PlayStation Network users will have limited access to the service for a six-hour period of routine network maintenance on Nov. 17, Sony announced today.

The maintenance window will run from 12-6 p.m. ET, during which time Sony will "deploy a series of back-end improvements to the network."

As usual, PSN users will still be able to play games online and use apps like Netflix as long as they've logged in recently. In this case, that means anytime from today onward. But PlayStation Home, the PlayStation Store and PSN account management will all be unavailable during the maintenance period.

Update: Sony has pushed up the maintenance window by an hour; it will now run from 12-6 p.m. ET. We've edited the post to reflect this.