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During the Tuesday, 13 August maintenance window, maintenance work will affect certain services, starting at 5:30 PM and being completed before midnight.  The following work is planned:

• Wi-Fi: software will be updated on Wi-Fi access points in the area listed below.  Wi-Fi services will be unavailable for 20 minutes. 
  • Main campus: all buildings in the area within Prince Alfred St, Somerset St and Lucas Avenue, up to and including Biological Sciences Building, the Library and Psychology.
• Wi-Fi security certificate renewal: the certificate used to secure connections to the RUoffcampus service will be updated.
  
  Users of Apple iPhones or iPads will be prompted to accept the new certificate when next they connect to an RUoffcampus Wi-Fi network after that time.  The new certificate has the fingerprints below. Provided the certificate fingerprint matches, please tap Accept Certificate.
  • SHA256 fingerprint, used by iPhone/iPad: 83 d3 fe 06 92 81 ab dc 7e 81 4a fa da ed 7a f0 69 fa 58 7f e6 35 f6 3f 84 bc da 48 7a e9 09 66
  • SHA1 fingerprint, used by Windows 10: 35 7E 82 20 D6 74 89 C3 81 0A 3E 32 02 0B B5 84 A8 CF DE C9
• If your devices are no longer able to connect after Wednesday morning, please reconfigure them according to the instructions.

This work is being conducted during a minor maintenance period. Should there be a compelling reason why this work should not go ahead as planned, please contact support@ru.ac.za before 3:00 PM on Tuesday.