Maintenance mode for portals

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Business value

Customers can display a “Website under maintenance” message during routine maintenance or major upgrade activities on their portal.

Maintenance mode lets portal administrators avoid showing intermittent service unavailability errors to end users during portal maintenance that otherwise can impact user satisfaction and portal search rankings.

Persona

Portal administrators

Features

This feature provides the ability to:

  • Enable and disable maintenance mode from the portal admin center.
  • Specify a custom message that is shown to portal users when the website is in this mode.

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