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Google Apps Calendar Maintenance
Calling all Google Apps users, your schedule might not be spot-on this Thursday.Users of Google Apps can expect some downtime during routine maintenance of the Google Calendar Thursday April 26th, from 8AM to 9PM. As is expected with any sort of maintenance, downtimes may and will occur and in this case Google Calendar might not be accessible for some time. Scheduled maintenance during daylight hours, what gives, Google?
This blow to users scheduling sure does make us wonder if Google Apps is worth using for our main scheduling application. It is understandable that system upgrades have to occur in order to improve services, it just sucks that we are now forced to suffer.
For Google Apps support you can check out http://www.google.com/support/a/
Drop a comment on Thursday to let us all know if you were affected by the maintenance and approx. how long your downtime lasted for.
UPDATE: More info on the scheduled maintenance from Google:
Why are we doing an upgrade?
We are updating some of our servers as we continue to improve Google Calendar. This is a normal maintenance update, and as with all updates we look to minimize the impact to our end users.
How will this impact my end users?
The impact to your users should be minimal. Only a subset of your users should be affected by the upgrade. These users may have trouble accessing their Google Calendars for a short period of time, generally less than 5-10 minutes each.
Will Google Calendar be down from 8AM to 9PM PDT?
No. This is the window of time that the maintenance upgrade will take place. During this time some users will experience issues accessing their calendar, but only for a short period of time each.
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsColinApr 25th 2007 12:57AM
Good Me™ is going to assume this post is sarcastic and just for fun.
Bad Me™ is going to tell you to sod off and spend an hour not calendaring your life when you could probably be working anyway.
Troll Me™ figures you could use that hour to post to Twitter about how you were unable to schedule an hour of talking about Twitter due to a lack of scheduling facilities.
Zen Me™ doesn't care what the previous Me™s said.
ColinApr 25th 2007 1:00AM
Mea Culpa Me™ (get it?) just realized that's 9 *PM*, not *AM*. My bad. In that case, I wish to shake my fist at Google along with you.
FemiApr 25th 2007 2:11AM
Guess you cant satisfy everybody eh, personally it beats having an archain "enterprise" system lying on our servers and having to shell out numerous amounts of $$$ for some specialist to upgrade. Inevitably putting the system out of action for hours or days anyway :-).
Sit back relax and enjoy, you have been given plenty of notice
RobertApr 25th 2007 3:23AM
Hmm, from my European-centric point of view (as opposed to the US-centric) I can not see much daylight happening at the scheduled maintenance time window.
Basically, if you operate on a worldwide scale as Google Apps do, there simply is not a single time window which pleases all of the planet.
digitalriftApr 25th 2007 4:26AM
Just got an email from google. Apparently this is the time *range* people might be affected in, but the actual downtime for each user will be limited to 5-10 minutes.
captainsteveApr 25th 2007 10:29AM
Yea... and its not even a guaranteed downtime. Its just a heads up that something might happen to your calender during that time if you are actively using it. To quote non-creative /. commenters, "Nothing to see here, move along..."