Some systems are experiencing issues

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Maintenance
Procurement System Maintenance

The procurement system will be unavailable from 8am until approximately 5pm on Saturday 22nd February due to maintenance.

31st March-4th April: Networks maintenance

IDS will be completing essential security work to network equipment throughout this week. Works will take place between 6am and 8am each morning in buildings across campus. A short outage on the wired and wireless network will occur while the work is being completed, which will last approximately five minutes. Please contact the IT Service Desk if you need further support after these works. 

Alma & Library Search

Upcoming scheduled maintenance for Library Search, Rialto and Alma:

Estimated Start time: Saturday 3rd May 23:00 BST Estimated End time: Saturday 3rd May 23:59 BST

Past Incidents

21st February 2020

No incidents reported

20th February 2020

No incidents reported

19th February 2020

No incidents reported

18th February 2020

Turnitin Turnitin UK are currently experiencing an unexpected service disruption

Turnitin UK are currently experiencing an unexpected service disruption. Users may not be able to make submissions via Google Drive. Turnitin are investigating this issue as a priority and hope to have a resolution soon.

  • Turnitin UK are reporting that the issue is now resolved.

    • Keele People Problems with logging into Keele People

    We are currently investigating login issues with Keele People for Admin users.

  • No further reports of issues

  • We have identified an issue with one of the backend systems that caused intermittent IO requests from the front-end to become blocked.

    The service causing this has been restarted.

    We will continue to watch this issue for reoccurrences.

    • Managed Desktops Slow Student Logins on Managed Desktops

    Some students may experience issues logging into managed desktops provided by the University.

    Symptoms:

    • Slow Logins
    • Black Screens after authentication

  • No further reports of issues

  • Initial tests show that this issue is now resolved. We will continue to monitor this issue throughout the day.

  • We believe that we have identified the root cause of the issue and are currently investigating a fix.

    • 17th February 2020

    Turnitin Users of Turnitin may be unable to load Similarity Reports

    Users of Turnitin may be unable to load Similarity Reports. For live updates http://bit.ly/38CTN5o

  • We are pleased to advise that the service degradation users experienced has now been resolved.