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We’ve extended the Call for Proposals deadline until 11:59 p.m. ET, on Friday, December 17, 2021.

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Work Continues to Progress with Banner 9 Self Service

In June of 2017, Miami began an epic journey to upgrade our ERP system (Banner) from version 8 to version 9. This is one of the largest system upgrade endeavors we have ever undertaken, and in fact, it is still continuing today.

A giant piece of the Banner 9 puzzle was completed in June 2018 when the final Admin module went live into production. The next phase was to implement the “self-service” part of Banner, a project that is currently in process. This is the part of Banner that many of us interact with currently through BannerWeb. There are multiple individual modules for Self Service Banner 9 (SSB 9) that are being implemented. All of those modules have been in Miami University’s Banner development and test environments for some time.

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Banner Deployments to AWS

IT Services will be doing some prep work for having Banner 9 in Amazon Web Services (AWS) this weekend during our Banner upgrade defined window. If you are working in Banner 9 between 12:01 am – 10 am Sunday morning, June 23, you may experience a brief outage. This won’t affect any automated jobs running in the background.

March 28 Banner Upgrade

To finish the move to the new Banner 9 Admin servers and make Banner 9 Admin work from MU-WIRELESS, IT Services needs re-point the on-campus DNS. This change will occur on Thursday, March 28 at 7:00 am. The change will take about 10 minutes to take effect, and can be backed out in 10 minutes as well.

We are asking users to please test the change at about 7:15 am on Thursday and post in #banner on Slack (or email Jeff Toaddy, if you don’t use Slack). If anything goes wrong with the update we will try to fix it until about 7:40 am, at which time we will decide to revert and it should be back to normal by 8:00 am.

January 11, 2019 Update

Here is the latest update from the Banner 9 project.

The majority of Banner 8 Admin was disabled on December 21, 2018. Banner General Admin and a few select forms continue to be available to work around specific bugs in the Banner 9 versions of those components. Those remaining components will be disabled as those bugs are resolved in Banner 9.

For the Self-Service modules, work is continuing on the pieces that are available from Ellucian.

  • General Event Management – Is installed and configured in DEVL and TEST, but a couple of bugs are preventing it from being moved to PROD.
  • Journal Voucher – Betta kickoff began on August 21 and testing continues in DEVL and TEST.
  • FinAid and A/R – Due from Ellucian in 2019 Q3.

The work on disaster recovery is continuing, with the Go Live date more than likely occurring sometime in January or February 2019.

November 14 Update

Here is the latest update from the Banner 9 project.

All seven of the Admin modules have been completed and are in Production. Only two of those modules are also running Banner 8 (General and Student). EMSS has agreed to disable access to the Student and General modules (with the exception of one or two forms) on the weekend of December 8/9.

The Application Navigator was upgraded to version 3 in PROD on November 11. This relocates the menus and makes other light interface changes.

For the Self-Service modules, work is continuing on the pieces that are available from Ellucian.

  • General Event Management – Is installed and configured in DEVL and TEST, but a couple of bugs are preventing it from being moved to PROD.
  • Journal Voucher – Betta kickoff began on August 21 and testing continues in DEVL and TEST.

The work on disaster recovery is continuing, with the Go Live date more than likely occurring sometime in January 2019.

 

Menu Changes in Banner 9

IT Services will be applying a routine upgrade to Banner’s Admin interface on Sunday morning, November 11. The upgrade introduces some new navigation menus and moves buttons from the top to the left side of the page. We expect no changes to the pages themselves.

The list of Banner modules and pages will now be located under the “Application” button in the menu.

If you have any questions, please contact your normal Banner support person.

October 31 Update

Here is the latest update from the Banner 9 project.

All seven of the Admin modules have been completed and are in Production. Only two of those modules are also running Banner 8 (General and Student). The cut-off date for Banner 8 for those two modules is December 31.

The Application Navigator has been upgraded to version 3 in DEVL and TEST. This relocates the menus and makes other light interface changes. This is planned for PROD on November 11.

For the Self-Service modules, work is continuing on the pieces that are available from Ellucian.

  • General Event Management – Is installed and configured in DEVL and TEST, but a couple of bugs are preventing it from being moved to PROD.
  • Journal Voucher – Betta kickoff began on August 21 and testing continues in DEVL and TEST.

The work on disaster recovery is continuing, with the Go Live date more than likely occurring later this month.