Lars Rohrbach

Our primary machine room, 290 Soda, has lost battery backup power, due to the explosion of one or more batteries in the APC cabinet. These batteries were recently installed (May, 2016); building staff are coordinating warranty coverage and replacement.

No systems were affected by the loss of battery backup, but at this time all systems in 290 Soda are fully reliant on building power. This includes many IRIS and Instructional systems and services.

We will update this News item with the expected timeline of replacing the battery backup, as that information becomes available.

Replacement of batteries may take a week or more, depending on availability from the vendor.
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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.

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.