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Problems Activating Windows 7 or Microsoft Project

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New installs of Windows 7 (either using WDS network install or a DVD install) or of Microsoft Project (available on WINSWW) require activation of their license over the network.

Coincidentally, the license keys for both of these products have reached the limit set for our usage, so activation attempts are failing. We have already made requests to SHI (our campus software and license provider) to increase the limits set on our Multiple Activation Key (MAK) licenses, and hope to have resolution soon.

Microsoft Project should continue to work for up to 30 days without activation. Windows 7, unfortunately, may only work normally for 3 days unless activation completes.
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Feb 2012 Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, February 14th, 2012.

PRINT and WINTERM will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, February 15th, 2012, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM will be unavailable till 10:00am, Wednesday, February 15th, 2012.

Resolved as of 2012-02-16 13:08:00

BWRC Network around 1:00PM on Feb 9

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IST staff will replace the media converter at BWRC to try to solve the outgoing packet loss issue. It should take about 10-15 mins. BWRC outgoing network traffic will be affected. BWRC internal network traffic will still remain working. We will schedule about 1 hour maintenance window in case something unexpected occur. If you have any question, please send email to networks@eecs.

Resolved as of 2012-02-09 13:10:00

EMERGENCY SCHED MAINTENANCE: potentially campus-wide impact

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ucb-net-announce@lists.berkeley.edu writes:

EMERGENCY SCHED MAINTENANCE potentially campus-wide impact thu 2 feb 2012 1500 – 1600

Equipment: inr-002 campus border router Location: potentially campus-wide impact Date: thu 2 feb 2012 Start: 1500 End: 1600

Description: an FPC (interface module) in inr-002, one of UCB’s two border routers connecting to the CalREN networks, has failed and must be replaced. i’m scheduling an emergency maintenance window 1500-1600 tomorrow, thu 2 feb 2012, for swapping out the failed FPC with a replacement unit. (this assumes the replacement FPC will arrive early enough tomorrow for the scheduled maintenance window.)

FPCs are hot-swappable (and the one currently in the router is already offline), so i don’t anticipate any disruption to campus’s external connectivity. however, to be doubly sure, i will have previously moved all external traffic off this router and onto inr-001, the redundant border router.

ken lindahl IST-Telecommunications-Network Operations and Services

Resolved as of 2012-02-02 16:00:00