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Administrative System Maintenance (Banner, Web4U) This Weekend

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Details about Administrative System Maintenance (Banner, Web4U) This Weekend

To perform a necessary production upgrade, the following systems will be unavailable Friday, February 7, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. until Sunday, February 9, at 5:00 p.m.:

  • Registration and Waitlisting
  • Web4U (All Banner Self-Service features in WWIS)
  • Banner 9 AdminPages
  • Banner Workflow (WWIS)
  • Banner and administrative systems password changes
  • Esign Administrative Web Forms
  • eInvoice
  • Transact Cashnet connector and lookup
  • DataTransfer
  • DegreeWorks
  • Campus Directory
  • Millennium-FAST
  • Western Marketplace

All scheduled jobs that interact with the database server will be halted Friday, February 7, 2025, from 5:00 p.m. until Sunday, February 9, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. These include the Data warehouse refreshes, job submission chains, and most interfaces to 3rd party systems. These jobs will resume their regular schedules when the system is returned to service. 

ACTION REQUIRED:

Please close out of the systems listed above before the time stated.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Services that will still be available will include the following:

  • Microsoft 365 apps (e.g., Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint)
  • Canvas learning management system
  • myWestern
  • Virtual Private Network (VPN)
  • University and departmental web pages
  • PageUp talent management system
  • Student Health Services
  • Library OneSearch search engine
  • Housing and Dining services
  • Viking Union Events Management
  • AiM /ReADY facility and asset management
  • ESM Contract Management Module (CMM)

Banner and anything using the WWIS database instance will be unavailable.  For additional information about these upgrades, please contact the Help Desk by replying to this message or calling 360.650.3333.

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