Instructional & Research Information Systems
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, April 13th, 2021. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, April 14th, at 3:00 am.
WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, April 14th, depending on additional software updates.
[Read more…] about April 2021 Windows Server PatchingA possible Cory switch failure occurred at about 1:25pm this afternoon, affecting at least some machines on the first floor and mezzanine of Cory Hall. Network staff are aware, and will investigate.
[Read more…] about Network outageAs of 2:21 pm, networking for Sutardja Dai, Blum, and Calvin Halls is offline. Staff are en route to campus for further investigation.
Update: network connectivity was fully restored at 6:00PM when certain hosts which were causing instability were removed from the network. We will follow up tomorrow with the sysadmins of these hosts to try and prevent future incidents.
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, March 9th, 2021. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, March 10th, at 3:00 am.
WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, March 10th, depending on additional software updates.
[Read more…] about March 2021 Windows Server PatchingOur Terminal Services license manager host, RDSMANAGER, needs to be temporarily taken down so that we can make a repair to the virtual disk image file used by this virtual machine. We will be shutting down RDSMANAGER at about noon on Friday, February 19, 2021.
During this maintenance, any Windows Terminal Servers (such as winterm.eecs) will alert users that no valid Terminal Service license servers could be contacted — but other than the alert, no interruption of service should be noticed.
RDSMANAGER should be down for 4-6 hours. License service should resume as normal by about 6pm Friday.
[Read more…] about Windows Terminal Service licenses unavailable during maintenance Friday, February 19Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, February 9th, 2021. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, February 10th, at 3:00 am.
WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, February 10th, depending on additional software updates.
[Read more…] about February 2021 Windows Server PatchingMicrosoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, January 12th, 2021. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, January 13th, at 3:00 am.
WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, January 13th, depending on additional software updates.
[Read more…] about January 2021 Windows Server PatchingDue to the Winter Holiday, Energy Curtailment, and New Year’s Holidays, the Berkeley campus is officially closed for the period Wednesday, December 23 to Monday, January 4, reopening on Tuesday, January 5, 2021.
All departmental computing servers will remain on and should be available during the break, but there will be no staff on site to provide any computing support or handle any requests. Automatic monitoring systems will alert staff to critical infrastructure problems, and any such problems will be dealt with on a best-effort basis.
The IRIS Helpdesk will close early at noon on Tuesday, December 22, and will reopen on Tuesday, January 5. Problem reports can be left on the Helpdesk voice mail (510-642-7777) or emailed to help@eecs, but staff may not receive or reply to these messages until January 5.
Requests for new IRIS accounts that are received after 5pm December 21 may not be processed until January 5, 2021.
During the break, Instructional labs will be locked, but the main servers will remain online (for details, see the Instructional website). Instructional support staff will occasionally monitor inst@eecs email over the break. Please be aware, though, that staff may not be able to respond or reply to messages until January 5.
Computing support staff will be monitoring their email when possible, so please use standard email addresses to report any urgent problems. As a reminder:
Instructional Computing Environment: inst@eecs
Research / Staff Computing Environment: help@eecs
Information regarding campus IT closures is available here: https://technology.berkeley.edu/news/it-schedule-winter-holidays-curtailment
Happy Holidays!
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, December 8th, 2020. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, December 9th, at 3:00 am.
WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, December 9th, depending on additional software updates.
[Read more…] about December 2020 Windows Server PatchingMicrosoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, November 10th, 2020. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, November 11th, at 3:00 am.
WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, November 11th, depending on additional software updates.
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