Maintenance days in 2023

Central IT carries out a maintenance day once every quarter.

• Saturday, 18 February 2023
• Saturday, 20 May 2023
• Saturday, 19 August 2023
• Saturday, 18 November 2023

Subscriptions to the university calendar

Various university calendars are available that can be subscribed to in your calendar program. 

• Public holidays; address: https://my.ohmportal.de/events/Feiertage.ics
• School holidays; address: https://my.ohmportal.de/events/Schulferien.ics
• Central IT maintenance days; address: https://my.ohmportal.de/events/RZ-Wartung.ics

Instructions for how to subscribe to the university calendars are available in the ZIT’s self-service portal.

Availability of IT services on maintenance days

It is not possible to use the university’s IT services for the whole of this day.

This will affect the following, among others

• Wi-Fi access
• logging in to the PC workstations
• the groupware system (email and calendar)
• MSAD file storage (home and public) and the content services OCS
• access to FAUbox
• the Moodle e-learning system
• the VirtuOhm and StudiOhm online services

There may be short interruptions in network connections within the university and to the internet connection. This also includes

• the eduroam Wi-Fi and
• the GlobalProtect VPN access

Regular maintenance makes a significant contribution to avoiding service interruptions during the week.