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Maintenance schedule

Scheduled System Maintenance 2023

Fixed Maintenance

The schedule below will detail the systems affected on fixed ICT Maintenance weekends for 2023.  Notification of systems impacted will be available approximately two weeks prior to each of the three listed maintenance dates below.  Standard notifications are sent to staff via an ICT Alert email and announcements are placed on UConnect for Staff and Students.

ICT Fixed maintenance dates are listed on the University important dates calendar.

For further information or questions regarding the schedule below contact the ICT Service Desk. 

Information on unplanned system disruptions and/or outages are available here. 

Weekly Maintenance

2023 Schedule: During the Tuesday evenings, Wednesday mornings, Thursday evenings and Friday mornings maintenance windows, various systems may be unavailable. Clients will be notified in the event that a major system outage exceeds the designated end time by 30 minutes.

There may at times be a need for preventative critical maintenance to be undertaken on a Saturday morning (outside of the schedule maintenance weekends as listed below) where there is a risk to systems performance and availability. Standard notification will be used via an ICT Alert and UConnect Announcements as required. 

Date   Time  Systems and services affected 
Tuesday evenings
Between 8.00pm - 12.00am (AEST) 

Staff and some student systems may be unavailable during this time, excluding Learning and Teaching Systems*.

No maintenance will occur during the following times, unless critical or emergency

  • Scheduled exam periods
Wednesday mornings Between 5.30am - 8.00am (AEST)

All UniSQ systems and services. No maintenance will occur during the following times, unless critical:

  • Scheduled exam periods
Thursday evenings
Between 8.00pm - 12:00am (AEST)

All systems and services may be impacted

No maintenance will occur during the following times, unless critical or emergency:

  • Scheduled exam periods
Friday mornings Between 5.30am - 8.00am (AEST)

All UniSQ systems and services. No maintenance will occur during the following times, unless critical:

  • Scheduled exam periods

ICT Services acknowledge that Orientation Week and the first two weeks a the start of each teaching period are critical times for the University.  Maintenance that may need to be undertaken during these weeks as identified in the important dates calendar will be raised and discussed internally to ICT Executive and the business as/if required to ensure minimal disruption.

Fixed Maintenance

Three fixed maintenance windows have been scheduled to enable major upgrades to ICT Systems and Services (e.g. Network) and Learning and Teaching systems (e.g. Studydesk).

Date Time            
Systems and Services Affected                  
Impact          
 2024

Saturday January 6

to

Sunday January 7

 5:00am to 5:00pm
    

 * Learning and Teaching Systems are defined as:

  • UConnect
  • StudyDesk
  • StaffDesk
  • OpenDesk 
  • ePortfolio
  • eLOR
  • Library Services
  • Zoom

Note: System Sponsor Requested Maintenance
Maintenance to systems that may have a limited user impact which has been requested by system owners undertaken outside normal maintenance windows.  The maintenance is negotiated with the system owner and communicated appropriately.

Date        
Time        

Systems and Services Affected        

Impact





Emergency Maintenance
Emergency maintenance windows as required for specific critical maintenance.  This may occur during business hours to address critical system issues.  These periods will be negotiated as required with business owners and stakeholders.