In accordance with the scheduled maintenance window procedure the next maintenance event will occur on Saturday, 20 September 2008.

ITD will be performing upgrades on key infrastructure leading to a full systems shutdown of all central University systems and services. This will occur between 06:00am and 11:00am. As a result of this ALL internet and network based university services will be unavailable during this period.

This event is one of a regular schedule of maintenance windows during which essential upgrades and maintenance improvements will be applied to University systems.

The schedule includes a major full day outage every quarter and a shorter outage every month. These are scheduled to take place on the third Saturday every month and quarterly in (Jan, Apr, Jul & Oct). Times may be varied to cater for important events such as residential schools and notices regarding the schedule of maintenance windows will be posted on the ITD Services Announcements web page before each scheduled window.

Please check the ITD service announcements web page regularly for information relating to ITD services and events.

To reiterate, for this scheduled maintenance window ALL web based and network services, including access to external web sites, will be unavailable.

Time – 6:00am to 11:00am

Date – Saturday 20 September 2008

Should you require any further information or wish to provide feedback in anyway please contact the service desk team on 02 6773 5000 or via servicedesk@une.edu.au.

We thank you for your co-operation and apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Brian Cameron
Director
Information Technology
University of New England
Armidale NSW 2351 Australia

With approval of Mr Adrian Robinson, Chief Operating Officer

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