IRIS

Instructional & Research Information Systems

EECS

Highlights

Highlighted news items and key announcements.

Recommendation: Delay Upgrading to MacOS Monterey and Windows 11

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As with any major OS release, we recommend a cautious approach, especially where your primary device is concerned. Major releases often bring new compatibility or support issues, which may take some time for the vendor to address with patches and updates.

Windows 11 was released recently, and MacOS Monterey is being released today, Monday, October 25. We encourage you to delay upgrading your systems to these new releases, until after such time as IT staff have tested them in our EECS and campus environment.

UPDATE (12/22/2021): As announced campus-wide yesterday by our CIO, Jenn Stringer, both MacOS Monterey and Windows 11 seem to have no compatibility issues with campus applications and tools, including wifi and the VPN. This matches the experience of our local staff.

NIS Retirement in EECS, Dec 2020

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To: System Administrators of Unix / Linux devices
Subject: Retirement of IRIS NIS service in EECS

IRIS NIS (Network Information Services)  allows Unix computers to look up IRIS usernames, groups, passwords and other information from IRIS NIS servers.

Dating back to before the creation of IRIS, NIS service has been supported in the EECS Department.   Now, IRIS provides the LDAP protocol as a replacement for NIS. This is now our supported service for distributing Unix username, password and group data. IRIS LDAP service features  multiple redundant servers, and is updated in real-time with user account data.

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New IRIS website launched

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Welcome 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!