Scheduled maintenance

IT Scheduled Maintenance

The goal of Scheduled Maintenance is to maintain central IT facilities on a regular basis while minimising interruption to normal business functions, and also considering vital operations in the University calendar such as enrolments, teaching, examinations and graduation.

Unless otherwise noted, all regular Scheduled Maintenance windows begin at 6:00pm and conclude the following day at 8:00am. If there are any exceptions to these times they will be communicated prior to the date.

Times are presented in AEST/AEDT.

These dates have been discussed with all relevant parties.

Notes

  • Disaster Recovery (DR): DR exercises are essential for risk mitigation and ensure our IT infrastructure and processes will remain operational in the event of a disaster.
  • Security Patching: Every Thursday from 5:00am-7:00am Security Patching of core infrastructure will be conducted. There may be short outages to systems during this window.

Approved 2023 dates 


Autumn Session 2023

Date Maintenance
Saturday 4 February

6pm Saturday - 8am Sunday

To ensure the ongoing protection of UOW systems, IMTS will be applying the latest security and application updates. There will be intermittent outages to the majority of services during this time.

Main focus:
- Database patching
- Server patching

Saturday 11 February

6pm Saturday - 8am Sunday

To ensure the ongoing protection of UOW systems, IMTS will be applying the latest security and application updates. There will be intermittent outages to the majority of services during this time.

Main focus:
- Database patching
- Server patching

Saturday 18 February

6pm Saturday - 8am Sunday

To ensure the ongoing protection of UOW systems, IMTS will be applying the latest security and application updates. There will be intermittent outages to the majority of services during this time.

Main focus:
- Database patching
- Server patching

Saturday 11 March

6pm Saturday - 8am Sunday

To ensure the ongoing protection of UOW systems, IMTS will be applying the latest security and application updates. There will be intermittent outages to the majority of services during this time.

Main focus:
- Database patching
- Server patching

Saturday 18 March

6pm Saturday - 8am Sunday

To ensure the ongoing protection of UOW systems, IMTS will be applying the latest security and application updates. There will be intermittent outages to the majority of services during this time.

Main focus:
- Database patching
- Server patching

Saturday 25 March

6pm Saturday - 8am Sunday

To ensure the ongoing protection of UOW systems, IMTS will be applying the latest security and application updates. There will be intermittent outages to the majority of services during this time.

Main focus:
- Database patching
- Server patching

Saturday 15 April

6pm Saturday - 8am Sunday

To ensure the ongoing protection of UOW systems, IMTS will be applying the latest security and application updates. There will be intermittent outages to the majority of services during this time.

Main focus:
- Database patching
- Server patching

Saturday 29 April

6pm Saturday - 8am Sunday

To ensure the ongoing protection of UOW systems, IMTS will be applying the latest security and application updates. There will be intermittent outages to the majority of services during this time.

Main focus:
- Database patching
- Server patching

Saturday 13 May

6pm Saturday - 8am Sunday

To ensure the ongoing protection of UOW systems, IMTS will be applying the latest security and application updates. There will be intermittent outages to the majority of services during this time.

Main focus:
- Database patching
- Server patching

Saturday 27 May

6pm Saturday - 8am Sunday

To ensure the ongoing protection of UOW systems, IMTS will be applying the latest security and application updates. There will be intermittent outages to the majority of services during this time.

Main focus:
- Database patching
- Server patching

IMTS will be performing network tests during this scheduled maintenance window.  There may be intermittent disruptions to datacentre services during the maintenance window.

Saturday 24 June

6pm Saturday - 8am Sunday

To ensure the ongoing protection of UOW systems, IMTS will be applying the latest security and application updates. There will be intermittent outages to the majority of services during this time.

Main focus:
- Database patching
- Server patching

Saturday 15 July

6pm Saturday - 8am Sunday

To ensure the ongoing protection of UOW systems, IMTS will be applying the latest security and application updates. There will be intermittent outages to the majority of services during this time.

Main focus:
- Database patching
- Server patching

Saturday 22 July

6pm Saturday - 8am Sunday

To ensure the ongoing protection of UOW systems, IMTS will be applying the latest security and application updates. There will be intermittent outages to the majority of services during this time.

Main focus:
- Database patching
- Server patching

Spring Session 2023

Date Maintenance
Saturday 12 August  
Saturday 19 August  
Saturday 26 August  
Saturday 16 September  
Saturday 30 September  
Saturday 14 October  
Saturday 21 October  
Saturday 28 October  
Saturday 18 November  

Summer Session 2023/2024

Date Maintenance
Saturday 2 December DR Exercise - Full outage
6AM - Midnight
Saturday 16 December  
Wednesday 20 December Moodle upgrade to new version
Saturday 13 January  
Saturday 20 January  
Saturday 27 January  
Saturday 3 February  
Saturday 17 February  
Saturday 24 February  


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