The Novell pgrade to version 6.5 will be performed on the Faculty/Staff special applications server (FSAPPS) on Friday, 7/2/2004. This is the third server of a total of five to be upgraded. It is the last one to have a major impact on the campus community. The remaining two Novell servers to be upgraded do not provide file and print services for the campus publics and will be done “behind the scenes” (hopefully).

The FSAPPS server hosts applications such as Goldmine (for Admissions, ADCP and Seminary), TMA (for Phys Plant) and Past Perfect (for the Museum). The impact of doing this upgrade on Friday, 7/2, should be limited to these areas. Here are the planned outage details:

THU, 7/1 by 9:00pm : All Goldmine, TMA and Museum users must be logged out of their respective applications so that a valid backup of the system can be obtained.

FRI, 6:00am : Upgrade of FSAPPS officially begins
FRI, 5:00pm : Upgrade is (hopefully) completed

The Critical Information Alert (CIA) carried on the EMU Connection page (www.emu.edu/connection) will be used to keep the campus community informed about the progress of the upgrade. When the upgrade is complete the CIA notice will reflect this and give instructions for FSAPPS users to use the newly upgraded server.

NOTE: Info Systems will attempt to configure network space on FSAPPS early Friday morning so as to make it impossible for Goldmine, TMA and Museum users to map their respective drives on the FSAPPS server. However, we also request that users of these applications DO NOT attempt to use these applications during the day on Friday.
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Upgrade successfully completed about 5:30pm, 7/2.