010.  As soon as the process is completed, Banner will return to full functionality-our hope is no later than 8:00am on Thursday, July 1, 2010.

April 26, 2010

Banner and Banner web will be taken down at 9:00pm tonight (Monday).  The system will be down for approximately 1 hour for backups to run.

April 2, 2010

Email server is down.  OITS is working to correct the problem.  Messages in your Outlook outbox should be sent once Outlook can connect to the available.  Target timeframe to have server back online is 7:00 p.m.

April 1, 2010

Banner and Banner web will be down from 3:00pm Friday, April 2, 2010 until 8:00am Saturday, April 3, 2010.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

December 15, 2009

Banner and Banner Web will be taken down at Noon today December 15, 2009 until late Friday afternoon December 18, 2009 due to system maintenance.

November 16, 2009

Banner and Banner Web will be taken down at 5:00pm today, November 16, 2009 until 8:00am Wednesday, November 18, 2009.  Equipment maintenance has been scheduled for this downtime.

October 28, 2009

Banner and Banner Web will be taken down at 6:00pm on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 until 8:00am Wednesday, November 4, 2009.  This downtime is for Hardware Maintenance.

October 28, 2009

Banner and Banner Web will be taken down at 3:00pm on Friday, October 30, 2009 until 8:00am Monday, November 2, 2009.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

October 22, 2009

There was a technical problem with Banner registration today.  Problem corrected.

September 15, 2009

Banner Web for students and employees is going down at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 until 8 a.m. Wednesday, September 16, 2009.

 

September 11, 2009

Banner INB and Banner Web will be going down Monday, September 14, 2009 at noon and return to operation on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 8:00am.

 

During this downtime, additional hardware will be installed.

 

September 1, 2009

Stallions Mail Server is down due to a failed hard drive. 

That mail server processes all the mail from ABAC_Web and IWEB (both web servers).  Therefore, no web forms being processed will send email notifications.  Please hold off on any web submissions until the Stallions mail server is fully functional again. 

In addition students will not be able to access wireless network until the service is back online. 

We hope to have the server back up with 1 ˝ hr.

We apologize for the inconvenience.  We will advise as soon as Stallions mail server is up and running.

August 27, 2009

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 8:00pm Sunday, August 30, 2009 until 7:30am Monday, August 31, 2009.

August 21, 2009

Banner and Banner Web will be taken down today, August 21, 2009 until 8:00am Monday, August 24, 2009.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

July 14, 2009

 

Banner and Banner Web will be taken down at 3:00pm today, July 14th to install additional disk space. 

 

Please log out of Banner by 3:00pm. 

 

We anticipate having the system back up well before 8:00am Wednesday, July 15th.

 

June 29, 2009

 

Banner and Banner Web will be taken down at 8:00pm Tuesday, June 30, 2009 until 8:00am Wednesday, July 1, 2009.  Yearend processing upgrades will be done during this downtime.

 

May 14, 2009

 

Today, Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 5:30 p.m., OITS will migrate the new web server to replace the existing/old public web server. The existing/old public web server will migrate to become the new intranet web server. We anticipate that the migration will take approximately an hour.

 

If problems arise, we will stop the migration and continue in the current state of operation until a later migration date.

 

 

May 4, 2009

Hardware malfunction, Banner should be back up by 6:30 pm.

May 4, 2009

Banner and Banner Web will be taken down.  It will be down indefinitely while we diagnose and correct the problem.  Realizing that we are in the midst of final exams, we will restore to full functionality ASAP.

April 30, 2009

 

To correct a problem between Banner and Xtender, Banner will need to be rebooted at 5:30 p.m. today.  (approximately 30 minutes)

 

 

April 17, 2009

Banner and Banner Web will be going down on Friday, April 17, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. for upgrades/patches. Banner and Banner Web will be back up functional by Monday, April 20, 2009 at 8:00 a.m.

 

February 13, 2009

Banner and Banner Web down Friday, February 20, 2009 at 3:00pm until 8:00am Monday, February 23, 2009.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

January 23, 2009

Banner and Banner Web down Friday, January 23, 2009 at 3:30pm until 8:00am Monday, January 26, 2009.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

December 12, 2008

Banner and Banner Web down Friday, December 12, 2008 from 11:30am to 6:00pm due to hardware problems.

November 4, 2008

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 3:00pm Friday, November 14, 2008 until 8:00am Monday, November 17, 2008.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

October 17, 2008

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 3:00pm Friday, October 17, 2008 until 8:00am Monday, October 20, 2008.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

September 22, 2008

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 3:00pm Friday, September 26, 2008 until 8:00am Monday, September 29, 2008.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

September 12, 2008

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 3:00pm Friday, September 12, 2008 until 8:00am Monday, September 15, 2008.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

August 20, 2008

From 8:00pm until midnight the phone system will be undergoing maintenance.  There could be temporary outages during this time.  Upon your return to the office on Thursday morning it should be business as usual.

August 18, 2008

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 3:00pm Friday August 22, 2008 until 8:00am Monday, August 25, 2008.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

July 11, 2008

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 3:00pm today until 8:00am Monday, July 14, 2008.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

June 11, 2008

Due to problems with the backup power supply we will be taking down Banner & Banner Web Thursday.  We do not know the exact time; we will notify everyone as soon as the Service Technician arrives.  It will be down for approximately 2 hours.

May 1, 2008

Monthly Upgrades will be installed on the following dates starting at 3:00pm on Friday:

May 9-11

June 20-22

July 11-13

August 22-24

September 12-14

September 26-28

October 17-19

March 25, 2008

We are having issues with student e-mail.  The student e-mails are bouncing back to the sender due to the problem.  Thank you for your patience as we work on the issue.

March 17, 2009

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 1:00pm Friday, March 21, 2008 until 8:00am Monday, March 24, 2008.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

February 11, 2008

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 3:00pm Friday, February 15, 2008 until 8:00am Monday, February 18, 2008.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

January 30, 2008

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 6:30am to 8:00am Thursday, January 31, 2008 for maintenance.

January 11, 2008

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 3:00pm today until 8:00am Monday, January 14, 2008 for maintenance.

November 12, 2007

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 3:00pm Friday, November 16, 2007 until 8:00am Monday, November 19, 2007.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

October 16, 2007

Banner INB will be down from 1200pm to 2:00pm to replace hardware on the server.

October 12, 2007

Banner INB is down at this time.  TechSupport is working to get the system back up.

Students and Faculty can access Banner through Banner Web.

 

October 1, 2007

Banner and Banner Web will be taken down at 4:45pm today for maintenance.

September 21, 2007

Banner and Banner Web will be taken down at 3:00pm today.  The system will be back up Monday, September 24, 2007 at 8:00am.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

September 12, 2007

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 3:00pm Friday, September 14, 2007 until 8:00am Monday, September 17, 2007.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

August 1, 2007

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 3:00pm Friday, August 3, 2007 until 8:00am Monday, August 6, 2007.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

June 27, 2007

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 8:00am Friday, July 13, 2007 until 8:00am Monday, July 16, 2007.  Banner and system upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

May 18, 2007

Banner and Banner web will be down from 3:00pm Friday, May 18, 2007 until 8:00am Monday, May 21, 2007.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

March 28, 2007

Banner and Banner Web will be down from March 30, 2007 at 3:00pm until April 2, 2007 at 8:00am.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

March 14, 2007

Banner and Banner Web will be taken down at 12:30pm on Wednesday for an equipment upgrade and will be back up as soon as the equipment has been installed.

February 20, 2007

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 5:30pm today until 8:00am tomorrow morning.  The SSN will be removed from the ID field during this downtime.

January 31, 2007

Banner and Banner Web will be taken down at 5:30pm today and will be back up at 8:00am in the morning.  Upgrades will be installed during this downtime.

January 19, 2007

Banner and Banner Web will be down from Friday, January 19, 2007 at 3:00pm until Monday, January 22, 2007 at 8:00am to install upgrades.

January 12, 2007

Banner and Banner Web will be down from Friday, January 12, 2007 at 3:00pm until Monday, January 15, 2007 at 8:00am to install upgrades.

November 17, 2006

Banner and Banner Web will be down from Friday, November 17, 2006 at 3:00pm until Monday November 20, 2006 at 8:00am to install upgrades.

August 16, 2006

E-mail connectivity was erratic .Problem was corrected.

 

Banner 7 upgrade dates:

September 29-October 6, 2006

November 3-November 10, 2006

 

 

Tentative dates for planned downtimes for Banner as OITS prepares for Banner 7 implementation.

Planned production date for Banner 7

Alternate production date for Banner 7

 

July 9-July 12, 2006

Banner and Banner Web down from 8:00pm Sunday, July 9, 2006 until Noon Wednesday, July 12, 2006 for operating system upgrades.

June 30-July 5, 2006

Banner and Banner Web down from 3:00pm on Friday, June 30, 2006 until 8:00am Wednesday, July 5, 2006 to install upgrades.

March 17, 2006

PeachNet Core site - 56 Marietta Street, Maintenance Window: Monday night (4/17/06) from 11:00 PM until 3:00 AM Tuesday morning

Although a loss of service is not expected, there is a possibility ABAC could be affected during this 4-hour maintenance period

March 7, 2006

Banner, Banner Web and BTST will be down from 5:30pm, March 6, 2006 until 8:00am Thursday, March 9, 2006 for upgrades.

February 17, 2006

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 3:00pm Friday, February 17, 2006 until 8:00am Monday, February 20, 2006 for upgrades.

February 10, 2006

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 3:00pm Friday, February 10, 2006 until 8:00am Monday, February 13, 2006 for upgrades.

December 3, 2005

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 12:00pm Saturday, December 3, 2005 until 8:00am Monday, December 4, 2005 to increase tables on PROD for imaging and other tables that are continuing to grow.ROD for imaging and other tables that are continuing to

November 18, 2005

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 5:00pm Friday,  November 18, 2005 until 8:00am Monday, November 21, 2005 to install Banner upgrades.

November 1, 2005

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 7:00am to Noon for Hardware Installation.

September 27, 2005-September 28, 2005

Banner and Banner Web will be down during this time to install Banner upgrades

August 26, 2005-August 29, 2005

Banner and Banner Web will be down during this time to install Banner upgrades. 

November 12, 2004-November 18,2004

Banner will be down during this time for upgrade to Banner 6.0.  Plans are to bring Banner 6.0 into production on Thursday, November 18, 8:00 a.m.

November 8, 2004

Outgoing e-mail services are temporarily down while server is being moved.

September 30, 2004

E-mail service may behave erratically; the server/network is under investigation.

September 15, 2004

E-mail services were down from approximately 8:00 am to 12:30 pm. 

August 19, 2004 - 10:45-11:05 am

Power line cut during ABAC Place construction.  Power to campus was down for approximately 20 minutes.   Even though Banner will be up, we will need about 45 minutes before we allow students to begin registering.  Normal operations should return by 12:30 p.m.

August 13, 2004-August 14, 2004

Banner and Banner Web will be down from 3:00 pm Friday, August 13, 2004, until 10:00 am Saturday, August 14, 2004, for Banner Upgrades to Financial Aid and Student components.

August 6, 2004 - 3:00 PM

 

Banner and Banner Web Friday, August 6, 3:00 pm, to install Banner upgrades.

 

 

 

August 2, 2004 - 5:30 PM-

August 5, 2004 - 8:00 AM

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Banner and Banner Web will be down from 5:30pm Monday, August 2, 2004, until 8:00am Thursday, August 5, 2004, for Software Upgrades.

 

June 9, 2004

 

 

 

Hardware problem with Banner server.  Banner is down.  HP tech support and parts are on the way.   We will let you know more just as soon as we have more information.  However, we do not anticipate that Banner will be up until tomorrow. 

April 16, 2004

 

Problems with PeachNet.  Users will experience problems connecting to servers and slow or no Internet connectivity.  This does not appear to be at the institutional level.  No time frame on when the problem will be corrected.

 

 

April 9, 2004, 5:00 PM-      April 12, 2004, 8:00 AM

 

 

Scheduled downtime: Banner and Banner Web down for upgrades.

(GAMOD5_17: Admissions: Tapeload; FinAid:  SAP-ZOBSAPR; Registrar: Regent’s Testing-ZORRTPR; BusOff: Web Billing; FINAID:  5.11.1 upgrade; PATCHES -   5.11.2 upgrade; PATCHES: Mostly student and finaid patches.)

April 6, 2004, 9:00 AM

 

Mail server upgrade:  Campus users should follow instructions provided:  http://www.abac.edu/oits/email/newemail.htm

Based on changes being made via Peachnet, there could be some delays in receiving mail for up to 48 hours.

 

 

March 26, 2004, 5:00 PM-

April 5, 2004, 8:00 AM

 

It will not be available from 5:00 pm Friday March 26 until Monday April 5. I will send you another message when it is available again.

Scheduled downtime: Banner and Banner Web down for a major upgrade to Oracle 9i Release 2.

 

January 27, 2004

 

 

Virus Threat:  Do not open any e-mail attachments. 

 

November 13, 5:00 PM- November 14, noon (Thursday-Friday)

 

November 14, 7am-9am

 

Scheduled downtime:  Banner and Banner Web will be down for maintenance and upgrades.

 

Scheduled downtime:  Blackboard and e-mail will be down in addition to Banner and BannerWeb.  Computer labs will not be affected during this short time.

November 21, 2:00 PM- November 24, 8:00 AM (Friday-Monday)

 

Scheduled downtime:  All network connectivity down for upgrades.  This includes Banner and e-mail access. 

Computer labs will close Friday at 2:00 pm will re-open Sunday at 2:00 p.m. 

September 11, 2003

 

 

 

Banner users need to exit the system now (8:30 am) so that a Business Office process can be run.  Users will be notified when they may re-enter the system.

Scheduled downtime:  Banner will be down for upgrades starting at 5:30 p.m., Thursday evening.   Banner will be up Friday, September 12, 8:00 a.m.

August 28, 2003

Nachi Virus:  (http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100559)

Please perform the following steps as soon as possible and contact via e-mail at techsupport@abac.edu when completed.

 

Windows Updates

Note: If you encounter a dialog box for “Security Warning,” asking “Do you want to install and run…, Check the box for “Always trust content from Microsoft Corporation.” Yes [button]
Windows 2000 and/or XP

1) Open Internet Explorer [icon]
2) Tools [menu]
3) Windows Update [pull-down]
4) If you do not see a Windows Update option, visit
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
5) Scan for Updates [link]
6) Review and Install Updates [link]
7) Any/All Critical Updates will be listed
8) Install Now [button]
9) OK [button] any message boxes
10) Accept [button] any license agreement boxes
11) Next/Continue [button] at any progress boxes
12) Reboot the PC if/when prompted.
13) Repeat these steps until “There are no critical updates available at this time.

McAfee  Antivirus Updates

1) Right click the red/blue anti-virus V shield in the system tray
2) Update Now [option]
3) Upon checking for updates, the Last Updated date will be shown.

Scan for Viruses
1) Right click the red/blue anti-virus shield in the system tray
2) Scan Now [option]
3) My Computer [option]
4) Note: This scan will take “forever” – start the scan during lunch, during class time, or before leaving work.

Please notify techsupport via email upon completion.

For problems please e-mail techsupport or call 3228.

 

August 21, 2003

During the evening and this morning, we were continuing to get e-mails from off-campus with the worm.sobig.f bug from one source.  We have contacted Peachnet and blocked this site from campus.

Do not open any of these e-mails.  Delete them.  McAfee should be preventing proliferation to other PC's.  See subject lines below for indication of e-mails to delete.

 

 

August 19 & 20,  2003

 

 

Services down for e-mail

Services for e-mail should return around 10:30 this morning (Wednesday, August 20).

OITS staff swept the campus the afternoon of August 19 to ensure that all PC's had the correct .dat file. 

To read about the worm, visit this site:  http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100561

NOTE:  Upon the return of e-mail services, delete all e-mail messages in your InBox that  include the following.   (Note:  It is probable that there will be numerous messages that need to be deleted).

Subject:

  • Re: Thank you!
  • Re: Details
  • Re: Re: My details
  • Re: Approved
  • Re: Your application
  • Re: Wicked screensaver
  • Re: That movie

Attachment:

  • your_document.pif
  • document_all.pif
  • thank_you.pif
  • your_details.pif
  • details.pif
  • document_9446.pif
  • application.pif
  • wicked_scr.scr
  • movie0045.pif

Body:

  • See the attached file for details
  • Please see the attached file for details

 

 

June 10-11, 2003

 

 

 

Banner/Banner Web down for maintenance

Maintenance has been rescheduled for a later date.

 

 

June 5-6, 2003

 

Services down for e-mail

For instructions on scanning your PC, click here.

For an update as to when e-mail services will return, click here.

To read about the nasty BugBear virus, click here.