There was a problem with the network infrastructure this morning that may have stopped you connecting to the VPN. The VPN connection is working now but this problem helped identify an issue with our internal systems.

If you’re on-campus or connected to your PC via VPN you may experience internet connection issues, our engineers are currently working to resolve this now.

This post will be updated when we have more information.

As always, thanks for your patience while we get this fixed.

Update 11:05 6 June 2020

Our engineers have now resolved this issue, sorry for any trouble this may have caused.

Resolved, 5.00pm 3 June

This issue is now resolved.

If you’re still experiencing issues please let the IT Helpdesk know.

Monitoring, 11.50am 3 June

We have made a range of improvements directed at this problem, we are continuing to monitor the situation very closely.  Again, we’re sorry for the disruption.

Investigating, 4.20pm 2 June

We’re aware that some staff are having trouble connecting or maintaining a connection to their computer on campus using remote desktop.

If this problem is affecting you please report it to the IT Helpdesk  (https://www.essex.ac.uk/staff/it-services/it-helpdesk).

One workaround is to use the University’s Virtual Desktop service  (https://www.essex.ac.uk/staff/it-services/virtual-desktop).

Also check our working remotely guidance (https://www.essex.ac.uk/staff/it-services/working-remotely-from-home-or-off-campus)  as many of our services are accessible without using VPN and remote desktop.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may be causing you.  We’re urgently investigating the cause and will update you as soon as possible.

Resolved, 5.35pm

This issue is now resolved.

If you’re still experiencing issues please let the IT Helpdesk know.

Investigating 1.04pm

We’re aware that some staff are having trouble connecting or maintaining a connection to their computer on campus using remote desktop.

If this problem is affecting you please report it to the IT Helpdesk.

One workaround is to use the University’s Virtual Desktop service.

Also check our working remotely guidance as many of our services are accessible without using VPN and remote desktop.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may be causing you. We’re investigating the cause and will update you as soon as possible.

If you were not aware there was a electrical power surge that affected the Colchester area last week Wednesday 20th May.

This has caused many PCs and equipment at the University to enter a partially faulty state requiring a power cycle to be fully restored which IT Solutions has been working diligently to do so.

Many areas of the network have been brought up to 100% however one area of the East side of the Physics building failed completely this morning.

Physics building network outage, 7.56am Tuesday 26th May

Physics building network resolved, 10am Tuesday 26th May

If you are still having trouble accessing your PC remotely please contact the IT Helpdesk.

Update: Room numbers would include 5S.X.X, 5N.X.X, 4SB.X.X