Instructional & Research Information Systems
The power to the 165 Cory machine room is out, which affects a number of Instructional and research servers hosted there; a number of user-facing services are currently experiencing high latency or interruption.
Our staff electrician is on site and investigating.
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Resolved as of 2013-03-22 09:55:00
Now available to the EECS/IRIS community: OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)!
IRIS has purchased a pool of licenses for OS X Mountain Lion, to make it
easier and more cost-effective for those in the EECS/IRIS community to upgrade.
Licenses purchased in volume cost us $9.99 per seat, versus the retail price
of $19.99 per seat. At this time we are assuming the cost, and not charging
people for individual licenses.
If you are going to use the Installer on
multiple machines, please let us know how many, so we can better track our
license purchases. Similarly, if your Mac already came with Mountain Lion or
was eligible for a free upgrade (Summer 2012 or newer), then let us know — we
can loan the installer to you without needing to pay Apple for an extra license.
You may borrow Mountain Lion installation media at the Helpdesk
(395 Cory Hall) — we can loan you a DVD, or help transfer the installer via USB
to your laptop or USB key (8 Gb or larger). We cannot provide direct downloads
of the Mountain Lion installer at this time.
To check whether an older system is capable of running OS X Mountain Lion,
please consult Apple’s System
requirements for OS X Mountain Lion.
Snow Leopard (10.6) and Lion (10.7) systems should apply standard Mac updates
before running the Mountain Lion installer. Earlier systems (e.g. Leopard, 10.5)
may find the following article useful:
How to install Mountain Lion over Leopard
winterm.eecs remains down after Tuesday’s unexpected network flood (see also https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/news/8094-unexpected-network-flood ).
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IST reports that a number of campus buildings experienced a temporary power outage this morning, including Cory, Soda, and other College of Engineering buildings.
Staff are working to ensure that services are restored to normal.
Campus may post updates as more information is learned, at http://ucbsystems.org/
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Activation of new Windows 7 installs is currently failing, due to our license limit being reached. EECS Staff have already contacted campus, who has contacted SHI (the Microsoft reseller for UCB). We hope to have the limit increased soon, so activations of Windows 7 can proceed normally.
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The department Windows terminal server winterm.eecs has apparently crashed, and is currently offline. Staff are alerted and will investigate.
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A critical vulnerability in the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is addressed by a patch that Microsoft released for the March 2012 Patch Tuesday (patch MS12-020).
Exploit code for the RDP vulnerability has been made available online, so it’s especially important that this patch be applied as soon as possible to any Windows machines that have RDP enabled. Note that the campus Minimum Security Standard for Networked Devices dictates that
All currently available security patches must be applied on a schedule appropriate to the severity of the risk they mitigate.
We encourage you to apply all relevant Microsoft updates for any Windows machines you manage.
See also:
The EECS Exchange service on FONTUS will be undergoing maintenance on Monday, February 20 (Presidents’ Day), beginning at about noon.
We will be defragmenting the Exchange database, which may take 3-5 hours. Service will resume once the defragmenting is complete.
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New installs of Windows 7 (either using WDS network install or a DVD install) or of Microsoft Project (available on WINSWW) require activation of their license over the network.
Coincidentally, the license keys for both of these products have reached the limit set for our usage, so activation attempts are failing. We have already made requests to SHI (our campus software and license provider) to increase the limits set on our Multiple Activation Key (MAK) licenses, and hope to have resolution soon.
Microsoft Project should continue to work for up to 30 days without activation. Windows 7, unfortunately, may only work normally for 3 days unless activation completes.
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