NOTICE: Planned Maintenance Production Outage ‘ Saturday September 22nd.

During the morning of Saturday, September 22, a maintenance event will occur in the Production South Street Shrewsbury Data Center. This event will result in multiple services being offline as noted below. This is an expansion of a normal monthly maintenance window. It has been expanded due to the amount of work required and the estimated time to complete
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WHAT: All services housed in the production South Street Data Center will be unavailable.

WHEN: Saturday September 22, 2012 from 4:00 am until 12 noon.

WHY: Primarily UITS will be upgrading data storage software and introducing new equipment into the data center. These changes will provide enhanced performance and reliability for the applications in the data center.

IMPACT to SA Supported applications: From 4:00 am until noon on Saturday September 22, services in the Production, South Street, data center will be unavailable. This includes:

‘SA Production PeopleSoft (iSiS)
‘Parent Access (UShare)
‘u.achieve, u.select
‘R25 (BookIt)
‘RMS (Housing Gateway)
‘eMill
‘SharePoint(Workspaces)
‘E-mail to umassp.edu. We will not be able to respond to any e-mails for part or all of this downtime window.