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Mail delivery to Exchange accounts stuck

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The BWRC Ironport anti-spam appliance, which processes email for EECS Exchange server FONTUS as well as the BWRC Exchange server, started deferring new mail delivery sometime Saturday evening.

Exchange users would notice no new email in their accounts, and senders would receive a notice that their message was temporarily deferred. Mail delivery is only deferred; it should be correctly delivered once the issue is resolved.
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Services Impacted by Cory Power Outage

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As previously announced via email, Cory Hall is scheduled for a power outage on March 22nd:

> Cory Hall Occupants,
>
> In order to perform maintenance on the main Cory Hall power
> transformers, Campus Physical Plant has scheduled a building-wide power
> shutdown during spring break on Monday, 3-22-10. The power to the
> building will be shutdown from 8am-8pm.
>
> For safety reasons, building Access will be prohibited (cardkey system
> disabled) from 11:50pm Sunday, 3-21-10 to 8pm Monday, 3-22-10.
>
> In preparation for the shutdown, please be sure to power off and unplug
> all electrical equipment in your workspace prior to leaving for Spring
> Break. (Electrical equipment includes computers, monitors, heaters &
> fans. Unplug power strips!).
>
> Please also remember to remove food items from refrigerators prior to
> leaving for Spring Break.
>
> Finally, make sure all doors are locked and windows are closed.

This outage will affect various servers in Cory Hall, including the EECS Exchange servers FONTUS and OWA; some Instructional servers (see http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/notices.html#spring-break); and license service for Cadence and Synopsys licenses.

All Cory Hall networking will be down during the power outage.

Exchange service should be restored by late Monday evening, after power is restored. All remaining services should be back online by midday Tuesday.

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Discount MacOSX Leopard Licenses Are Available

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Apple releases its newest OS, dubbed “Snow Leopard” (Mac OS X 10.6), on
Friday, August 28, 2009.

Various updates and improvements are advertised for Snow Leopard,
including faster wakeup and shutdown,
and using less disk space (due to only Intel Macs being supported).

The retail cost of Snow Leopard will be $169, but
the Helpdesk still has discounted licenses for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) available,
which may reduce your cost of upgrading.
Note that if you purchased a machine with Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 recently
(after June 8, which includes the new batch of Macbooks ordered
through the department), then you are eligible to
purchase a Snow Leopard upgrade for only $9.95 from Apple. See Apple’s
Up-to-Date program
details for more information.

The cost of upgrading to Snow Leopard from Leopard is only $29 (available
directly from Apple,
or from The Scholar’s Workstation).

The Helpdesk currently has $39 licenses for Leopard available,
and media available for $15 purchase or on loan. If you haven’t yet upgraded
your Mac to Leopard, or haven’t yet purchased a Leopard license, then
this upgrade path to Snow Leopard provides a sizable discount.

Please feel free to contact help@eecs for further information.