Scheduled: Papercut Upgrade 1/4/23 7:30AM-8:30AM

Copiers (PaperCut)

Update 1/4/23 8:15AM: Upgrade was successful, printing functionality restored.

Wednesday, January 4, 7:30AM to 8:30AM is a scheduled Information Systems outage for Papercut in order to perform a necessary upgrade. Papercut will be unavailable during this time, which will result in an outage of all network printing, copying, and scanning on the Harrisonburg campus. The Lancaster site will be unaffected.

If you have difficulty printing after the upgrade, please reboot your computer to trigger a restart of your Papercut client software.

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

Scheduled: myEMU & J1

myEMU, Student Information System (Jenzabar EX), Student Information System (SIS)

Status update:

3 PM J1, myEMU, and  CashNET are all available. 

  • Appstream has not yet been updated so one cannot use J1 there yet
  • There are still a number of technical issues, these issues primarily affect reports, views, and integrations. IS will continue to address these issues.

1 PM Both myEMU and J1 are available for use. Jenzabar has completed their work. The IS department is continuing work to make adjustments to accommodate the Jenzabar changes. If you have problems using J1, please create a heldesk ticket. This can be done be emailing helpdesk@emu.edu

11 AM JICS & CashNET are now available for use.

10 AM Making normal progress. We have completed changing the Jenzabar database structure. We are continuing with installing new software for myEMU, J1 Desktop, and J1 Web.

8 AM J1 & myEMU are down. Currently changing the structure of the Jenzabar database (Tables, views, stored procedures, …). Communication with all related applications have been halted as the database changes are made. This would include 25Live, CashNET, PowerFAIDS, Salesforce, and others.

7 AM CashNet, myEMU are currently available but will go down again at approximately 8AM Work is continuing on the database to prepare for running update scripts.

6:15 AM Volume snapshots in progress (CashNET, J1, MyEMU) all down

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There is a planned outage of the Student Information System (Jenzabar J1) on December 22nd from 7:00 AM to 3:00PM. myEMU will also be upgraded and will not be available 7:00 and until 1:00PM on December 22nd.

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. PowerFAIDS interface to J1 will not work during the upgrade. Other systems should not be affected.

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

We are are updating to J1 2022.2 at this time because it includes changes that are necessary for EMU to be able to issue: 1098 and 1099 forms in January and to meet other regulatory requirements.

Scheduled: SISDB Maintenance

Student Information System (Jenzabar EX), Student Information System (SIS)

6:12 AM Update: SQL Server has restarted. All services other than DBAmp and the Salesforce Backups database are now available. Ungoing work with configuring DBAmp will take several hours

DB Amp needs to be upgraded to continue transferring data from Salesforce to SQLServer. Other items relying on SQL Server (Jenzabar, PowerFAIDS, myEMU, …) will not work during the upgrade.

Upgrade will start at 6 AM11/24/2022 (Thanksgiving morning). Planned completion is 6:15AM on 11/24/2022.

11/15/22 Scheduled: TeamDynamix

Uncategorized

Update 11:00PM: Upgrade is complete

EMU Information Systems is switching from Jira Service Management to TeamDynamix for IT service management, including Helpdesk and SIS ticketing. All open tickets will be migrated to the new system, and requestors/participants of open tickets may receive an email from helpdesk@emu.edu alerting them of successful ticket migration. This email will also contain a reply token unique to a customer’s ticket in our new platform.

Scheduled: Papercut Upgrade

Copiers (PaperCut), Printing

Update 10/20/22 8:15AM: Upgrade is complete and all services have been restored

Thursday October 20, 6:00AM to 8:00AM is a scheduled information system outage for Papercut in order to perform a necessary upgrade.  Papercut will be unavailable during this time, which will result in an outage of all network printing, copying, and scanning on the Harrisonburg campus.  Lancaster campus will be unaffected.

If you have difficulty printing after the upgrade, please reboot your computer to trigger a restart of your Papercut client software.

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

Scheduled: myEMU & J1

myEMU, Student Information System (Jenzabar EX), Student Information System (SIS)

Updates:

1:30 PM Update complete. J1 working (EMU computers, RDS server, and appstream). myEMU working. CashNET working. Scheduled J1 jobs now on schedule.

10:45 AM Update is nearly complete. J1, myEMU, and CashNET are all working. Still testing scheduled jobs. Appstream is running the old J1 client software so cannot connect to the current database.

8:45 AM Update still in progress. myEMU available, CashNET still being tested but appears to be working, J1 available for interactive use. J1 scheduled jobs are not working. J1 on Appstream is not available.

7 AM Upgrade Still in progress DSU is now complete. You may receive a notice that J1 2022.1 has been installed on your machine as well as Patch 3. You may be able to connect to J1 with it. While the new software functions not all data in the database is finished being updated, so data in some places may not be correct.

8 AM MyEMU available, J1 update is still in progress, but you are welcome to use it. CashNET still needs to be updated. Permissions in J1 still need to be updated.

6 AM Upgrade proceeding normally. We have been running the Database Structure Update(DSU) for one hour. All activity in myEMU and J1 is restricted as the structure of the database is changed.

Original

Monday, Oct 10th at 4:15 AM until 1PM is a scheduled information system outage for the Student Information System (Jenzabar J1). myEMU will be unavailable for a shorter period from 4:30 AM until 10 AM. EMU will be upgrading Jenzabar One and myEMU. J1 will be unavailable during this time.

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

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

We are upgrading from Jenzabar 2021.3 to 2022.1 to fix bugs affecting registration and the business office.

Other features added by the 2022.1 upgrade include:

  • Increased functionality in the J1 Web product
  • Create Student Update process has improved performance
  • New gender and identity options
  • Pronoun tracking