September 2015

  • Aquila HPC service retirement - 30 September 2015

    The compute nodes on the Aquila HPC system will be powered down on 30th September 2015, the process starts at midday.  As well as powering down the compute nodes, we will also be disabling the scheduler system and turning off...

  • IT maintenance Tuesday 29 September 7am-9am

    Maintenance and upgrades will be taking place, during our at risk* period Tuesday 29 September 7am-9am: UniDesk will be will be unavailable due to essential upgrades (7am-9am). Please make sure you have saved your work and logged out of UniDesk...

  • Box of Broadcasts maintenance all week begining Tuesday 29 September

    The BoB (Box of Broadcasts) team are upgrading the service.  The work starts Tuesday 29 September 2015 and will continue all week. This maintenance is being carried out by a third party, so if you need to use material in...

  • XcodeGhost update

    Apple have released statement about the XcodeGhost malware hack. Read Apple’s statement.

  • Advice about malware called XcodeGhost

    The media is reporting that many popular Apps for Apple iOS devices (iPhone and iPad) after Apple's App Store was infected with XcodeGhost malware in China. The BBC technology section has several articles about this. Apple have said that they...

  • IT Maintenance Tuesday 22 September 7am-9am

    Maintenance and upgrades will be taking place, during our at risk* period Tuesday 22 September 2015, 7am-9am. The network will be undergoing maintenance. You may experience minor disruptions if you are using the Internet and any of the services below...

  • Log out request and IT maintenance, Tues 15 Sept

    Maintenance and upgrades will be taking place, during our at risk* period Tuesday 15 September 2015, 6am-9am. All users are asked to log out before 6am, Tuesday 15 September.  Most people will be able to log in from 8am, apart...

  • UniDesk update required

    If you use UniDesk to work or study when you're off campus, you'll need to download the file again. This is because the security certificate has been updated. If you don't do this, you may see an error message, telling...

  • WiFi maintenance Wednesday 9 September 6am-8am

    In a slight change to our standard routine, we have maintenance  that will take place on Wednesday 9 September between 6am-8am. Maintenance will affect the following services: WiFi is undergoing an upgrade and will have some minor disruption campus wide,...

  • Active Directory downtime 7am-7.30am Friday 4 September

    We have recently been informed of problems with Active Directory this morning, September 4, between 7am-7-30am. Some users would have been prompted to re-enter their username and password when using software such as Outlook. This problem has now resolved but...