The University’s data centre will be undertaking essential electrical testing work over the winter break to ensure the safety of our staff, systems and data. This work requires a complete shutdown of some of our systems for a short period, and access to our buildings will also be restricted to essential use only during this time.?

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Key information??

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• The majority of our systems will be fully operational until 07:00 Wednesday 27 December, with a few select systems and High-Performance Computers offline from 16:00 Thursday 21 December.?
• All our cloud-based systems, such as Teams, email, OneDrive and SharePoint, will remain operational throughout the period, as will Wi-Fi.??
• If a system is not on this list, please assume it will not be available from 07:00 Wednesday 27 December to 18:00 Monday 1 January.?
• As per our usual process, from 18:00 21 December 2023 to 06:00 2 January 2024, access to our campus buildings will be closed and restricted to essential entry only.?

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Additional Support??

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Please visit the Data Centre SharePoint site, where you will find a complete list of the systems that will be available and FAQs. If you still have questions, please get in touch with the Data Centre project team at outage23@soton.ac.uk.??