What are planned outages?
Planned outages are strategically scheduled times when services are unavailable in order to perform changes, upgrades, maintenance and repairs.
Planned outages often occur between the hours of 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. This standardized time period, where enterprise technology activity is generally at low levels, is known as a "maintenance window". The purpose of having a standard maintenance window is to allow you to prepare for possible disruption or change.
DoTS takes campus events into account when scheduling planned outages. We typically do not schedule them during registration, the first or last weeks of a term, finals, grading periods, or other significant campus events/dates.
DoTS staff publish upcoming planned outages to campus IT systems, use the steps below to subscribe to these notifications in your inbox to stay in the know.
Benefits
- Improves reliability and performance of services
- Reduces the chance of a major incident (unplanned outage) occurring, which seem to happen at inopportune times
- Scheduled to cause as little inconvenience as possible and few are likely to notice
- Communicated so that you can better plan around the outage
To Subscribe to Campus Outages
- Join the "Campus Outages Subscribers" M365 group by following the link here: https://outlook.office365.com/owa/CampusOutagesSubscribe@uwrf.onmicrosoft.com/groupsubscription.ashx?action=join&source=LokiServer&guid=e815b291-f082-4c75-9429-1fa0cba7c5d6
- You will automatically receive email notifications in your inbox of upcoming campus outages.
If you are an external user (do not have a UWRF account) and would like to subscribe to campus outage notifications, please email dots@uwrf.edu with your request.
To Unsubscribe from Campus Outages
NOTE: DoTS staff and student staff are automatically subscribed to the campus-outages group, and cannot unsubscribe.
- Open the "Campus Outages Subscribers" group here: https://outlook.office365.com/groups/uwrf.onmicrosoft.com/CampusOutagesSubscribe/mail/inbox
- Click the "Gear" icon in the upper right corner of the screen
- Click "Leave Group" to unsubscribe