Month: November 2022


Banner Upgrade – Sunday, Dec. 4

OIT will be implementing a Banner bundle upgrade on Sunday, Dec. 4 from 5:30am – 10 am. myBama and channels that connect to Banner will not be accessible, including self-service and administrative systems. For questions or concerns, contact the IT Service Desk at 205-348-5555 or itsd@ua.edu.


Banner Upgrade – Sunday, Dec. 18

OIT will be implementing a Banner bundle upgrade on Sunday, Dec. 18 from 4:00am – 10 am.  myBama and channels that connect to Banner will not be accessible, including self-service and administrative systems. For questions or concerns, contact the IT Service Desk at 205-348-5555 or itsd@ua.edu.


SAS 9.3 Reaching Limited Support

The analytics software SAS 9.3 will be moving to limited support in February 2023. As always, we encourage users to utilize the current version of software. Visit https://oit.ua.edu/software/sas-9-4/ to access the latest version and learn more about SAS.


Nov. 28 Service Outage Root Cause

On Monday, Nov. 28 at 1:45pm, a critical component supplying power to the Gordon Palmer data center failed.  All services within the data center abruptly shut down causing a widespread network and system outage. OIT implemented mitigation efforts to restore core services by 5:45pm. OIT reactivated equipment on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 9am to provide…


Windows 7 to be Restricted from UA Network

Beginning Monday, Jan. 16, Windows 7 devices will no longer be permitted to connect to the UA campus network. As a reminder, Windows 7 reached end of life on Jan. 14, 2020. All Windows devices should be running Windows 10 or Windows 11.