Dear Staff and Students,

In accordance with the scheduled maintenance window procedure the next maintenance event will occur on Saturday 15th November 2008.

ITD will be performing maintenance work between 4:30am and 5:45am. As a result of this ALL internet and the majority of network based university services WILL BE AVAILABLE during this period, with the exception of the following ;-

Blackboard LMS system -  4:30am to 5:15am

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, the following systems will be unavailable :-

Blackboard LMS system -  4:30am to 5:15am

Date – Saturday 15th November 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.

Finally please note that the next maintenance window will occur on Saturday December 20, 2008.

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