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EIS 8.9 Upgrade Status Report
Portions of EIS Down over the Thanksgiving Holiday
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, Eagle Mail, 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.
PeopleSoft Financials 9.0 Upgrade - Milestones
| Start Date | End Date | |||||
| Prepare Technical Environment | 2/18/08 | 5/23/08 | ||||
| Project Startup | 3/3/08 | 12/16/08 | ||||
| Inventory Customizations | 3/3/08 | 9/15/08 | ||||
Maintenance Patches - application and tools
PeopleSoft Financials 9.0 Upgrade in
About the FS 9.0 UpgradeThe University of North Texas System is upgrading from PeopleSoft’s Financials 8.4 to version 9.0. This upgrade gives UNTS new and enhanced functionality and allows for continued support from Oracle/PeopleSoft of the Financials applications until 2012. The project is a collaborative effort between UNT and HSC administrative functional support areas and the Computing and Information Technology Center. The upgrade team consists of several CITC technical teams and functional area representatives. The functional areas for UNT and UNT System include those related to the Controllers Office and Financial Reporting, the Budget Office, Purchasing and Payment Services, Asset Services, and Research Services (Grants). For HSC, the areas involved are the Accounting Office, Financial Systems, Purchasing, Property Control, the Budget Office, and Grants and Contract Management. About the ProjectThe Financials 9.0 upgrade is scheduled to go live on March 17, 2009. Food and Beverages at Research Park in
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