There will be a short, scheduled maintenance/upgrade on home and project for the hour specified. IMAP will also be affected by this upgrade. The reserved downtime is 1 hour, but most likely the actual downtime will be less.
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Unscheduled Outage of Several Departmental Services
The virtual cluster that hosts these services is being restarted and services should resume by 3:30 pm.
Resolved as of 2010-11-11 15:05:00
idsg.EECS.Berkeley.EDU provided services are down
DHCP activations and updates for mobile devices and
desktops without a fixed IP address are not being processed.
DHCP support for mobile devices and
desktops without a fixed IP address is currently frozen
with the last update happening at Thursday November 11, 2010 12:30.
While trying to fix this issue, the IDSG web server and
the pages it server went off the network.
Staff is working on resolving these issues.
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Nov 2010 Server Patching
PRINT, WDS and WINTERM will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, Nov 10th, at 3:00 am.
Resolved as of 2010-11-10 13:08:00
New SSL Certificate Service
UC Berkeley is a member of the [InCommon](http://www.incommonfederation.org/cert/) federation. One benefit of our membership is unlimited free SSL certificates for berkeley.edu hosts.
IRIS staff have been delegated the ability to create InCommon-Comodo SSL certificates for the subdomains used on the IRIS networks.
If you are the registered system administrator of a device on the IRIS network, please use [this webform](https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/forms/cert-request.html) to submit CSRs to IRIS staff instead of contacting calnet-pki@lists.b.e.
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IRIS Website down for maintenance, Wednesday 5pm
This will affect the news and documentation portion of the IRIS website, as well as the Network and Roster applications.
This downtime will be used to upgrade the web application software to a newer version.
Resolved as of 2010-11-03 17:43:00
AirBears Maintenance
The outage should only last about 15 minutes at each location listed in the IST announcement.
Resolved as of 2010-10-18 08:00:00
NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units – Recall/Repair
NOTICE: Those who purchased Apple MacBook Pros through the department’s 2007-2008 bulk purchase may be qualified for a settlement/recall/repair from NVIDIA. Individual purchases of the above-mentioned models would also be qualified. Read about this and other laptops (Dell and HP) equipped with NVIDIA chip:
http://www.nvidiasettlement.com/index.html
For specifics about Apple MacBook Pros 2007-2008, list of symptoms, products affected, and resolutions, please read:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2377
From the NVIDIA website:
“Although your notebook computer may be an eligible model, not every notebook computer on the list of Affected Models is eligible to participate. To be eligible to file a claim, your notebook computer must contain an NVIDIA chip, it must have an eligible Serial Number and it must be experiencing one of the symptoms in the List of Identified Symptoms.”
Therefore, in order to receive anything from the settlement, you must also be experiencing specific problems stated in the lawsuit. If you find that your laptop qualifies and are interested in filing an individual claim, follow the links on the NVDIA lawsuit website given above. The claim period begins on December 20, 2010.
Oct 2010 Server Patching
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, Oct 12th, 2010.
PRINT, WDS and WINTERM will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, Oct 13th, at 3:00 am.
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Mail delivery to Exchange accounts stuck
The BWRC Ironport anti-spam appliance, which processes email for EECS Exchange server FONTUS as well as the BWRC Exchange server, started deferring new mail delivery sometime Saturday evening.
Exchange users would notice no new email in their accounts, and senders would receive a notice that their message was temporarily deferred. Mail delivery is only deferred; it should be correctly delivered once the issue is resolved.
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