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March 2013 Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, March 12th, 2013.

PRINT, WDS and WINTERM will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, March 13th, 2013, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM will be unavailable till 10:00am Wednesday, March 13th, 2013.

Resolved as of 2013-03-15 09:53:00

project.eecs short disruption in service at 6:30pm today.

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project.eecs will have a short disruption of service at 6:30 pm today. This maintenance should last no longer than 15 minutes, and home.eecs should takeover for project during the downtime. Most home directory accesses should recover gracefully from the disruption. Windows mounts may require a re-connection.

Apologies for the short notice. Normally at least 24 hours would be provided before the maintenance window, but this work is required to prevent a more serious problem.
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Wednesday March 6th Wireless Maintenance

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We will be performing maintenance on the IRIS wireless networks in Soda on Wednesday March 6th, 2013 from 7am to 8am. Wireless devices in Soda may experience a short interruption of service, while devices in Cory and Sutardja Dai should be unaffected. If your wireless service is affected during this maintenance, please attempt to release and renew your dhcp lease or disable and enable wireless networking on your machine once the maintenance window has ended. If issues continue to occur, please contact the helpdesk.

Resolved as of 2013-03-06 08:00:00

OS X Mountain Lion Site License

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Now available to the EECS/IRIS community: OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)!

IRIS has purchased a pool of licenses for OS X Mountain Lion, to make it
easier and more cost-effective for those in the EECS/IRIS community to upgrade.
Licenses purchased in volume cost us $9.99 per seat, versus the retail price
of $19.99 per seat. At this time we are assuming the cost, and not charging
people for individual licenses.

If you are going to use the Installer on
multiple machines, please let us know how many, so we can better track our
license purchases. Similarly, if your Mac already came with Mountain Lion or
was eligible for a free upgrade (Summer 2012 or newer), then let us know — we
can loan the installer to you without needing to pay Apple for an extra license.

You may borrow Mountain Lion installation media at the Helpdesk
(395 Cory Hall) — we can loan you a DVD, or help transfer the installer via USB
to your laptop or USB key (8 Gb or larger). We cannot provide direct downloads
of the Mountain Lion installer at this time.

To check whether an older system is capable of running OS X Mountain Lion,
please consult Apple’s System
requirements for OS X Mountain Lion.

Snow Leopard (10.6) and Lion (10.7) systems should apply standard Mac updates
before running the Mountain Lion installer. Earlier systems (e.g. Leopard, 10.5)
may find the following article useful:
How to install Mountain Lion over Leopard

home.eecs short disruption of service at about 1pm today

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home.eecs had a short disruption of service during an unplanned failover to its partner filer at about 1:00 pm today. Service has been restored and most home directory accesses should have recovered gracefully from the disruption. Windows mounts may require a re-connection.
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