Vice President for Information Technology Doug Hurley announced today that on Friday morning, March 19, 2010 beginning at 3:00AM, the Banner Administrative system will be taken offline to apply the Banner 8 upgrade. This intensive upgrade is expected to take 3 full days (around the clock) to complete, with upgraded production services resuming the morning of Monday, March 22. During this period, staff from various offices as well as ITD will be working on the upgrade. All production administrative systems including Banner INB, Banner SSB (self service Banner), TigerBuy, TigerPay, Appworx, Workflow, Luminis (myMemphis) Channels for Banner, and Clean Address will be unavailable until the upgrade successfully completes.
If all goes well, only Friday will be impacted. If you decide to meet with students on Friday, March 19, you may want to make copies of their myMemphis transcript on Thursday and make notes concerning the Banner Upgrade in the advising file of these students, as you will not be able to access thier unofficial transcript during the upgrade processing.