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Essential security patching activity 24 July - 26 July

Essential security patching activity 24 July - 26 July

Posted Thu 23 July 2015

Following advice from Microsoft we will be carrying out critical security patching activity this weekend.


We fully appreciate this is short notice and apologise as it’s only a few days after the opening of Apply 2016. However this patching activity is essential to protect our systems from potential security breaches.


This security patching activity will result in the following systems and services being unavailable from 15:00 on Friday 24 July until 23:59 on Sunday 26 July:

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  • odbc-link
  • xml-link

During this time, you will be unable to make real-time updates to your applicant and institution data or send and receive updates from us. However, Course Collect will be available during this time.

As a result of this activity our HEP Team will also be unavailable from 15:00 on Friday 24 July. Normal service will resume from 08:30 on Monday 27 July.

Our search tool, Apply and Track systems will be unavailable to applicants during this time.

If you have any questions, please call our HEP Team on 01242 545 734.

Kind regards

UCAS Communications