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IT service alerts

Up-to-the-minute system announcements about University IT services.


Tuesday 29th May 2012 - Planned service work

08:00-10:00 Access to many Kent services requiring a Kent username and password will be interrupted for less than a minute during this time. Services include the following but is not a full list: Moodle, Student Portal, Student Data Sysem, List Manager (Sympa) and Online Journals.

08:00-10:00 PREVIEW-WWW sites on OIL should be considered 'at risk' whilst we rollout the latest version of the Pantheon web templating engine.

08:00-10:00 WWW.KENT.AC.UK (and other sites hosted on Castor) will be interrupted for up to 5 minutes during this period.


Thursday 31st May 2012 - Planned service work

08:00-09:00 http://WWW.KENT.AC.UK should be considered 'at risk' whilst we perform system work and rollout the latest version of the Pantheon web templating engine.

08:00-09:00 The STUDENT DATA SYSTEM, the ADMISSIONS SYSTEM (http://adm.kent.ac.uk) and the PASSWORD RESET system (http://account.kent.ac.uk/reset) will be 'at risk' during this time, although no interruption is expected.


Tuesday 12th June 2012 - Planned service work

08:00-10:00 PREVIEW-WWW sites on OIL should be considered 'at risk' whilst we rollout the latest version of the Pantheon web templating engine.


Thursday 14th June 2012 - Planned service work

08:00-09:00 http://WWW.KENT.AC.UK should be considered 'at risk' whilst we perform system work and rollout the latest version of the Pantheon web templating engine.


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