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end of life for Microsoft Windows XP

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Support ends for Microsoft Windows XP April 8, 2014 –

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/endofsupport.aspx

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/products/lifecycle

By default after April 8, 2014, devices running
Microsoft Windows XP should not be connected to the campus networks.

Running a device with an operating system past its end of life
is not compliant with the “software patch updates” standard of
the MSSND (Minimum Security Standards for Networked
Devices) at

http://security.berkeley.edu/MinStds

Please plan to upgrade or replace all devices running
Microsoft Windows XP before April 8, 2014.

Questions about this may be directed to the
IRIS help desk (help@eecs, 395 Cory 9:30am-5pm,
642-7777). For advanced help, please consider hiring CUSG.

Jabber server down for maintenance, June 4, 9pm

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The department’s jabber server (jabber.eecs.berkeley.edu) will be upgraded to [the newest version of Openfire](http://www.igniterealtime.org/builds/openfire/docs/latest/changelog.html) on June 4th at 9pm.

The jabber/xmpp service will be shut down at 9pm and should be back up no later than 9:15pm.

Resolved as of 2013-06-04 21:03:00

Network cable switchover and disk upgrades for IRIS file servers on June 4th at 3pm

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On 3:00pm, Tuesday, June 4th, 2013, the network cables for cluster.eecs and inst-fs.eecs will be replaced in an effort to create more easily managed infrastructure. In addition, disk upgrades will take place on all department filers to increase available space. Minimal interruption of service is anticipated. NFS and CIFS mounts should reconnect automatically, although some windows mounts may need to be re-mounted. Maintenance may extend as long as 5pm, though system interruption should be a very short part of this window.

Resolved as of 2013-06-04 17:34:00

Filers change to support Windows 8

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In order to move towards greater support for Windows 8 in the department, SMB2 signing has been enabled on the filers. No adverse impact should be experienced, but please contact the helpdesk if your Windows mounts or CIFS shares start to act strangely.

Web, Mailing Lists, Jabber patching Wednesday, May 15th

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Because May 14th is “Patch Tuesday”, the Department’s web servers, mailing list server, and jabber server will be patched and rebooted at 7am Wednesday, May 15th [1]. Total downtime is expected to be just a few minutes.

This will affect the following public-facing servers:
  • www.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • www.cs.berkeley.edu
  • lists.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • apps.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • iris.eecs.berkeley.edu


as well as all the below sites which are hosted on www.eecs.berkeley.edu. Please send any questions to [the IRIS helpdesk](http://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/help).



Websites also affected by this brief outage:

  • aima.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • autoconfig.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • autoconfig.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • autodiscover.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • autodiscover.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • basics.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • bavm2010.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • bayesianlogic.cs.berkeley.edu
  • bitblaze.cs.berkeley.edu
  • bjc.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • blackouts.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • bnrg.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • brass.cs.berkeley.edu
  • byob.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • c-bicc.cs.berkeley.edu
  • cc05.cs.berkeley.edu
  • cognitivecomputing2007.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • crest.berkeley.edu
  • cs4hs.berkeley.edu
  • csedday.berkeley.edu
  • daedalus.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • deter.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • droidblaze.cs.berkeley.edu
  • eecs.org
  • endeavour.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • forms4usall.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • gasnet.cs.berkeley.edu
  • graphics.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • harmonia.cs.berkeley.edu
  • hdp.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • i3.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • iceberg.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • idsg.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • idsg.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • intelli-sec.cs.berkeley.edu
  • iptps03.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • istcsc.cs.berkeley.edu
  • itcs.cs.berkeley.edu
  • iwqos03.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • javasketch.cs.berkeley.edu
  • lithonet.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • mobicom2003.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • nanophotonics.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • nano.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • nlp.cs.berkeley.edu
  • nonlinear.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • oasis.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • obrien.berkeley.edu
  • Ocala.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • OpenNetLab.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
  • optoelectronics.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • orange.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • osq.cs.berkeley.edu
  • overmind.cs.berkeley.edu
  • powersoc2012.org
  • power.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
  • quantum.cs.berkeley.edu
  • rv2011.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • safetp.cs.berkeley.edu
  • sahara.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • security.cs.berkeley.edu
  • simons.berkeley.edu
  • sipc.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • syslunch.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • tenet.berkeley.edu
  • theory.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • tier-share.cs.berkeley.edu
  • titanium.cs.berkeley.edu
  • tracehost.cs.berkeley.edu
  • ucbvax.berkeley.edu
  • webblaze.cs.berkeley.edu
  • webtp.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
  • www-bisc.cs.berkeley.edu
  • www-cryo.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • www-device.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • www-w2k.cs.berkeley.edu
  • www-wavelet.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • xisa.cs.berkeley.edu
  • zadeh.cs.berkeley.edu




[1] *Please Note: The original version of this news item incorrectly listed the date as May 8th.*

Resolved as of 2013-05-15 07:30:00

LDAP & Jabber outage this morning, May 15, 2013

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The department’s primary LDAP server ldap.eecs stopped responding early this morning around 12:30am. This affected a few other services which rely on ldap.eecs; we had reports of problems accessing Repo, and jabber.eecs stopped accepting connections at some point.

ldap.eecs was restarted at 7:00am and this would have restored most affected services. However, the jabber server seemed to be hung and had to be restarted; this was not noticed until around 10:30am.

Our ldap servers are aging and there is a current project underway to upgrade them to more modern hardware and software. An announcement about the scope of this project will be made in the coming weeks.

We are also planning to implement better monitoring of our jabber server so that future outages will be detected much more quickly.

Resolved as of 2013-05-15 07:00:00

May 2013 Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, May 14th, 2013.

PRINT and WINTERM will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, May 15th, 2013, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM will be unavailable till 10:00am May 15th, 2013.

Resolved as of 2013-05-17 11:43:00

May 3, 2013 directory server malfunctioning

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LDAP directory service from ldap.CS.Berkeley.EDU was malfunctioning from about Friday May 3, 2013 01:56 to about 06:57.

It appears authenticated outgoing smtp service on gateway.EECS.Berkeley.EDU also malfunctioned during that time frame when gateway.EECS.Berkeley.EDU failed to use ldap.EECS.Berkeley.EDU for LDAP directory service instead of ldap.CS.Berkeley.EDU

Resolved as of 2013-05-03 06:57:00