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Oracle EBIZ system was moved sucessfully

August 31, 2016

We sucessfully moved our Oracle system over the bank holiday weekend.  It was available again, as planned by 8am on Tuesday 30 August. If you experience any issues with any Oracle system. …


Oracle EBIZ system is unavailable over bank holiday weekend (from Saturday 27 August at 8am until Tuesday 30 August at 8am)

August 24, 2016

We need to move the Oracle system, which is large and complex, from the old data centre to the new one.  To move it and get it running and tested will …


Skype for Business – download software

May 10, 2016

We are setting up Skype for Business (S4B) for school staff that use Solgrid Office 365 email.  You will have received an email, explaining what we are doing and when. …


Safer Internet Day 2016

January 24, 2016

We’re reminding all local academies and schools about Safer Internet Day, putting on training to help school staff put on their own events and telling pupils about it on their …


Internet access issue

December 7, 2015

Our internet service provider, Janet, is experiencing a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. Although this doesn’t appear to be affecting us at Solihull, it may result in some slower …


Website upgrade – 23 November 3015 (work finished)

November 23, 2015

This site has now been moved to a different server to make it run faster.  The work is finished but the new server address is still becoming known across the …


Website upgrade – 23 November 2015 (around 1pm)

November 22, 2015

We’re improving the performance of this website (www.solgrid.org.uk) to make it faster for users.  Nothing else will be affected.  We’re doing it in the middle of the day (when nearly all …


Internet service upgrade complete – Sunday 22 November 2015

November 22, 2015

We’ve finished the work replacing our main routers and upgrading the backup internet link.  Everything went as planned and all services are back to normal.   If you do have …


Planned internet service upgrade – Sunday 22 November 2015

November 6, 2015

There will be no internet access to and from Solgrid between 09:00 and 12:00.  There will be intermittent connectivity between 12:00  and  17:00. What is being done? The existing router is …