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The window is always going to be on a '''Thursday''' from '''8pm-12am'''.  A list of maintenance windows for 2014 is as follows with the upcoming window in bold.
The window is always going to be on a '''Thursday''' from '''8pm-12am'''.  A list of maintenance windows for 2014 is as follows with the upcoming window in bold.


* '''February 20th 2014'''
* '''April 17th 2014'''
* March 20th 2014
* April 17th 2014
* May 22nd 2014
* May 22nd 2014
* June 19th 2014
* June 19th 2014
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* December 19th 2013
* December 19th 2013
* January 23rd 2014
* January 23rd 2014
* February 20th 2014
* March 20th 2014

Revision as of 16:08, 9 April 2014

UMIACS takes a monthly maintenance window to patch and reboot our hosts. This provides a way to ensure security updates are installed and activated on the numerous different platforms and appliances that we maintain.

The window is calculated each month by adding 9 days to Microsoft's Patch Tuesday. This allows us to marshal patches released that month from Microsoft, Red Hat, and our other vendors and have enough time to get our systems prepared to reboot for that month's window.

The window is always going to be on a Thursday from 8pm-12am. A list of maintenance windows for 2014 is as follows with the upcoming window in bold.

  • April 17th 2014
  • May 22nd 2014
  • June 19th 2014
  • July 17th 2014
  • August 21st 2014
  • September 18th 2014
  • October 23rd 2014
  • November 20th 2014
  • December 18th 2014

Archives

  • January 17th 2013
  • February 21st 2013
  • March 21st 2013
  • April 18th 2013
  • May 23rd 2013
  • June 20th 2013
  • July 18th 2013
  • August 22nd 2013
  • September 19th 2013
  • October 17th 2013
  • December 19th 2013
  • January 23rd 2014
  • February 20th 2014
  • March 20th 2014