High-Level Timeline
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Now
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thru the end of October - Plan, convert/create/update test scripts in QC, move pending support & project work into production
10/11/2012 – SAP release of year end base level support pack
10/20-21/2012 – Production outage; DB & OS upgrade
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Day
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Start
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End
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Task
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Area Responsible
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10/20 Saturday
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1:30am
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7:00am
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System Backups
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OIS
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10/20 Saturday
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7:00am
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11:00am
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Oracle Upgrade
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R3-Admin
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10/20 Saturday
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7:00am
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10/21 Sunday 1:00am
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Linux System Upgrade
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OIS
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10/21 Sunday
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1:00am
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8:00am
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Post Linux Upgrade SAP Processing
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R3-Admin
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10/21 Sunday
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8:00am
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9:00am
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Production Validation
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Admin Systems, Tech Services
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10/21 Sunday
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9:00am
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System Opened up to the MIT Community
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R3-Admin
10/22/2012 - End of day production snapshot to be used to refresh test environments
10/22/2012 - Development Freeze begins
11/01/2012 - Last date to implement support & enhancement changes until freeze ends on 12/5/2012
10/26/2012 - 11/2/2012 Unit test
11/5/2012 - 11/27/2012 System Integration Test
12/1/2012 - 12/2/2012 Go-live weekend!
12/5/2012 - Development Freeze ends