All Staff and Students are advised that there will be a major IT outage 3 – 6 January 2012.
Following approval by the University Executive Group earlier this year‚ iSolutions together with Estate and Facilities will be undertaking essential work to ensure continued IT service provision by improving the backup power supply to our current Data Centre.
This will mean that many of the University’s core IT services and applications will be unavailable between the 3rd and 6th of January 2012.
In recognition of the level of disruption, a website has been created to communicate with all users of the University’s IT systems
www.soton.ac.uk/infrastructure
It is important that you check this site for information that it relevant to you. We also recognise that some colleagues may fail to pick up on this message, so please take any opportunity to pass the message on.
This website will be frequently updated and we will also remind you about this event in the weeks leading up to the Christmas break.
Please remember to plan ahead.
Please use the feedback form on the Website should you have any questions.