Maintenance

We will be migrating the storage platform supporting several University websites and web services from 07:30 on Tuesday 17 November 2026.

University websites are expected to remain generally available during the maintenance. However, some functions that require content to be added or updated may be unavailable for approximately 90 minutes while the migration is completed.

This work will move website data onto a modern, fully supported platform, providing encrypted data storage and i...

REDCap will undergo planned maintenance from 08:30 on Monday 16 November 2026 to apply the latest software updates.

No service disruption is expected while the update is completed. However, the service should be considered at risk during the maintenance window.

This work will help ensure REDCap remains secure, reliable, up to date, and fully supported.

We will monitor the service following the update and take action if any issues arise.

Anatra HPC will undergo planned maintenance on Monday 16 November 2026 to upgrade its operating system and apply important maintenance and security updates.

Anatra will be unavailable for up to one day. During this time, users will be unable to access the cluster or submit new jobs. Running jobs may also be interrupted or fail and may need to be resubmitted.

Users should avoid submitting jobs that may still be running when the maintenance begins.

This essential maintenance will hel...

Anatra HPC will undergo planned maintenance on Monday 16 November 2026 to improve how memory is allocated to submitted jobs.

The cluster will remain available, although job submission may be briefly unavailable for up to a few minutes while the updated configuration is applied. Running jobs are not expected to be affected.

Following the change, jobs that do not specify their memory requirements will receive a default allocation based on the selected partition. Jobs that already requ...

We will be standardising version history settings across University SharePoint sites and OneDrive accounts from Tuesday 10 November 2026.

Following this change, SharePoint and OneDrive will retain up to 30 previous versions of each document for a maximum of 365 days. Older document versions outside these limits will be removed.

The latest version of each document will not be affected, and no service downtime is expected. Users will continue to access and edit files as normal.

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We are carrying out a further phase of our on-campus file storage migration from our existing systems to a new storage solution. This work may cause planned, temporary disruption to departmental research file storage.

During the maintenance windows, the following X Drive locations will be synchronised and may be unavailable from 07:30 for up to two hours:

• 9 November 2026: X:\Education\ResearchProjects
• 10 November 2026: X:\Maths\ResearchProjects
• 11 November 2026: X:\Man...

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