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Maintenance to Corporate databases on 20th March

Due to essential patching of the Corporate Database Servers the following services will be unavailable between 16:00 and 00:00 on Tuesday 20th March and at risk from 00:00 to 09:00 on Wednesday 21st March 2012.

Priority Services

• WebCT
• Central Wiki Service
• MyEd*

Medium Priority Services

• HR/Payroll
• EBIS
• Finance systems - eFinancials, WebFirst, eExpenses) Jobs website IDM/VRS
• University Web Site publishing system (Polopoly) PURE

* Although MyEd is unavailable, eJournals, EUCLID for staff and applicants, PebblePad, SMS Mail, Staff Mail, Exchange Mail and diary will be available from links on a holding page at:

• http://www.myed.ed.ac.uk

For a full list of affected services please see the alert at

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If you have any queries regarding this maintenance work please contact the IS Helpline:

This article was published on Nov 23, 2012

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