November Updates & December Outages for Oracle Financial Applications

November 19, 2015

IE 11 Settings for Oracle Financial Applications

Starting the week of November 16th, Microsoft browsers older than Internet Explorer 11 will be upgraded to Internet Explorer 11 on all Windows computers requiring it. HUIT ESM will deploy this upgrade via the LANDesk process and will also make the installer available in the Self-Service Portal. Oracle Financials was updated to be compatible with the IE 11 browser during our FINDINI 4.0.8 release which was implemented into Production on October 26th.  Please review the following job aid to ensure when using the IE11 browser with Oracle Financials that you have the appropriate browser settings.

http://fss.finance.harvard.edu/files/fss/files/ie11_settings_for_oracle_job_aid.pdf

November Outages for Oracle Financials Systems

November 21/22 - Oracle Financials will be unavailable as we execute the Workflow Notification Cleanup Initiative. This initiative is a small subset of our application archive and purge strategy.

Financial systems that will not be able to be accessed during this time include Accounts Payable, Accounts Payable Adjustment Form for Assets, Accounts Receivable, Bottomline, CAPS, Cash Management (CRMA), Chart Security Maintenance Application (CSMA), CoA Validator, Collections, FED EX, General Ledger, GL Validator, Harvard Oracle Assets, HCOM, iProcurement, iReceivables, PCard, Vendor Request, Web ADI, and Web Reimbursement.

Upcoming December System Outages for Oracle Financials Systems - FINDINI 4.0.8.2 Release

The University's Financial systems will be unavailable from 6:00pm on Friday, December 18th until 6:00am on Monday, December 21st to accommodate the scheduled FINDINI 4.0.8.2 release.  This minor release consists of a few technical patches, just released by Oracle, needed to make Oracle EBS compatible with SHA-2 SSL technologies. This release is needed prior to January 1st in order to comply with Security regulations and to avoid further browser issues that require SHA-2 SSL as of 1/1/2016.  Financial systems that will be offline during this time include Accounts Payable, Accounts Payable Adjustment Form for Assets, Accounts Receivable, Bottomline, CAPS, Cash Management (CRMA), Chart Security Maintenance Application (CSMA), CoA Validator, Collections, FED EX, General Ledger, GL Validator, Harvard Oracle Assets, HCOM, iProcurement, iReceivables, PCard, Vendor Request, Web ADI, and Web Reimbursement. Also, the CPATH (Capital Planning at Harvard) environment will also be offline during this same time line for similar software patching needs.

Oracle Financials desktop standards can be found on site http://huit.harvard.edu/pages/computer-standards under the Enterprise Application Supported Desktop Configurations section. These desktop standards will be updated for the December 18th release.  Further helpful tips can be found on site http://fss.finance.harvard.edu/popular-resources including http://fss.finance.harvard.edu/files/fss/files/ie11_settings_for_oracle_job_aid.pdf

For questions please contact the HUIT Service Desk at ithelp@harvard.edu or call them at 6-2001.