All central IT services on the West Lafayette campus will be down for up to 16 hours each of the next two weekends. At 4 p.m. on Saturdays July 19 and July 26, a complete power outage in Freehafer Hall will allow steps in installing larger transformers to support IT data center loads.

Services should resume by 8 a.m. Sunday.

There will be no access to Purdue home directories, shared files or folders, e-mail, Blackboard Vista, Software Remote, Purdue Air Link wireless Internet connections, Purdue or ITaP Web pages, VPN service, or OnePurdue SAP or Banner.

The outage is also expected to prevent campus users from accessing any IT service that requires a Purdue career account login and password.

Suggested preparations and more about the improvement project are at www.itap.purdue.edu.