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.
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
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Wednesday mornings | Between 5.30am - 8.00am (AEST) |
All UniSQ systems and services. No maintenance will occur during the following times, unless critical:
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Thursday evenings |
Between 8.00pm - 12:00am (AEST) |
All systems and services may be impacted
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Friday mornings | Between 5.30am - 8.00am (AEST) |
All UniSQ systems and services. No maintenance will occur during the following times, unless critical:
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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 |
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Saturday July 1 Sunday July 2 |
5:00am to 5:00pm | |||||
Saturday December 16 to Sunday December 17 |
5:00am to 5:00pm |
* Learning and Teaching Systems are defined as:
- UConnect
- StudyDesk
- StaffDesk
- OpenDesk
- ePortfolio
- eLOR
- Library Services
- Zoom
Note: System Owner 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 |
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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.