What

IT Services will be carrying out maintenance work on most of the servers supporting our central computing services.

All CFS services will be affected by this work and unavailable whilst it takes place - this includes

• Access to shared departmental X and personal Z drives
• Staff and Student PCs
• The Connect Service
• Blackboard
• Integrated Research Information System (IRIS)
• The SQL server cluster
• WADS (Web Accessible Database Service)
• The Charged Printing Service
• The Wireless and Remote Printing (WARP) Service
• The Streaming Media Service.

Why

Every month Microsoft release critical security patches to address vulnerabilities in their products. We need to apply these patches to ensure our services and the data stored on them are secure and safe from attack.

When

This work will take place on Thursday 19 January 6:30pm to 9:30pm, during the regular 'systems at-risk' window.

I have further questions, who should I contact?

Please contact the IT Service Desk, tel: 0116 252 2253 or email:  ithelp@le.ac.uk.