Scheduled interruptions of IT Services
Different types of interruptions and the periods scheduled for interruptions to services.
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IT Maintenance
IT Services works to minimise the impact of improvements, changes and maintenance.
Maintenance weekend dates
IT Service Status Hub
Keep up to date with all maintenance, incidents or unplanned interruptions. See details of what we are doing, when it will happen, and what the impact is. It's also customisable, so you can choose which systems and services you hear about.
IT Service Status HubEssential maintenance
There may be times where we need to carry out essential maintenance to ensure continued service and minimise disruptions to students and staff.
During these times, the overall IT system will operate as normal. However, particular services or portions of the network may be taken out of service so that security patches, operating system upgrades and bug fixes can be applied.
IT Services will keep you informed about what work we are carrying out and how it will affect you.
Maintenance weekends
Maintenance weekends involve the shutdown of all IT Services provisions to students and staff.
Dates of agreed maintenance weekends:
Exact dates to be announced May/June 2023.
Start |
Finish |
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December 2023 - TBC | |
March/April 2024 - TBC | |
December 2024 - TBC | |
March/April 2025 - TBC |
How maintenance weekends will affect you
During the shutdown weekends, there will be no centrally managed IT service.
This includes services such as:
- Blackboard
- myUWE
- wifi networks
- email systems
- electronic library databases and services
- all on-campus PC labs
- UWE Bristol eXternal Access (XA)
- UWE Bristol network (LAN).
Cloud services
Cloud-hosted services will mainly be unaffected, however, there may be some brief outages when you will be unable to log in.
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