Every year, we agree a schedule of IT maintenance weekends to carry out essential systems upgrades and to run tests. This work is done during weekend periods to minimise disruption as much as possible to teaching activities.
During maintenance weekends, disruption to IT services is expected on site, including access to some of our systems, Wi-Fi and printing. However, students will continue to be able to access key cloud-based services such as Microsoft 365 (including email) and Blackboard remotely.
When will maintenance weeks happen?
The following section sets out the schedule of maintenance weekends taking place this academic year, and their expected impact.
Semester 1
- Saturday 11 October: Network Core upgrade. No network services.
- Sunday 12 October: Monitoring, services at risk.
- Saturday 25 October: Datacentre failover, services at risk. Maintenance begins at 6:00 pm on Friday evening.
- Sunday 26 October: Datacentre failover, services at risk.
- Saturday 1 November: Network Core upgrade. No network services.
- Sunday 2 November: Network Core upgrade. No network services.
- Saturday 29 November: Network Firewall changes. No network services.
- Sunday 30 November: Network Firewall changes. No network services.
- Saturday 13 December: Network Core replacement. No network services.
- Sunday 14 December: Network Core replacement. No network services.
Semester 2
- Saturday 31 January: Network Core replacement. No network services.
- Sunday 1 February: Network Core replacement. No network services.
- Saturday 28 February: Network Core replacement. No network services.
- Sunday 1 March: Network Core replacement. No network services.
- Saturday 7 March: Network Core replacement. No network services.
- Sunday 8 March: Network Core replacement. No network services.
- Saturday 28 March: Infrastructure hardware upgrade. No network services.
- Sunday 29 March: Infrastructure hardware upgrade. No network services.
- Saturday 18 April: Infrastructure hardware upgrade. No network services.
- Sunday 19 April: Infrastructure hardware upgrade. No network services.
More information
If you have any questions, please contact the Student Centre.
