ITS Production Freezes for Campus Services

A production freeze ensures service availability and reduces risk by establishing a period of time—or "freeze"—during a business cycle where no major changes are made to services and systems.

Targeted Freezes

Targeted freezes are specific to certain systems.

Requesting a Freeze

Event-related production freezes support campus wide or unit special events. Any U-M staff member may request a freeze for an event by submitting a request to inform ITS of a campus event.

Freeze dates are calculated based on the academic calendar published by the Office of the Registrar.

Fall and Winter Terms

• Start of Term : Freeze begins at 12:01 a.m. 7 days prior to the first day of classes and ends on Friday of the second week of classes.
• Exams : Freeze begins at 12:01 a.m. the first day exams begin and ends at midnight 4 days after the last day of exams.

Summer I and Summer II Terms

• Start of Term : There is no ITS production freeze at the beginning of the summer terms.
• Exams : IT Freeze begins at 12:01 a.m. the first day exams begin and ends at midnight 4 days after the last day of exams.