diff --git a/roles/koji_hub/templates/hub.conf.j2 b/roles/koji_hub/templates/hub.conf.j2
index e14909a1cf..6e19dd0fac 100644
--- a/roles/koji_hub/templates/hub.conf.j2
+++ b/roles/koji_hub/templates/hub.conf.j2
@@ -74,11 +74,11 @@ MissingPolicyOk = False
 # KojiTraceback = normal
 
 ## These options are intended for planned outages
-#ServerOffline = True
+ServerOffline = True
 #OfflineMessage = 'planned outage see https://www.fedorastatus.org'
 #OfflineMessage = 'koji is being migrated to a new datacenter'
-#LockOut = True
-#OfflineMessage = 'We are in the middle of branching new fedora release'
+OfflineMessage = 'We are in the middle of branching new fedora release'
+LockOut = True
 
 ## If ServerOffline is True, the server will always report a ServerOffline fault (with
 ## OfflineMessage as the fault string).