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1 October 2026, 13:56: TSM maintenance period ended
#ufrstatus #wartung The TSM system is fully operational again.
30 September 2026, 10:19: urgent maintenance work on the two-wire telephone system today, 30 September, 1 pm–3 pm
#ufrstatus #wartung #stoerung Due to urgent maintenance work, part of our two-wire telephone system will be unavailable today (Wednesday, 30 September) between 1 pm and 3 pm. A small number of external telephones at barriers and (main) building entrances are affected. VoIP handsets at workstations and softphones (OpenScape UC) are not affected.
29 September 2026, 09:46: TSM maintenance break
#ufrstatus #wartung On Thursday 1 October 2026, maintenance will be carried out on the IBM Spectrum Protect backup solution from 10.00 am to 2.00 pm. The service will be unavailable during this time.
24 September 2026, 23:14: ILIAS maintenance period has ended. ILIAS platforms are available again.
#ufrstatus #wartung The maintenance work carried out as part of the update to ILIAS version 10 has been successfully completed. All ILIAS platforms are available again. Data migrations will continue to run in the background over the next few days, which may occasionally result in individual files, images or videos being unavailable. If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to email ilias@rz.uni-freiburg.de Your ILIAS team at the University IT Services.
24 September 2026, 19:43: ILIAS maintenance break extended until around midnight
#ufrstatus #wartung Work on updating the University of Freiburg’s ILIAS platforms is still ongoing. We aim to have the platforms up and running again by around midnight on 24 September 2026. Thank you for your understanding!
24 September 2026, 09:04: Power cut in Peterhof, Niemensstr. 10
#ufrstatus #outage #maintenance Power cut in Peterhof on Thursday, 1 October 26, from 1.00 pm to 5.00 pm
2026-09-21 15:48: HISinOne production system back online after successful maintenance
#ufrstatus #maintenance #end HISinOne is available again following the necessary last-minute maintenance work
2026-09-21 09:30 a.m.: HISinOne is offline due to urgent maintenance work
#ufrstatus #wartung Due to urgent maintenance work, HISinOne is currently unavailable. We will provide an update through this channel once the work is complete.
16 September 2026, 14:25: ILIAS maintenance window: Update to version 10, Thursday 24 September 2026, from 10:30
#ufrstatus #wartung On Thursday 24 September 2026, from 10.30 am to approximately 7.00 pm, we will be updating the ILIAS learning platforms to version 10. ILIAS, WB-ILIAS, kosmic, medicAL and the e-exams platform will be unavailable during the update. Thank you for your understanding.
2026-09-15 11:50: HISinOne available again
#ufrstatus #wartung #stoerung The campus management system HISinOne is available again after a successful update.
September 15, 2026, 9:36 a.m.: Temporary HISinOne Outage
#ufrstatus #outage Due to unforeseen side effects during the emergency power test, we had to take HISinOne offline at short notice
14 September 2026, 14:43: Urgent maintenance on the telephone system on Wednesday 16 September from 12 noon to 2 pm
#ufrstatus #wartung #stoerung Due to urgent maintenance work, the two-wire subsystem of our telephone system will be unavailable on Wednesday 16 September between 12 noon and 2 pm. This affects a small number of external telephones at barriers and (main) building entrances, as well as the publicly accessible wall-mounted handsets in the university library. VoIP handsets at workstations and softphones (OpenScape UC) are not affected.
14 September 2026, 14:02: Shutdown of AI systems: 14 September, 23:00 – 15 September, 11:00
#ufrstatus #wartung The University of Freiburg’s AI systems were shut down due to the emergency power test on the morning of 15 September 2026 and the associated shutdown of the University IT Services’ main power circuit. The following are affected: Open WebUI, AI Proxy, AI assistants in ILIAS and the AI API Gateway. The system will be taken offline on 14 September 2026 at 23:00. The systems will be available again from 11:00 on 15 September 2026. Further information on the emergency power test: https://www.rz.uni-freiburg.de/en/rz-en/news-alerts/aktuell-en/11-september-2026-11-12-emergency-power-test-on-tuesday-15-september-2026?set_language=en
11 September 2026, 11:12: Emergency power test on Tuesday 15 September 2026
#wartung Notice: Maintenance work on the emergency generator Date: Tuesday, 15 September 26 Time: 07:30 to 10:30 Location: University IT Services, Hermann-Herder-Straße 10
2026-09-08 11:29: HISinOne maintenance on Wed. September 9 from 4 PM for approx. 60 min.
#ufrstatus #wartung The campus management system HISinOne (productive, demo, active test) is not available on Wednesday, September 9 from 4 PM for approx. 60 min. due to necessary system maintenance.
7 September 2026, 13:30: Urgent update for vCenter from Central RZ-Virtualisation
#ufrstatus #wartung Today, 7 September 2026, an urgent security update for the vCenter of the central RZ-virtualisation system will be deployed at 4 pm. As a result, the vCenter will be unavailable for approximately 60 minutes. Users’ VMs will not be affected.
3 September 2026, 09:49: Wikiserver security update
#ufrstatus #wartung Security update for the wiki server. The individual wikis will be unavailable whilst the update is taking place.
1 September 2026, 22:31: ILIAS security update successfully completed
#ufrstatus #wartung The various ILIAS platforms are accessible again.
1 September 2026, 21:47: ILIAS security update from 22:00
#ufrstatus #wartung Security update for all ILIAS installations. The various ILIAS platforms will be unavailable during this time.
31 August 2026 17:24: CommuniGate fault resolved
#ufrstatus #stoerung The mail server is up and running again.
31 August 2026, 16:16: Disruption to access to the CommuniGate mail server
#ufrstatus #stoerung The CommuniGate mail server is currently unavailable.
28 August 2026 10:07:
#ufrstatus bwSync&Share: Outage from 6.00 #bwSync&Share Due to a delay in an ongoing Nextcloud upgrade, the service is currently unavailable. The operator is working to resolve the issue.
27 August 2026, 17:04: CommuniGate fault resolved
#ufrstatus The mail server is up and running again. The firewall’s intrusion protection was activated following a DDoS attack on the mail server.
27 August 2026, 16:18: Disruption to the availability of the CommuniGate mail server
#ufrstatus #stoerung The CommuniGate mail server is currently unavailable.
27 August 2026 14:10: bwCloud-OS (Gen2) Freiburg shutdown on 15 September 2026
Final reminder: The ‘bwCloud-OS (Gen2) Freiburg’ service will be terminated on 15 September 2026. All users must ensure that they migrate their data and services to the new ‘bwCloud-OS (Gen3)’ service before this date! Further information: https://bwcloud-os.de/betrieb/shutdown-notice All departments and users have been informed in advance! #ufrstatus #wartung
27 August 2026 14:07: bwCloud-OS (Gen3) Freiburg maintenance on 15 September 2026
#ufrstatus #wartung All computing services (VMs, Volumes, VM-Netzworks, ...) of the bwCloud-OS (Gen3) Freiburg will be unavailable on 15 September 2026 from 06:30 to 11:00. All VMs in Freiburg will be paused and will not be automatically restarted afterward. Non-computing services (such as APIs) and other regions should not be affected by the power cut. The reason for this is the general power cut and recovery test taking place at the University IT Services of the University of Freiburg from 07:30 to 10:30. Maintenance work will take place from 11:00 to 13:00, which will not affect service quality or availability. Further information will be announced here: https://bwcloud-os.de/en/status -> 'Scheduled events'
26 August 2026, 14:46: Telephone system update successfully completed
#ufrstatus The telephone system integrated with the UC environment has been successfully updated. This has also resolved some issues with controlling the telephone via UC, which had been occurring since yesterday. Telephony, UC and voicemail are now fully operational again.
26 August 2026, 10:55: Telephone system update
#ufrstatus #wartung #stoerung The VoIP telephone system infrastructure has been undergoing an update since 10.30 am. Thanks to the redundancy mechanisms, there should be no service outages. However, due to the patching work and the associated relocation of services within the cluster, individual calls may be interrupted.
25 August 2026, 12:45: UC update completed
#ufrstatus The update to our Unified Communications environment has been successfully completed. The UC environment has been given a new design in the browser-based application, and as a result, some features have changed. You may need to clear your browser cache.
25 August 2026 10:12: Telephony update – UC
#ufrstatus #wartung #stoerung Status: preparations for an update are currently underway; there may be occasional interruptions to access the UC systems or to telephone control via UC. The telephone service itself is not affected by the maintenance work.