Information Technology Production Freezes for Campus Services

What is a Production Freeze?

A production freeze process ensures service availability and reduces risk by establishing a period of time, or “freeze”, during a business cycle where we will eliminate changes to any component related to any business critical service. In short, no major changes are made to services and systems during a freeze.

Necessary updates and security patches can be applied and emergency maintenance can be done during a freeze. For all other maintenance requests, security patches, and /or critical updates during freeze periods, a consensus of IT administration must agree to the change or update based on immediate need. If you have a question about a production freeze or need to place your event on the freeze calendar, please contact the IT Service Desk.

Scheduled Freezes

 

2024

• January 2nd – January 12th
• April 19th – April 29th
• (May 25th – May 27th – scheduled downtime for Information Technology updates)
• June 11th – June 14th Orientation Dates
• July 9th – July 12th Orientation Dates
• August 7th – August 9th Orientation Dates
• August 14th – August 23rd
• (August 31st – September 2nd Scheduled Downtime for Information Technology Updates)
• December 6th – December 16th

2023

• January 3rd – January 9th
• April 17th – May 1st
• (May 27th – May 29th – scheduled downtime for Information Technology updates)
• June 13th – June 16th Orientation Dates
• July 11th – July 14th Orientation Dates
• August 3rd – August 4th Orientation Dates
• August 12th – August 25th
• September 2nd – September 4th Scheduled Downtime for Information Technology Updates)
• November 27th – December 11th

2022

• January 3rd – January 14th
• April 18th – May 2nd
• (May 28th – May 30th – scheduled downtime for Information Technology updates)
• June 7th – June 10th Orientation Dates
• July 12th – July 15th Orientation Dates
• August 2nd – August 5th Orientation Dates
•  August 15th – September 2nd
• December 2nd – December 12th

2021

• January 4th – January 19th
• April 19th – May 4th
• (May 29th – May 31st – scheduled downtime for Information Technology updates)
• June 8th – June 11th Orientation Dates
• July 13th – July 16th Orientation Dates
• August 3rd – August 6th Orientation Dates
•  August 16th – August 31st
• December 3rd – December 13th

2020

• January 2nd – January 13th
• April 24th – May 4th
• (May 23rd – May 25th – scheduled downtime for Information Technology updates)
•  August 15th – August 31st

2019

• January 7th – January 18th
• April 29th – May 14th
• August 7th – August 30th
• (August 31 – Sept 2nd – scheduled downtime for Information Technology updates)
• December 2nd – December 16th