From: sec-r03@ieee.org on behalf of George F McClure [galaxies@cfl.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:15 PM
To: r3-excom2007@IEEE.ORG; sec-r03@IEEE.ORG
Subject: Alert - IEEE BMS Cutover in Early August
In case you hadn't seen the following notice, it is repeated here.  The transition to the IEEE Business Management System will occur over the first weekend in August.  Some services may not be available to you then.
Regards,
George

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SOCIETY SENTINEL

31 July 2007 (2007-07-31) - Vol. 12, No. 14

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BMS MIGRATION AND POSSIBLE SERVICE DISRUPTIONS
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BMS MIGRATION AND POSSIBLE SERVICE DISRUPTIONS:  The final phases of work
for deployment of the new Business Management System will take place Friday
to Sunday, 3-5 August 2007.  During this period, the following will occur:

1.  Migration of all applications that use Web Accounts for authentication 
   - As a result, starting at 5 p.m. EDT on 3 August 2007, applications
such as myIEEE, on-line communities, Concentration Banking and other
volunteer password protected areas will experience planned, possibly
intermittent, service disruptions.  
   - Services such as join, renew, change profile, add services, web
account and shop will be unavailable during this period

2.  On 4 August 2007, IEEE Xplore is expected to be off-line beginning at 9
a.m. EDT for up to 15 hours, but not to exceed 24 hours 

3.  In addition, starting 30 July 2007, single article sales via IEEE
Xplore will be off-line in preparation for the migration weekend

4.  System testing and QA will continue immediately after these deployment
activities are completed
 
BMS is expected to launch as scheduled during the day on Monday, 6 August
2007.

As is the regular process for planned service disruptions, messages are
being placed on the appropriate opening pages of the affected applications. 

For Society and Technical Council volunteers, following is a sample of the
sites that may be unavailable for periods of time during the migration:
TAB Finance Operations
S/C Financial Statements
NIC proposals
Supporting documents for TAB and Committee agendas and meetings
TAB Presentation Library
Society Sentinel back issues


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Editors: Jayne F. Cerone (telephone: +1 732 562 3908;
 <MailTo:j.cerone@ieee.org >)
   John Wettlaufer (telephone: +1 732 465 7809;
 < MailTo:j.wettlaufer@ieee.org>)
         IEEE Technical Activities
         fax: +1 732 981 1769

George F McClure
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