IT Network Maintenance - Thursday 29 July

IT Network Maintenance - Thursday 29 July

IT Network Maintenance - Thursday 29 July

What is happening?

There are two major IT maintenance items taking place on Thursday 29 July that may impact you.

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Gateway Router 12.30pm1.30pm

There will be short network outages,
potentially up to 10 minutes.

 

The outages may affect staff at Old Aberdeen and Foresterhill as well as remote IT system connectivity.

 

What should you do?

Please you save your work regularly during this time period.

 

VPN Service sma.abdn.ac.uk6pm3am

VPN service sma.abdn.ac.uk will be undergoing maintenance

 

During this period, the VPN service will be unavailable entirely. 

 

Established connections will disconnect from 6pm and any attempted connections during the process may fail or intermittently disconnect

 

What should you do

We recommend that you disconnect from the VPN before 6pm and do not try to use the service again until Friday 30 July

Why is this happening?

This planned maintenance is to make changes related to core network connectivity.  The changes are part of replacement of the University core network that is nearing completion.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.