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The web interface to calendar is currently nonfunctional. The local clients should be working fine. All calendar service will be offline tonight (Thursday 20 April) starting at 8pm.

A variety of software issues have contributed to the calendar service meltdown over the past few days, starting with partial corruption of the server’s RAID array. At this time, the popup error messages that were occuring yesterday should be gone. The web interface, however, is failing to allow users to log in, giving the unhelpful error “You have timed out from your previous session. Please sign in again.”.

To address this, we will be bringing the calendar server down this evening at approximate 8pm to upgrade the server. With luck, the web interface will be up and running by tomorrow morning.

If, right now, you are unable to connect to the calendar server using a local client, please contact tmaher@eecs.berkeley.edu directly.

The EECS Department’s Calendar server is currently unavailable. Staff are investigating. We have no uptime estimate at this time.
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Title: Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for April 2006
Issued: April 11, 2006
Version Number: 1.0
Bulletin: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=64680
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Summary:
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This advisory contains information about all security updates
released this month. It is broken down by security bulletin severity.



Critical Security Bulletins
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MS06-013 - Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (912812)



- Affected Software:
- Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
- Windows XP Service Pack 1
- Windows XP Service Pack 2
- Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems
- Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems
- Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition



- Review the FAQ section of bulletin MS06-O15 for information
about these operating systems:
- Windows 98
- Windows 98 Second Edition (SE)
- Windows Millennium Edition (ME)



- Impact: Remote Code Execution
- Version Number: 1.0



MS06-014 - Vulnerability in the Microsoft Data Access Components
(MDAC) Function Could Allow Code Execution (911562)



- Affected Software:
- Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
- Windows XP Service Pack 1
- Windows XP Service Pack 2
- Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems
- Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems
- Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition



- Review the FAQ section of bulletin MS06-O15 for information
about these operating systems:
- Windows 98
- Windows 98 Second Edition (SE)
- Windows Millennium Edition (ME)



- Impact: Remote Code Execution
- Version Number: 1.0



MS06-015 - Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (912812)



- Affected Software:
- Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
- Windows XP Service Pack 1
- Windows XP Service Pack 2
- Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems
- Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems
- Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition



- Review the FAQ section of bulletin MS06-O15 for information
about these operating systems:
- Windows 98
- Windows 98 Second Edition (SE)
- Windows Millennium Edition (ME)



- Impact: Remote Code Execution
- Version Number: 1.0



Important Security Bulletins
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MS06-016 - Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express (911567)



- Affected Software:
- Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
- Windows XP Service Pack 1
- Windows XP Service Pack 2
- Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems
- Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems
- Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition



- Review the FAQ section of bulletin MS0X-OYZ for information
about these operating systems:
- Windows 98
- Windows 98 Second Edition (SE)
- Windows Millennium Edition (ME)



- Impact: Remote Code Execution
- Version Number: 1.0



Moderate Security Bulletins
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MS06-017 - Vulnerability in Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions
Could Allow Cross-Site Scripting (917627)



- Affected Software:
- Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
- Windows XP Service Pack 1
- Windows XP Service Pack 2
- Windows XP 64-Bit Edition Service Pack 1 (Itanium)
- Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems
- Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems
- Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
- Microsoft SharePoint Team Service






- Review the FAQ section of bulletin MS0X-OYZ for information
about these operating systems:
- Windows 98
- Windows 98 Second Edition (SE)
- Windows Millennium Edition (ME)



- Impact: Remote Code Execution
- Version Number: 1.0

Late this afternoon our core router in Soda Hall had a hard failure on one of the management switch modules. When the router tried to fail over to the backup module, it also, exhibited a failure. I have rebooted the first module and network service has been restored. However, there may still be a problem and we are addressing this now with the vendor. Further outages may occur without warning until we get this resolved. I regret the inconvenience this may cause.

[Read more…] about Network Outage

I will replace a new network hardware on Soda 4th floor (soda4b)on Thursday April 13,2006. There will be brief network outages from 5:30PM to 6:00PM.

This will affect users who use wired connection on the east side of 4th floor. Since our wireless network feeds into our switched infrastructure at several locations in Soda, there will also be a couple of brief outages to the wireless network from floors 4-5 as well.

I regret any inconvenience this may cause. Please make your plans accordingly.

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, April 11, 2006. HERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will be down for patching the following Wednesday, April 12, 2006, from 3:00p¿5:00p.

macserver.eecs.berkeley.edu, which hosts the Mac software warehouse, will be down for maintenance at this time as well.

Most of the IDSG-supported services, which includes Active
Directory (EECS domain), DNS, and the network connection to campus, will be shut down on Thursday, March 30th, between 7:00 and 8:30 AM. This will be coinciding with the network upgrade in Soda Hall. In particular, this will affect fileservers coeus and project, as well as the IMAP server.

[Read more…] about IDSG services shutdown on Thursday

A network switch located on the 5th floor of Soda Hall is off-line.

IDSG network staff are looking into the problem and will have it resolved as soon as possible.

[Read more…] about Network switch off-line on 5th floor of Soda Hall

The EECS Helpdesk in 313 Soda hall will be closed from March 27, 2006 through March 31, 2006 (Spring Break) due to a staff shortage. The Helpdesk is staffed almost entirely by UC Berkeley undergrads, most of whom will be out of town this week.

The Helpdesk in 395 Cory Hall will remain open during normal business hours.

If you happen to stop by the Helpdesk this week, make sure to thank the student(s) working for deciding to stay around during their vacation!

As some of you may have noticed, we’ve had a couple of network outages this weekend. IDSG staff is working on the issue. We hope that the steps taken so far will prevent further outages until we can talk to the vendor; however, there is a chance of the problem coming back before Monday. We will continue to monitor the situation and will attempt to respond ASAP.