Yesterday, switched on, logged in, checked email - zip - nada.
Tried internet - nada.
Rebooted - unable to log in.
Checked colleague - nada.
Rang SPOC.
Is it Outlook?
No, no connectivity.
Is it the intranet or IGS?
No, nothing, no connectivity, its as if there are no wires to the outside world.
Can you see the wires? Are they plugged into the machine?
I suppose the question is not entirely stupid but it should have been obvious that I had checked the obvious. We had already established it had worked the day before.
Anyway, I was right, it was the wires somewhere "Thanks BT for a quiet day in the office."