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Link products availability 18 – 19 March

We’ll be deploying system and security updates to our IT infrastructure hosted with Amazon Web Services from Friday 18 March to Saturday 19 March.

Posted Wed 9 March 2016

We’re working on a new approach to planned maintenance, which is expected to minimise downtime to our services. This means that at times, whilst the link products (odbc-link, web-link and xml-link) will remain available, you may become disconnected.

You won’t be able to send or receive updates, so please do not submit any transactions during these times, and save your work regularly:

  • 07:30 – 08:00 on Friday 18 March
  • 07:30 – 12:00 on Saturday 19 March
  • 14:00 – 15:00 on Saturday 19 March
Please be aware that Apply and Track for applicants and advisers will also be unavailable.

This is the first time we’ve used this approach and we’re testing it as a way to improve future maintenance. If you have any questions please contact the HEP Service Desk at hepservicedesk@ucas.ac.uk.