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Keep up to date with any issues or maintenance work that might be affecting University IT services.

Business applications Operational
HR Organiser Operational
Unit 4 Operational
ESIS Operational
CRM Operational
SharePoint Operational
Tableau Operational
People Manager Operational
File storage Operational
Box Operational
OneDrive Operational
Home Directory (M: Drive) Operational
Shared drives Operational
Internet, network and VPN Operational
Network Operational
Wifi Operational
VPN Operational
Learning tools Operational
FASER Operational
Moodle Operational
Listen Again Operational
Software Hub Operational
Timetables Operational
LEAP Operational
Pocket Essex Operational
Email Operational
Printing Operational
Staff computers Operational
Study spaces Operational
Teams Operational
Telephones Operational
University website Operational
Support Portal Operational
Zoom Operational
Other services Operational
Operational
Degraded Performance
Partial Outage
Major Outage
Maintenance

Aug 16, 2026

No incidents reported today.

Aug 15, 2026

No incidents reported.

Aug 14, 2026

Resolved - Thank you for your patience, LEAP is now operational again.
Aug 14, 09:05 BST
Update - Thank you for your patience while we continue to work on this.
Aug 11, 09:07 BST
Investigating - LEAP is currently unavailable to all users whilst unplanned essential maintenance is undertaken.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. We will post an update as soon as the work is complete.

Aug 10, 06:53 BST

Aug 13, 2026

No incidents reported.

Aug 12, 2026

Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Aug 12, 08:11 BST
Identified - We're aware of an issue affecting our Eduroam wireless service and are currently investigating.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may be causing you. We'll post another update as soon as we know more.

Aug 12, 07:56 BST

Aug 11, 2026

Aug 10, 2026

Aug 9, 2026

No incidents reported.

Aug 8, 2026

No incidents reported.

Aug 7, 2026

No incidents reported.

Aug 6, 2026

No incidents reported.

Aug 5, 2026

Resolved - This issue is now resolved. Thank you for your patience.

If you have any further issues, please contact the IT Helpdesk.

Aug 5, 17:19 BST
Monitoring - We have fixed the issue and we are monitoring the situation.
Aug 5, 17:06 BST
Investigating - We're aware of an issue affecting Moodle and are currently investigating.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may be causing you. We'll post another update as soon as we know more.

Aug 5, 16:53 BST
Resolved - This issue is now resolved. Thank you for your patience.

If you have any further issues, please contact the IT Helpdesk.

Aug 5, 12:09 BST
Investigating - We're aware of an issue affecting our AppsAnywhere (Software Hub) and are currently investigating.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may be causing you. We'll post another update as soon as we know more.

Aug 5, 10:11 BST

Aug 4, 2026

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Aug 4, 17:00 BST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Aug 4, 08:00 BST
Scheduled - Our SharePoint 2016 SSRS Service (https://ssrs.essex.ac.uk - hosting sites and reports) is expected to be unavailable while we carry out essential maintenance.

We're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. We'll post an update as soon as the work is complete.

Users should note that SharePoint on M365 will be unaffected by this maintenance.

Jul 27, 16:22 BST

Aug 3, 2026

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Aug 3, 16:30 BST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Aug 3, 10:30 BST
Scheduled - Due to unforeseen circumstances, the SSRS Reporting Service, hosted on SharePoint 2016 will be unavailable for essential maintenance today. We regret the short notice of this service outage, and thank users for their patience.
Aug 3, 10:27 BST
Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Aug 3, 08:32 BST
Investigating - We're aware of an issue affecting our Load balanced services and are currently investigating.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may be causing you. We'll post another update as soon as we know more.

Aug 3, 08:10 BST

Aug 2, 2026

No incidents reported.