March 2016

  • Balena HPC maintenance 11th April 2016

    On Monday 11th April, the Balena HPC cluster will be unavailable due to maintenance work. Part of this work will include ClusterVision performing a full health check to ensure Balena is running at optimal performance. During this time, all jobs...

  • IT maintenance, Tues 22 March 2016, 7am to 9am

    Maintenance and upgrades will be taking place during our at risk* period, Tuesday 22 March 2016. Mathematica network licences will be unavailable while we update the licences (7am to 9am) TopDesk (both Self Service and Operator portals) will be unavailable...

  • IT maintenance, Tues 15 March, 7am - 9am

    Maintenance and upgrades will be taking place during our at risk* period, Tuesday 15 March 2016, 7am - 9am. An update to our GlobalProtect VPN for Windows and Macs service.  When users next log in to GlobalProtect VPN they will...

  • New OS X Ransomware affecting Transmission (BitTorrent client)

    It has recently come to light that users who downloaded version 2.90 of the Transmission BitTorrent client for OS X from official website after 3.00 GMT, March 4, 2016 and before 1100 GMT, March 5, 2016, may be been infected...

  • IT maintenance, Tues 8 March 2016, 7am to 9am

    Maintenance and upgrades will be taking place, during our at risk* period Tuesday 8 March 2016. A number of applications will be unavailable on UniDesk, 7am to 9am.  Those affected are: Active Listening in English Active listening in English towards...