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March 29, 2021

[Service Alert] We’re making improvements to the SIP phone system

Filed under: Telephone, [Resolved], [Scheduled], [Service Alert] — Andy Tyne @ 11:12 am

Planned Work

As part of our ongoing improvements to our telephony services, we’ve got some planned upgrades happening on 31 March 2021 from 7.00am to 7.30am.

We do not anticipate any disruption, but we will be running without the usual level of resilience for a short period.

We’ll update you here as soon as the work is complete.

Monitoring, 7.15 am

The work is now complete and we are monitoring the situation.

Thank you for your patience.

Work Complete, 3.30pm

The planned upgrade has been completed successfully.

If you notice any issues please let the IT Helpdesk know.

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February 22, 2021

[Service Alert] We’re making improvements to our phone service

Filed under: Telephone, [Resolved], [Scheduled], [Service Alert] — Andy Tyne @ 4:10 pm

Resolved

This is now resolved.

Monitoring

The planned work has been completed without incident. We will monitor the system performance for the rest of the day.

Planned work

As part of our ongoing improvements to our phone service, we’ve got some planned upgrades happening on 25 February 2021 from 07.00 am to 08.00 am.

Unfortunately, during this time, you won’t be able to:

  • use a SIP phone (including BRIA softphone), at any campus
  • access voicemail to leave or listen to a message

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

An analogue phone at Southend or Colchester will still work for internal calls within the same campus only.

We’ll update you here as soon as the work is complete.

 

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February 19, 2021

[Service Alert] Problem with power in the Library

Filed under: Computers, Network, Telephone, Wi-Fi, [Resolved], [Service Alert] — Kit Lindsley @ 11:26 am

Resolved, 3:45pm

This issue is now resolved.

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

 

Monitoring, 11:27am

An issue was identified with the power and has been fixed.  We are monitoring the situation to ensure that all services are restored as quickly as possible.

Thank you for your patience while we dealt with this.

 

Investigating, 10:53am

We’re currently investigating reports of a power cut affecting staff across several floors in the library on the Colchester Campus.

We’ll post another update here as soon as we learn more.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may be causing you.

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February 15, 2021

Planned SIP phone system upgrades are happening soon

Filed under: Telephone, [Resolved], [Service Alert] — Andy Tyne @ 6:22 pm

Deferred Maintenance

Our system maintainer has requested we apply an emergency upgrade to the SIP phone system which was originally scheduled for:

  • Thursday 18 February between 7.00am and 8.00am

The update has been deferred temporarily due to staff sickness and will be rescheduled shortly.

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February 10, 2021

[Service Alert] Power cut on Colchester campus yesterday evening

Filed under: Computers, Corporate systems, Elearning, FASER, Listen Again, Moodle, Network, Printing, Software Hub, Telephone, Timetables, University website, Wi-Fi, [Resolved], [Service Alert] — Alex ONeill @ 10:10 am

There was a power outage at the Colchester campus yesterday which affected a significant number of our IT services. Power was restored at 22:38, however, some computers and other services may still be affected today, such as remoting into your computer on campus.

If you have any issues, please contact the IT Helpdesk, and will help you as soon as we can.

Details of the power cut can be found on the UK Power Networks site at https://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/power-cut/map?postcodesector=CO4%203.

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