REMINDER – Scheduled Enterprise Downtime

REMINDER – Scheduled Enterprise Downtime

6:00 PM Friday, 7/11/2025 until 6:00 PM Sunday, 7/13/2025

Data Center Move

The system office will be relocating one of the enterprise data centers. Consequently, most services hosted by the enterprise will be impacted during this maintenance period.

Action Required

This downtime will impact several services and users. We strongly advise institutions to prepare for an extensive outage of enterprise services and inform their campus constituents accordingly.

Should you anticipate a significant conflict with this maintenance window at your institution, please notify your campus CIO. If you experience any issues accessing services after the maintenance period, please submit a service request through the Minnesota State Service Portal (servicedesk.minnstate.edu).

Impacted Services

The impact on services has been categorized into Partially Impacted, Impacted, and Non-Impacted services as detailed below.

Partially Impacted Services 

The following services are expected to be partially affected as described below:

1. StarID Self-Service (starid.minnstate.edu)

Most IAM (authentication) services and services that rely on StarID will be available, however, StarID Self Service will have limited functionality:

1. No new StarIDs will be created during the maintenance window.
2. Passwords may be updated unless verification through Social Security Number is necessary.
3. D2L Brightspace
4. Accounting/AP/AR
5. Administrative Financial Aid
6. ARSA
7. Bookstore
8. Communications
9. Curriculum Management
10. Equipment
11. eTranscript
12. FWM
13. HR
14. Payroll
15. Security Administration
16. Tuition Waiver
17. Class/Advisee Lists
18. Grading
19. Last Date of Attendance
20. Registration Edit Overrides
21. Courses and Registration
22. Academic Records
23. Financial Aid
24. Bills and Payments
25. Housing and Dining

D2L Brightspace users are able to access their accounts, although some features may be limited due to the ISRS interface being unavailable.

1. HR Employee Intake

Will impact newly hired employees who do not yet have a StarID.

1. Universal Application for Admissions

Users without a StarID before the maintenance window will be affected. The application should function normally for everyone else.

1. Scheduled Batch Jobs

Scheduled batch jobs will be paused during the maintenance window. They will resume their regular schedule once services are fully restored.

Impacted Services  

Impacted services will likely include, but are not limited to:

1. All ISRS Uniface and Web Screens and Reports
2. Employee Home (eServices for employees)
3. Faculty App
4. Student eServices
5. Finance, Marketplace, Purchasing
6. Financial Aid
7. D2L Brightspace interface to ISRS
8. EMS
9. LADE (Local Application Development Environment)
10. Organizational Maintenance
11. Program Navigator
12. REPL
13. SCUPPS
14. StarRez (Student Housing)
15. uAchieve/DARS

No Planned Outage  

The following services are anticipated to remain unaffected:

1. CMS Systems (Cascade Server)
2. Microsoft 365
3. Email
4. Calendars
5. OneDrive
6. Teams
7. Minnesota State Service Portal (servicedesk.minnstate.edu)
8. Minnesota State Public Website
9. Minnesota State SharePoint Sites
10. rSchool Today
11. StarID Admin Research Tool
12. Zoom

Questions?

Please email sysavail@minnstate.edu with questions about this announcement. A project manager or member of IT will be reviewing feedback and responding to inquiries.

This message can also be found on IT Connect.