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Is it still possible to provision devices through Xcode while it's down?

The message they've went with is very strange:

"This site is undergoing maintenance for an extended period today."

Normally they give a few weeks warning for maintenance.

I think so, yes. I provisioned a few devices yesterday through xcode during the outage and it updated my provisioning profiles successfully.

If it was planned maintenance, it probably would have happened before WWDC and the iOS 7 betas.

Why? They do maintenance at different points throughout the year.

Wild speculation. But it would make sense to schedule maintenance for a relatively low-traffic period.