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Adobe CC 2015 and Visio Pro 2016 now available on SWW

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Installer files for campus site-licensed versions of Adobe Creative Cloud 2015 are now available on both WinSWW and MacSWW. This includes separate installers for Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, and others. Note that access to WinSWW and MacSWW is restricted to those who have Standard IRIS accounts (Limited IRIS accounts do not have access).

Visio Pro 2016 installers (32-bit and 64-bit Windows) are also available on WinSWW.

These installers are intended for use on university-owned machines that are not managed by Campus Shared Services. For personally-owned machines and further information about Adobe and Microsoft licensing on campus, please visit the campus Software Central website.

Special thanks go to AMPLab technical support staff, who handled the initial downloads of these very large files.

Now blocking JetDirect access from off-campus

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As of 4pm Sunday, March 27, we are blocking some access from off-campus devices to printers on the EECS production networks. In particular, incoming traffic to port 9100 (JetDirect) is currently blocked by the department firewall.

Using the campus VPN is one way to work around this block, if you need to print from off-campus. Feel free to contact help@eecs if your printing needs require an alternate solution.

Mar 2016 Windows Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, March 8th, 2016.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, March 9th, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, March 9th, depending on additional software updates.

Resolved as of 2016-03-09 08:06:00

Project storage migration

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As
previously announced, we are in process of migrating our central file storage
system to a new cluster of Network Appliance hardware.

Beginning February 15 (President’s Day), we will be migrating project and cluster
storage spaces to the new hardware. Initial synchronizations will be done over the
next two weeks, so that the final sync and cutover time will be reduced for the larger project spaces.
We are initially proposing the following schedule:

Time                    Project            New mount
Feb 15 6:00-6:30pm      /cproj/nlp         proj40.eecs:/nlp
Feb 15 6:15-7:00pm      /proj/ptolemy      proj40.eecs:/ptolemy
Feb 15 6:45-7:30pm      /proj/parlab       proj40.eecs:/parlab
Feb 15 6:45-7:30pm      /proj/radlab       proj30.eecs:/proj30/radlab
Feb 15 7:15-8:00pm      /proj/efros        proj10.eecs:/efros
Feb 15 9:00pm-7:00am    /cproj/(others)    proj40.eecs:/cproj/(sharename)



Feb 16 8pm-7am          /proj/[a-c]*       proj10.eecs:/proj10/(sharename)



Feb 17 8pm-7am          /proj/[d-q]*       proj20.eecs:/proj20/(sharename)



Feb 18 8pm-7am          /proj/[r-z]*       proj30.eecs:/proj30/(sharename)



Feb 19 8pm-7am          Followup/postponed and missed migrations

If migration of your project space needs to be postponed or scheduled for
a specific time, please
let us know at help@eecs. We know that downtime for
some project spaces needs to be minimized, and
we’ll do our best to coordinate another time with you.

As with the home directories, NFS exports will change. Automount maps will be updated at the designated migration start time. Re-mounts of project spaces will be necessary.

CIFS mounts should use the new node hostnames for best performance, with the
usual sharename, e.g. \\\\proj20.eecs\macsww

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Changes to Unix SWW NFS exports

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Unix SWW is moving to our new storage hardware. There are some changes
to the layout, reflecting the elimination of separately-shared subdirectories.

The new layout is available at:

https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/idsg/sww/announcement/SWW-layout

EESWW has also been migrated. See our Unix EESWW info.

Automount maps have already been updated. If you are using the automount maps
to mount SWW or EESWW, you won’t need to make any changes on your side, but you may need to
remount/reboot to begin using the revised location. Statically-configured mounts
of SWW or EESWW will need to be updated.

The old SWW locations will continue to work until at least March 15th 2016. At that
time the old exports will be terminated.
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Feb 2016 Windows Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, February 9th, 2016.

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.

Resolved as of 2016-02-10 09:11:00

Continuing Home Directory Migration

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As
previously announced, we are in process of migrating our central file storage
system to a new cluster of Network Appliance hardware. We recently completed the
first
batch of migrations.

We are planning to migrate additional home directories
according to the following schedule:

Start time
Wed Jan 27 7pm       Usernames a-h
Thu Jan 28 7pm       Usernames i-o
Fri Jan 29 7pm       Usernames p-z

You may view the list of accounts targeted for this migration here:
List of homes to migrate

We expect each night’s migration to be completed by 7am the next morning.
Home directories targeted for a given evening will become unavailable at 7pm, as
automount maps are updated. When your home directory migration is completed,
you will be sent an automated email telling you so, and it will be immediately
available for use.

If you require postponement of your home directory migration, please let us know
as soon as possible at help@eecs. We’ll do our best to accommodate you,
and schedule an alternate time for migration.

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(The following is reproduced from the previous announcement.)

If you manually mount your home directory, please read on for changes.
If you have questions about some of the technical details,
please contact your system administrator(s), or contact help@eecs.

1) NFS exports will change. AMD/automaps will be updated accordingly.
Note that this implies a re-mount.

usernames    Old                           New
a-h      home:/vol/home/eecs/<user>     home10:/home10/<user>
i-q      home:/vol/home/eecs/<user>     home20:/home20/<user>
r-z      home:/vol/home/eecs/<user>     home30:/home30/<user>

2) CIFS/Windows access will change similarly. Active Directory will be updated
accordingly, so that corresponding H: drives will be mounted from the new
location.

usernames    Old                    New
a-h      \\home\<user>        \\home10\<user>
i-q      \\home\<user>        \\home20\<user>
r-z      \\home\<user>        \\home30\<user>

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Migration of Home Directories — First Batch

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As
previously announced, we are in process of migrating our central file storage
system to a new cluster of Network Appliance hardware.

We have identified 703 home directories on home.eecs.berkeley.edu that are
not under immediate, active use, and will be migrating them to the new file
storage beginning late tonight, January 22, 2016. Active use was assessed using
timestamps of top level home directory, last Active Directory login, last CIFS access,
NFS mounts and netstat output. We anticipate that most of the migrations
in this first batch will take just a few minutes, and that the whole first batch
will be complete before Monday.

You may view the list of home directories that are part of this first-batch migration here:
List of home directories to migrate

During the migration, access to the old location will be disabled; you will
be able to access the new location immediately, as files are copied over.

Many users may never notice a difference. If you manually mount your
home directory, please read on for changes.
If you have questions about some of the technical details,
please contact your system administrator(s), or contact help@eecs.

1) NFS exports will change. AMD/automaps will be updated accordingly.
Note that this implies a re-mount.

usernames    Old                           New
a-h      home:/vol/home/eecs/<user>     home10:/home10/<user>
i-q      home:/vol/home/eecs/<user>     home20:/home20/<user>
r-z      home:/vol/home/eecs/<user>     home30:/home30/<user>

2) CIFS/Windows access will change similarly. Active Directory will be updated
accordingly, so that corresponding H: drives will be mounted from the new
location.

usernames    Old                    New
a-h      \\home\<user>        \\home10\<user>
i-q      \\home\<user>        \\home20\<user>
r-z      \\home\<user>        \\home30\<user>

We plan to schedule the migration of the remaining home directories on home.eecs
in the coming week. Please stay tuned for more information.
[Read more…] about Migration of Home Directories — First Batch