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Tue 31 Aug - Network at Risk - Faraday area, southwest offices and Bailrigg House

There were short network outages in a few areas of campus during the Network at Risk period (0700 and 0900).

Mon 30 Aug - All systems ran without problems

Fri 27 Aug - All systems ran without problems

Thu 26 Aug - Online Assessments and Module Evaluations unavailable

Online Assessments and Module Evaluations will be unavailable for the morning of Thursday 26th August. This is to allow for the upgrade of the underlying software. The service will be back up and running by 2pm on Thursday. Any queries, please contact iss-service-desk@lancaster.ac.uk (ext 10987).

Wed 25 Aug - All systems ran without problems

Tue 24 Aug - Scammed Victim Scam

There is a new variant of an old email scam arriving in inboxes with the subject: "Scammed Victim". Delete and ignore the message. More Information

Mon 23 Aug - All systems ran without problems


Fri 20 Aug - All systems ran without problems

Thu 19 Aug - Graduate College PC Lab Maintenance

The PC Lab 132/133 in Graduate College were closed between 7.30am and 10.00am on 19/08/2010 while the Pinningtons contractors turned off the electricity supply for maintenance whilst they refurbishing the block.

Wed 18 Aug - LUVLE Systems Update

LUVLE will be inaccessible from 4 p.m. for approximately 45 minutes while systems are updated.

Tue 17 Aug - All systems ran without problems

Mon 16 Aug - All systems ran without problems


Fri 13 Aug - All systems ran without problems

Thu 12 Aug - All systems ran without problems

Wed 11 Aug - Emergency Network at Risk - ResNet and Chancellor's Wharf

Following the planned Network at Risk period on 10th August a further maintenance window was required to apply an emergency software update to network equipment around campus.

The update was applied at 06:00 and involved a network outage of around 5 minutes to ResNet, and some areas of South West Campus on Alexandra Park. Chancellor's Wharf required an 11 minute outage.

ISS apologises for the short notice of this work.

Tue 10 Aug - Network at Risk- most of campus

During the at risk period on 10th August software updates have applied to network equipment around campus. All buildings apart from Infolab will be affected for up to 5 minutes between 0700 and 0800 while updates are applied

Mon 09 Aug - All systems ran without problems


Sat 07 Aug - Network at Risk

Maintenance work was undertaken on the core network on Saturday 7th August.
There may be short (sub 5 minute) breaks to the following services.Agresso Services ,LUSI Services Including Postgraduate Admissions + DCE Summer Schools, Alumni Services, Facilities Services, Proclarity Timetabling Services, HR Services, Residences Service, Engineering Website, Libweb Library Website, SharePoint

Fri 06 Aug - All systems running without problems

Thu 05 Aug - All systems ran without problems

Wed 04 Aug - LUVLE Maintenance

On Wed 4th August LUVLE was down from 4 p.m. for approximately one hour for planned routine maintenance and system updates.

Tue 03 Aug - Gordon Manley Building: Network Disruption

The power supply to network equipment was replaced on Tuesday 3rd August between 07:00 and 08:30. This will cause disruption to the network, wireless and VOIP phones in the Gordon Manley building for the duration of the work.

Mon 02 Aug - All systems ran without problems


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