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ITS Maintenance Schedule – January 2026

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By: Jon Beers
December 22, 2025
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Friday January 2nd
Phone system migration

Saturday January 3rd 12:00 AM
Firewall software upgrades; brief interruptions as the traffic moves from the active firewall to the inactive firewall during reboots.

Tuesday January 6th

  • Azure Virtual Desktop Cutover to new virtual desktop set; downtime expected if you are actively using a desktop
  • Clearpass (Network Access Control system); no downtime expected

 

Wednesday January 7th

  • Minor configuration change to all wired networking devices; no downtime expected
  • Patching of our VMware servers; no downtime expected

 

Thursday January 8th 7:00 AM
Minor configuration change to all wired networking devices; no downtime expected

Friday January 9th 6:00 AM
Software upgrade on Classroom networking switches. Ten minutes of downtime is expected as the switches reboot.

Sunday January 11th 11:59PM - Monday January 12th 7:00 AM
Wireless networking software upgrade. This will be a rolling upgrade with 5-10 minutes of localized wireless outage while the wireless access points perform their upgrade and reboot.

Monday January 12th

  • 12:00 AM, software upgrade to our enterprise storage; no downtime is expected
  • 6:00 AM, Software upgrade on building wired networking switches. Ten minutes of downtime is expected as the switches reboot.
  • 2:00 PM, Software upgrade to our enterprise backup infrastructure. No user facing downtime.

 

Tuesday January 13th 6:00 AM
Software upgrade on the data center wired networking switches. Ten minutes of downtime is expected as the switches reboot.

Wednesday January 14th 6:00 AM

Software upgrade on the aggregation wired networking switches. Ten minutes of downtime is expected as the switches reboot.

Patching of our VMware servers; no downtime expected

Thursday January 15th 6:00 AM
Software upgrade on the core wired networking switches. Ten minutes of downtime is expected as the switches reboot.

 

Saturday January 17th 12:00 AM
Software maintenance will be performed on the University firewalls. While we do not anticipate any downtime related to this work, there may be brief interruptions in network connectivity during this time.

 

Check back for any updates to this schedule.

 

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