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*Greetings...*

*Please note the UIT scheduled maintenance outages during the Holiday 
Break, from Sunday December 27th – Thursday December 31st.
Information is also available here:
http://staff.computing.yorku.ca/uit-scheduled-maintenance-outages-sunday-december-27th-thursday-december-31st/
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*Sunday December 27th*
*9:00am-1:00pm:* *MOODLE* will be unavailable for upgrades.

*Tuesday December 29th*
*7:00am-8:30am:* During this period, the entire York campus network and 
all resources (wireless and wired) will be unavailable for 15-30 minutes 
while upgrade work is performed.

*7:00am-4:00pm:* During this period, there will be rolling outages 
across the campus network, affecting local network (wireless and wired) 
access from 15-30 minutes in any given Building. *The Data Centre and 
WOB are not impacted.*

*Accolade East Building:* During this period, the entire Building 
network, wired and wireless, Public Announce Systems (PAS) and Building 
Automation Systems (BAS) will be unavailable.

*8:30am-10:30am:* VFACAD will be unavailable. There will be no access to 
academic file shares and home directories.
*10:30am-12:30pm:*VFADMIN will be unavailable. There will be no access 
to administrative file shares and home directories.
During both these time periods, there will be no access to *WebFAS* 
applications, and logins to *Classrooms, Labs, Meeting Rooms* and some 
employee desktops may be impacted.

*Wednesday December 30th*
*7:00am-12:00pm(noon):* Steacie Building power shutdown for substation 
maintenance. The Data Centre will run on the generator and NOT be 
impacted. *There will be NO power in Steacie office areas or Library.*

*7:00am-10:00am:* During this period, there will be rolling outages 
across *Glendon* campus and *ALL York Residence Buildings*, affecting 
local network (wireless and wired) access from 15-30 minutes in any 
given Building.

*7:00am-4:00pm:* During this period, there will be rolling outages 
across the campus, affecting local network (wireless and wired) access 
from 15-30 minutes in any given Building. *The Data Cente and WOB are 
not impacted.*

*Scott Library & Curtis Building:* During this period, the entire 
Library and Curtis Building networks, wired and wireless, Public 
Announce Systems (PAS) and Building Automation Systems (BAS) will be 
unavailable.

*12:00pm(noon)-10:00pm:* *Passport York* will be unavailable. There will 
be *NO* access to most Passport York authenticated systems including 
MOODLE, Google Apps at York,  central WordPress updates, Student 
Information Systems (SIS) applications (except MyFile, Yu-verify, CDM, 
APY, DVD ordering and WebFAS SIS staff applications).

*Thursday December 31st*
*7:00am-4:00pm:* During this period, there will be rolling outages 
across the campus, affecting local network (wireless and wired) access 
from15-30 minutes in any given location. *The Data Cente and WOB are not 
impacted.*

*Ross North Building:* During this period, the entire Building network, 
wired and wireless, Public Announce Systems (PAS) and Building 
Automation Systems (BAS) will be unavailable.

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