We are currently upgrading the security certificates for many of our *.esdm.co.uk websites and services. The new certificate uses SHA256 encryption will improve the HTTPS security. Disruption will be kept to a minimum as the change will have... read more

There was a brief service disruption today (4th Oct.) between approx. 12:20 and 12:40 effecting client connections to some hosted services and websites. The disruption was caused by a server communication issue which has now been resolved and all ... read more

We have updated the firewalls and configured in an auto failover mode

We also successfully tested the failover.

We hope this will give us greater resilience moving forwards.

We are doing some work to improve the resilience of our firewalls.  We do not anticipate any downtime but the period of risk extends from 22:00 till 00:00

The server maintenance and move has been completed successfully and all systems are back up and running. We do no anticipate any issues but if you experience any issues please contact you normal exeGesIS consultant and we will investigate as soon ... read more

We have scheduled some downtime out of hours on Thursday 1st Sept – work to commence at 8pm. The anticipated down time should be 1-2 hours if things go smoothly but the "at risk" period extends to the following morning. The downtime is necessary... read more

We will be carrying out some essential maintenance to a number of our servers from 6 pm this evening (23rd Feb 2016). If this work impacts an application/system/website then your primary contact will have been informed. We will be attempting ... read more

Edit: [9/12/15 09:00] This work is now complete and all servers are back up and running The servers RDS-BA-HBSMR (Berkshire Archaeology HER), RDS-MK-HBSMR (Milton Keynes HER) and RDS-PWay-CAMS (Pennine Way CAMS) are currently unavailable due to... read more

The move went smoothly and the servers are now installed in the new data centre and everything is up and running from the tests we have run. We do not anticipate the move creating issues for any systems as all IP addresses etc have remained... read more

We are moving all of our servers from the Telehouse datacentre to another datacentre in North London. This move will provide us with better support from our suppliers and enable faster responses to any issues in future. Details of the new... read more