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out of band patching for Windows Servers; IE

September 21, 2012 by IRIS Staff

Due to the severity of the exploit in Microsoft’s browser IE, winterm, print and wds will be patched today, at 3:00 PM.

Please be prepared for a reboot at that time.

To read further about the exploit see; http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2757760

-W

Resolved as of 2012-09-21 16:00:00

idsg webserver update

September 20, 2012 by Mark Kraitchman

Content under http://idsg.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
and https://idsg.EECS.Berkeley.EDU will
be moving to a different web server using the
same URLs on Tuesday September 25, 2012

Please report any issues to the IRIS helpdesk

September 19, 2012 login.eecs downtime

September 19, 2012 by Mark Kraitchman

login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU will be down for patching and needed reboot to activate changes delivered by some Oracle patches.

Though the scheduled downtime is 6:30am to 8am, we expect actual downtime to be much less.
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EECS Secure wireless issues

September 11, 2012 by IRIS Staff

Clients are having trouble obtaining leases on the EECS-Secure wireless network. IRIS staff are investigating the issue.

In the meantime, it is suggested to use EECS-Open or Airbears.
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Sept 2012 Server Patching

September 11, 2012 by IRIS Staff

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, September 11th, 2012.

PRINT, WDS and WINTERM will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, September 12th, 2012, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM will be unavailable, to update all software, till 10:00am September 12th, 2012.

Resolved as of 2012-09-17 10:02:00

September 11, 2012 login.eecs downtime

September 11, 2012 by Mark Kraitchman

Though the scheduled downtime is 6:30am to 8am, we expect actual downtime to be much less.

Emergency maintenance (2 of 2) for EECS-Secure wireless from 6-8am, Tuesday Sept 11th, 2012

September 11, 2012 by IRIS Staff

We will be performing emergency maintenance for EECS-Secure wireless from 6-8am, Tuesday Sept 11th, 2012. During this window you may experience a brief interruption of service. We are changing the subnet for EECS-Secure during this time. If you lose service you can restart your networking to release and renew your DHCP lease to obtain an IP address on the new subnet. Alternately, you can use the EECS, EECS-Open, or AirBears SSIDs which will NOT be affected by the outage during this period tonight.

This is emergency maintenance window 2 of 2.
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Emergency maintenance (1 of 2) for EECS-Open wireless from 8-9pm tonight, Monday Sept 10th, 2012

September 10, 2012 by IRIS Staff

We will be performing emergency maintenance for EECS-Open wireless from 8-9pm tonight, Monday Sept 10th, 2012. During this window you may experience a brief interruption of service. We are changing the subnet for EECS-Open during this time. If you lose service you can restart your networking to release and renew your DHCP lease to obtain an IP address on the new subnet. Alternately, you can use the EECS, EECS-Secure, or AirBears SSIDs which will NOT be affected by the outage during this period tonight.

This is emergency maintenance window 1 of 2.
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Cadence License Server outage

September 7, 2012 by Rob McNicholas

The Cadence license server (bisc.eecs.berkeley.edu) is not serving licenses at this time. The issue is reported to have started sometime on Friday.

The problem appears to be related to the recent installation of some operating system patches. Staff are working to resolve the problem.
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EECS Secure wireless network

September 5, 2012 by IRIS Staff

Users are experiencing trouble using the EECS Secure wireless network. The available IP pool is full and we are working to free up IP space for the network.

During this outage, you may wish to use [one of our other wireless networks](/10-services/wireless.html) such as EECS-Open or Airbears.

We appreciate your patience.
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