July 21, 2010       

IMb^™ Services Update             

PostalOne! Server Patching (July 25, 2010): The PostalOne! ^® production and Testing Environment for Mailers (TEM) application servers will have security patches applied during the scheduled maintenance window of 4:00 a.m. through 8:00 a.m. (CDT) on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The PostalOne! system (including FAST^® OPS web services) will be unavailable for internal and external users during this period.

Retirement of FAST Web Services (July 31, 2010): FAST Web Services (Mail.XML^® 4.0) will be retired on July 31, 2010. All customers have migrated to either FAST Mail.XML 8.0 or FAST Mail.XML 6.0.

Mail Data Quality Reports Outage (August 1, 2010):  Mail Data Quality Reports will be unavailable on Sunday, August 1, 2010, from 4:00 a.m. – 12 Noon (CDT) due to a system upgrade. There will be no additional outage/impact to the PostalOne! system.

FAST Release 14.3.0 and Scheduled Outages (August 15-16, 2010): FAST Release 14.3.0 will deploy to the production environment on Sunday, August 15, 2010. Updated release notes for FAST 14.3.0 are available on RIBBS^®>Site Index A-Z>FAST/Surface Visibility>Important Links>FAST Release Notes. The FAST Production system will not be available from 4:00 a.m. through 8:00 a.m. (CDT) on Sunday, August 15, 2010.  

FAST Release 14.3.0 deploy to the TEM on Monday, August 16, 2010. The FAST TEM system will not be available from 8:00 a.m. through 12 Noon (CDT) on Monday, August 16, 2010.