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HRIS, KSIS, and DARS maintenance scheduled for July 11

HRIS, KSIS, and DARS will be unavailable from midnight – 4 a.m. on Sunday, July 11. Maintenance will be performed on the Oracle PeopleSoft systems. This maintenance will keep the system secure and up to date. Once applied, the systems will be brought back up for your use. Thank you for your patience as we work to maintain our IT systems.

IT Update: June 2021

The Division of Information Technology staff are heating up with the summer and preparing for the upcoming academic year, including upgrading and maintaining buildings and rooms, updating systems, revising documentation, hiring staff, and even retiring some services.

Spring/summer cleaning might be in order. This is the time to follow university procedures regarding retention schedules and dispose of documentation, media, and equipment appropriately.

Reminders:

  • Beginning July 5, all Zoom recordings older than 180 days (Jan. 4, 2021, or older) will be automatically moved to Zoom Trash.
  • After August 1, IT will no longer retain any course content data from K-State Online, the homegrown Learning Management System, used from 2008-2013 and retired in 2016.
  • On August 31, K-State’s existing personal webpage service will be retired. Faculty and staff can publish business-related content on their academic or administrative unit’s presence within the Content Management System (CMS).

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HRIS, KSIS, and DARS maintenance scheduled for June 6

HRIS, KSIS, and DARS will be unavailable from midnight – 4 a.m. on June 6. Maintenance will be performed on the Oracle PeopleSoft systems. This maintenance will keep the system secure and up to date. Once applied, the systems will be brought back up for your use. Thank you for your patience as we work to maintain our IT systems.

IT Update: May 2021

In May, the Division of Information Technology celebrates our student employees who are graduating and our retiring staff. We also prepare for the next academic year. Some of our projects are provided below.

Networking Projects

    • McCain Auditorium Expansion
    • Athletics – South Endzone expansion
    • Internet fiber re-route
    • New fiber-to-core paths to National Gas Machinery Lab and Institute of Environmental Research

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HRIS, KSIS, and DARS maintenance scheduled for May 9

HRIS, KSIS, and DARS will be unavailable from midnight – 4 a.m. on May 9. Maintenance will be performed on the Oracle PeopleSoft systems. This maintenance will keep the system secure and up to date. Once applied, the systems will be brought back up for your use. Thank you for your patience as we work to maintain our IT systems.

HRIS, KSIS, and DARS maintenance scheduled for April 11

HRIS, KSIS, and DARS will be unavailable from midnight – 4 a.m. April 11. Maintenance will be performed on the Oracle PeopleSoft systems. This maintenance will keep the system secure and up to date. Once applied, the systems will be brought back up for your use. Thank you for your patience as we work to maintain our IT systems.

 

Network maintenance scheduled for 12:01 a.m. March 25

The Division of Information Technology will perform network maintenance on one of the fiber paths into the Manhattan campus from 12:01-6 a.m. on Thursday, March 25. The majority of the Manhattan, Olathe, and Polytechnic campuses will experience a brief outage in internet connectivity as traffic is directed to a secondary path.

The Manufacturing Learning Center, the National Gas Machinery Laboratory, and the Institute for Environmental Research Lab will experience an extended outage of up to three hours during the maintenance window. The maintenance will improve overall fiber plant design and connectivity to these three buildings.

When the fiber work is completed, there will be a second brief outage as internet traffic is re-directed to the primary path. To report issues after the maintenance is completed, submit a ticket via helpdesk@ksu.edu or send an email to network@ksu.edu. Thank you to campus for your patience as we continue improving our infrastructure.

Financial Information System upgrade is complete

The Financial Information System (FIS) upgrade is complete. This was a required upgrade to Oracle 19c and prepares FIS for a major upgrade that will occur later this fall.

Upgrading is an important step toward the Division of Information Technology (IT), achieving its goal of providing a modern, scalable network and computing infrastructure for K-State. To learn more, view K-State’s IT Strategic Plan.

FIS is the central accounting system utilized by KSU colleges, departments, and administrative units to process payment transactions, reporting, and manage grant post-awards.

Financial Information System upgrade begins 6 p.m. Friday

The Financial Information System (FIS) will be unavailable from 6 p.m. Friday, March 12, through Sunday afternoon, March 14. This is a required upgrade to Oracle 19c and will prepare the system for a major upgrade that will occur later this fall.

FIS is the central accounting system utilized by KSU colleges, departments, and administrative units to process payment transactions, reporting, and manage grant post-awards.

HRIS, KSIS, and DARS maintenance scheduled for March 14

HRIS, KSIS, and DARS will be unavailable from midnight – 4 a.m. March 14. Maintenance will be performed on the Oracle PeopleSoft systems. This maintenance will keep the system secure and up to date. Once applied, the systems will be brought back up for your use. Thank you for your patience as we work to maintain our IT systems.