IRIS

Instructional & Research Information Systems

EECS

Ongoing

Any ongoing service-related issues are listed in this category.

July 2020 Windows Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, July 14th, 2020. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, July 15th, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, July 15th, depending on additional software updates.

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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