Emergency maintenance work on the Mimas servers providing authentication for Census Programme services hosted at Mimas is scheduled from 10:00 am on Thursday, 11 June 2009. Although most of the services will continue to run normally, users will be unable to login to use them via either UK Federation or Athens routes. It is anticipated that the period of unavailability will last for approximately two hours. The CDU would like to apologise to users of its services for any inconvenience caused. Further details and updates relating to the maintenance will be available from the news sections of the CDU and Mimas websites.
From 1 August 2009 access to the resources of the ESRC Census Programme will be via a
single login route, replacing the current two options. Using this single login will
present users with a list of organisations which have signed up to the UK Access
Management Federation.
This change will have no significant effect for most users. Find out more from census.ac.uk (17 April 2009).