Schedule Outage: PowerFAIDS

This outage only affects staff in Financial Aid.

PowerFAIDS will be upgraded from version 25.1 to 25.2 on Tuesday Morning, Feb 11.

The server upgrade will start at 7AM on Feb 11. The server upgrade should be completed in twenty minutes.

Users will have to use the new PowerFAIDS 25.2 client to connect to the upgraded server.

The upgrade includes:

  • Official 2020-2021 Pell Grant Payment and Disbursement Schedules
  • Support for the 2020-2021 College Financing Plan (CFP) in PowerFAIDS and Net Partner Student
  • Enhanced Batch Wizard Ability to Adjust Awards to Zero
  • Creating Student Records in Outside Systems Using an API

Scheduled: Outage of P, G, Z drives

Update 1/4/19 @ 12:30PM: Upgrade has been completed.

Information Systems will be upgrading the file storage server that hosts the P, G, and Z network drives beginning Friday, January 3 at 7:00 pm through 9 am Saturday, January 4.  Because of the unavailability of these drives, logging into workstations on campus will be difficult or impossible during this outage.  This upgrade is critical to address security issues.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact the Information Systems Helpdesk: helpdesk@emu.edu or 540.432.4357.

Scheduled: myEMU & J1

Monday, December 23, 7 AM until 1 PM is a scheduled information system outage for the Student Information System (Jenzabar J1) and myEMU. EMU will be installing a year-end update. J1 will be unavailable during this time; myEMU will have limited functionality.

We expect to have myEMU available by 10 AM.

This outage is for J1 and myEMU. EMU payment processing (CashNET) is dependent on J1 and myEMU and will be down some during the J1 outage. Other systems should not be affected.

If you use the J1 client, please quit the client before you leave work for break. If the client is running during the upgrade, you may need to restart your computer after the upgrade for J1 to work correctly.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact the Information Systems Helpdesk: helpdesk@emu.edu or 540.432.4357.

This update is crucial so that EMU can correctly figure taxes and pay employees in 2020. It is also necessary so that EMU can issue W2, 1095C, and 1098T reports in January.

We are sorry for the disruption on December 23rd, but we must update J1 before next year.
We will try to minimize the amount of time the system is down. Our goal is to minimize disruption for faculty, staff, and students.

Update: 10 AM: MyEMU is now available, we are still working on J1
Update: 11:30 AM: J1 is available for use, but IS is continuing to examine the system and correct any problems we find