Campus Computing News

EIS to be Upgraded Over Thanksgiving

By Maurice Leatherbury, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President for Computing and Chief Technology Officer

Some portions of EIS, the University's Enterprise Information System, will be upgraded over the Thanksgiving holiday to an enhanced version of the system's software. Beginning at noon on Wednesday, November 21st, the myUNT portal and the website myls.unt.edu will be unavailable until Monday, November 26th.

Some business processes that students, faculty and staff access through EIS will be out of service during this upgrade period:

• myls.unt.edu provides administrative functions in support of human resources, payroll, advancement and student administration.

• The myUNT portal provides self service capabilities for faculty and staff (human resources access, grading, etc.) and for students (financial aid, registration, grades, payments, etc.)

Services independent of myUNT, such as WebCT Vista, Eaglemail, and EIS Financials (myfs.unt.edu) www.unt.edu, and GroupWise will not be affected by the outage and will continue to be in service.

The early shutdown of these services is required to complete the lengthy upgrade tasks and to restore services by Monday. Many employees in the Computing and Information Technology Center as well as in Academic Affairs, the Graduate School, Finance and Administration, and Advancement, and their counterparts at UNT-HSC, will be working throughout the holiday period to complete the upgrade. We realize the shutdown of these services during normal business hours is an inconvenience and has some impact on operations in many areas. We also realize that there's never a good time to take a mission-critical service down for an extended period, but every effort was made to schedule the upgrade to minimize the impact on the whole UNT community. We appreciate your understanding and flexibility.

For more information regarding this scheduled system upgrade, go to http://eis.unt.edu/89upgrade. Also, from the Help Website for My UNT and EIS:
 

NEW: EIS 8.9 Upgrade Documentation for Administrators Please select from the following: EIS 8.9 Campus Overview Session User Manual for EIS 8.9 Navigation EIS 8.9 Student Center Documentation EIS 8.9 Navigation Crosswalk

This information was also reported in InHouse - Ed. 

 

Originally published, November 2007 -- Please note that information published in Benchmarks Online is likely to degrade over time, especially links to various Websites. To make sure you have the most current information on a specific topic, it may be best to search the UNT Website - http://www.unt.edu . You can also search Benchmarks Online - http://www.unt.edu/benchmarks/archives/back.htm as well as consult the UNT Helpdesk - http://www.unt.edu/helpdesk/ Questions and comments should be directed to benchmarks@unt.edu

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