AESDirect Required Maintenance - Scheduled Outages

AES Broadcast  06/21/2011          Broadcast  #  2011036

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AESDirect Required Maintenance - Scheduled Outages

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This message is intended for AESDirect program users only. If you are not an AESDirect program filer, you will not be affected by these outages.

The AESDirect system will experience required system maintenance occurring Wednesday, June 22, 2011. There will be one brief outage when the AESDirect system will not be available for EEI filing.

The first outage will occur on June 22, 2011 from Midnight EDT to 1:00am EDT. During this outage the AES Downtime Policy will not be enacted.

We strongly encourage you to file your shipments prior to these outages if possible.

AESPcLink users are encouraged to continue creating and storing shipments in a queue on their local computer for transmission when AESDirect is brought back on-line after each outage.

For further information or questions, contact the U.S. Census Bureau's AES Branch.