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Secutity Alert: MS Updates for Multiple SMB Vulnerabilities

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With yesterdays patches, Microsoft released updates to address vulnerabilities in the Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol that affects all supported versions Microsoft Windows.

Please make sure your device has this patch, KB958687.

For more information or to download the specific patch for your Windows version see;

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-001.mspx

January 2009 Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009.

PRINT, RIS, WINTERM and WINSWW will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, January 14th, at 3:00 am.

macserver.eecs will be down for patching and maintenance Wednesday, January 14th, from 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.

Resolved as of 2009-01-14 13:28:00

WINSWW Software Update

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The below list of software will be retired from winsww.eecs effective Feb 1st. The installers will no longer be available for download nor via the Add Remove Control Panel in Windows.

This software is maintained (and far more up to date) in other locations. Those locations are documented at winsww\sww\public\software.txt

adobe_reader,
allegro_cl,
cygwin,
exceed,
firefox,
ghostscript,
gsview,
java,
miktex,
oracle_calendar,
perl,
putty,
python,
remote desktop,
symantec,
t60updates,
tcl,
texpoint,
thunderbird,
treesize,
cisco vpn client,
windows services for unix,
xemacs
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Brief Network Disruption.

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All connectivity between EECS and the outside world was briefly disrupted. The exact cause of the outage is unknown; log messages are inconclusive. The primary symptom was dropped OSPF routes on the links which traverse the EECS firewall links. While nobody was actively working on the equipment at that time, it’s possible this outage is related to preliminary testing of new 10GB network links to campus. The problem seems to have resolved itself.

Resolved as of 2009-01-05 16:24:00

Multiple Services Offline for About Eight Hours

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The EECS website, FTP server, Jabber server and Sympa mailing-list server were offline for about eight hours on Sunday, Dec 28, 2008 beginning at 2:48 p.m.

The virtualization cluster that hosts these services experienced a failure when the network switch that supplies its management network was rebooted during the [scheduled network maintenance](https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/news/2246-eecs-network-maintenance-sunday-dec). We didn’t notice the failure until this evening, but were able to restore service quickly once we realized what was wrong.

I apologize for the length of the downtime and am planning on working to make the cluster more robust and improve our notification and monitoring so that any future issues will be noticed more quickly.

Resolved as of 2008-12-28 22:32:00

EECS Network Maintenance Sunday Dec 28th

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We will be upgrading the network in Soda Hall beginning at 2PM on Sunday, Dec 28th. There will be several network outages as most switches in Soda will be upgraded at this time. While each outage is expected to be brief, there will be several so the network throughout EECS and BWRC may be unstable during this time. This effects both wired and wireless networking. We are allowing a 4 hour window as there are so many switches to upgrade. All work should be complete by 6PM. We regret any inconvenience this may cause.
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First floor switch reboot, Dec 22

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There will be a reboot of a switch (calp115-2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU) on the first floor of Cory Hall on Monday at 8:00 am, to clear an error. The switch should recover within a few minutes so it is likely not to affect anyone.