Planned outages

A regular weekly maintenance window exists to allow periodic preventative work to be undertaken on the University's IT systems. This time also allows minor updates and changes to be made to systems.

In addition, quarterly maintenance weekends have been identified to allow more significant and disruptive activities that require greater time to occur.

It should be assumed that no systems will be available during both weekly and quarterly maintenance periods.

Occasionally additional periods of service outage may be arranged to implement significant changes to systems within additional time constraints. These periods will be negotiated and announced to the University community.

Maintenance windows (weekly)

• Tuesday 4–8am
• Friday 4–8am

Maintenance windows (periodic)

In 2024 the remaining negotiated weekend maintenance windows are as follows:

• 25–28 October (Friday 5pm–Monday 8am)
• 15–18 November (Friday 5pm–Monday 8am)
• 29 Nov–2 December (Friday 5pm–Monday 8am) 

In 2025 the negotiated weekend maintenance windows are as follows:

• 14–17 February (Friday 5pm–Monday 8am)
• 11–14 April (Friday 5pm–Monday 8am)
• 30 May–2 June (Friday 5pm–Monday 8am)
• 20 June–23 June (Friday 5pm–Monday 8am)
• 11–14 July (Friday 5pm–Monday 8am)
• 29 August–1 September (Friday 5pm–Monday 8am)
• 26–29 September (Friday 5pm–Monday 8am)
• 14–17 November (Friday 5pm–Monday 8am)
• 28 November–1 December (Friday 5pm–Monday 8am)

In 2026 the negotiated weekend maintenance windows are as follows:

• 13–16 February (Friday 5pm–Monday 8am)

Please note: While these dates reflect the Saturday and Sunday of the outage weekend, the outage may commence from close of business on the Friday preceding and/or conclude prior to the commencement of business on the Monday following.

If you have any enquiries regarding this notification please contact IT Services.