Banner 8 News
Banner
8
is
LIVE!.
Instructions
for
new
features
are
available
under
Documentation
on
the
right.
Thanks
to
all
of
our
testers
over
the
past
months
who
helped
to
make
the
Banner
8
upgrade
a
success!
October
29,
2009
Searches for person records have changed in Banner 8, as noted in announcements and documentation. If you have an SSN you can enter it into the ID field for auto-population of the GID. If you get no response, then the SSN is not in Banner. In that case, simply do a person search as you did in the previous version. Changing the search function in this way protects our data from exposure of PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and is an important safeguard against identity theft.
October
26,
2009
Thanks
to
all
our
Acceptance
Testers!
Banner
8
is
a “GO” and
will
be
live
for
all
at
8:00am
on
Tuesday
October
27th.
October
25,
2009
This past weekend continued with great success. So far all updates and adjustments in our new EIS database have been successful. Testing has given great results so far.
October
23,
2009
Friday was a very productive day for our Database Administration Team. All Updates to our EIS system are going well for our Banner 8 Upgrade.
October
20,
2009
New documentation is continually being posted for Banner users. The communications plan is nearing completion following repeated and varying messages to faculty, staff, and students regarding the system outage, PIN changes, security questions, feature changes, and data connectivity requirements.
October
19,
2009
Reports and applications created ad hoc across the campuses that connect to Banner data, such as Access databases or Crystal reports, need to be updated by their developers in conjunction with the Banner upgrade. The Banner team has no way of knowing about these ad hoc applications, who developed them, or who uses them now. The communications team is attempting to locate them by broadcasting the need for report and application upgrades to any potential users and let them know they need to contact their report/application developers and direct them to the documentation provided to update the ad hoc systems.
October
15,
2009
New documentation has been posted to help users update their report writing connection to Banner 8. Files include instructions for installing the new Oracle 10.2 ODBC driver, troubleshooting the driver installation, and connecting Crystal Reports 2008 to Banner after the ODBC driver has been installed.
Watch for upcoming documentation on working with third-party data in conjunction with the new character set capabilities in Banner 8.
October
11,
2009
Documentation has been posted for most feature changes in Banner 8 scheduled to go live October 27th. Documentation on ODBC driver connections and UTF-8 character handling is in progress and should be posted this week.
October
9,
2009
The
EIS
Upgrade
Team,
having
resolved
all
major
issues,
has
unanimously
made
the
final
GO
decision
for
the
upgrade.
June
11,
2009
Along with normal testing, representatives from the four MSU campuses in the student module, financial aid module, and accounts receivable module gathered together this past June to test Banner 8. The campus teams completed an entire student lifecycle test, all went well.
January
14,
2009
MTLs support the deletion of the SSN as the alternate ID in Banner. The SSN search enhancement in Banner 8 for self Service will allow MSU to take advantage of this protection without inconveniencing anyone.
August
18,
2008
MSU joined the Ethnicity Census Focus Group by SunGard to help design the federally required census via self service in the Banner 8 upgrade. The MSU Team was Mary DeGraw, Deb Felkey, Linda Wham, Dawn Watkins, and Karen Maika.
April
18,
2008
SunGard Higher Education today released Banner 8.0. MSU has been awaiting this release in order to continue planning efforts for this important upgrade to the MSU EIS.
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