Students will not be able to access registration, pay statements and online bill payment on the Central Michigan University Portal this weekend.

Beginning Friday, the SAP Production system will be going offline for system upgrades.

“It’s going to start at 4 a.m. on Friday and should be back up by 8 a.m. on Tuesday,” said Duane Kleinhardt, Information Technology communications manager.

The system shutdown is taking place for routine upgrades.

Kleinhardt said SAP has updates and enhancements that come out once or twice a year. Because SAP is such a detailed system, he said, they need to take it offline to perform the updates.

During the shutdown, many aspects of the system will be unavailable.

“The outage will mean that Registration, Drop/Add, Course Search, Pay stubs, Change of address, online bill payment and any other SAP related applications accessed via Portal or any other interface will be unavailable,” the CMU Portal states.

Since the shutdown is for routine system upgrades, no major problems are anticipated, Kleinhardt said.

“It’s hard to tell what will be affected,” he said. “Anything affected by the SAP shutdown, you will receive a Web page stating it is shut down and when it will return.”

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