Instructional & Research Information Systems
A vulnerability has been publicly disclosed in the Mac version (<= 4.4.1) of Zoom that allows any website to forcibly join a user to a Zoom call, with their video camera activated, without the user’s permission.
If you have the Zoom conferencing client software installed on a Mac, please be sure to update it to the latest version, or uninstall it completely.
See also the campus security announcement and recommendations here:
On Monday evening, July 22, we will be taking the next step in our fileserver migration: moving network interfaces from the old system to the new system. This will result in brief interruptions of access to home directories and project shares.
Our expectation is that each move of a network interface should only take a minute or so, and that most NFS and CIFS clients will likely recover just fine without a reboot. Any ongoing file copies or moves will be interrupted and terminated; any unsaved file editing should be closed before the maintenance period.
For any systems experiencing issues after maintenance is completed, a reboot would be recommended.
[Read more…] about NetApp fileserver maintenance – Phase III: Mon, July 22, 6-8pmMicrosoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, July 9th, 2019.
PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, July 10th, at 3:00 am.
WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, July 10th, depending on additional software updates.
If you received a 15-inch MacBook Pro from our Summer 2016 bulk purchase, you’ll likely be eligible to have your battery replaced, avoiding a potential fire safety risk.
Under “About This Mac,” eligible models should be displayed as “MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015).” If you have that model, please visit the Apple support page below, where you can enter your serial number to confirm whether your laptop is eligible for battery replacement, and you can find instructions for getting it replaced:
https://support.apple.com/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall
We are happy to announce the new version of winterm.eecs, our Windows Remote Desktop server. On Wednesday morning, June12, during the Windows patch cycle, we will update IP addresses to put the new server in place.
The new winterm.eecs runs Windows Server 2016, so it has the look and feel of a Windows 10 device. All of the usual software has been installed for you — if you notice something missing that you’ve been relying on, feel free to let us know at help@eecs. We have copied local profile data from the old winterm.eecs to the new one, to ease your transition.
The old winterm.eecs will remain available as “winterm-old.eecs.berkeley.edu” until the end of June.
PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, June 12th, at 3:00 am.
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, June 11th, 2019.
WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, June 12th, depending on additional software updates.
[Read more…] about June 2019 Windows Server PatchingAs part of our NetApp fileserver refresh cycle, we have a NetApp technician scheduled to be on site June 19, to assist with installation of the new hardware, and transfer of storage racks from the old NetApp system to the new one. Work is planned to take place between noon and 2pm.
Our expectation is that this work will not be disruptive to existing fileservice, but it involves a good amount of work around the existing hardware, so there is potential for unexpected problems.
PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, May 15th, at 3:00 am.
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, May 14th, 2019.
WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, May 15th, depending on additional software updates.
[Read more…] about May 2019 Windows Server Patchingrepo.eecs will be unavailable on Monday, May 6, 2019 from 10am – noon. Staff will be performing maintenance on the virtual machine infrastructure that supports repo.eecs.
During this maintenance window, repositories hosted on repo.eecs will not be accessible, and the web interface at https://repo.eecs.berkeley.edu will also not be accessible.
[Read more…] about Maintenance downtime for repo.eecs — May 6, 10am-noonWelcome to our new version of iris.eecs!
We hope to provide a more modern experience, with a site that is newly-designed, responsive, and readily-available, even during times of local network disruption.
Information, announcements, and FAQ pages have been migrated to this new site. You should still be able to find our forms and info in similar places. Some forms (e.g. account requests, and system registrations) will continue to be handled by local servers, using the same familiar interface.
Over time, we will be updating content, and handling any formatting that didn’t get migrated properly. If you happen to notice any glaring omissions or problems, please feel free to report them to help@eecs.
We hope you enjoy the new iris.eecs!