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/var/mail service ending on argus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU

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As originally planned back in 2005, email service
for people using mailspool.CS.Berkeley.EDU will
end Monday August 10, 2009.

mailspool.CS.Berkeley.EDU will no longer accept
incoming email for members of the IRIS community.

mailspools from mailspool.CS.Berkeley.EDU will
no longer be available on argus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
in /var/mail

July 2009 Microsoft out of band patching

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Microsoft is releasing critical patches for IE out of band. Production servers will be down for patching.

PRINT, RIS, WINTERM and WINSWW will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, July 29th, at 3:00 am.

Further reading is available at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-034.mspx

Resolved as of 2009-07-29 11:14:00

IRIS website offline unexpectedly

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The IRIS website went offline unexpectedly around 11:06pm Friday, July 17th. I was trying to debug a problem with the firewall when all access to the internet was interrupted.

Service was restored around midnight.

My apologies for the outage.

Resolved as of 2009-07-18 00:00:00

July 2009 Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, July 14th, 2009.

PRINT, RIS, WINTERM and WINSWW will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, July 15th, at 3:00 am.

macserver.eecs will be down for patching and maintenance Wednesday, July 15th, from 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.

Resolved as of 2009-07-15 11:50:00

Firmware upgrade: EECS border router

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Tuesday July 14th at 7:00AM, we will be upgrading software on the EECS department border router. During the outage, all EECS networks will be disconnected from the Internet, including Soda, Cory, Sutardja Dai,BWRC, and portions of HMMB. The work should only take a few minutes,but we’re reserving a 30-minute window in case of problems.

Please plan accordingly.

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VPN Service Changes

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IST is replacing the campus VPN concentrator. The new system is live as of Monday, July 13th.

The old VPN service hosts a separate instance which allows access using EECS usernames and passwords. Due to low use and because it no longer provides unique functionality, IRIS has elected to end this EECS VPN service on August 12, 2009 when IST decommissions the old VPN hardware.

The new VPN requires new Cisco AnyConnect client software and you will need to login using your Calnet ID rather than EECS credentials.

In addition to adding 64-bit Windows support, the new VPN supports IPv6 transport across the tunnel.

IST has provided comprehensive documentation on the new VPN service and the client software:

http://inews.berkeley.edu/articles/Jul2009/VPN

http://www.net.berkeley.edu/vpn/

https://kb.berkeley.edu/kb2665

vulnerability in Internet Explorer

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Microsoft posted Security Advisory (972890)
entitled “Vulnerability in Microsoft Video ActiveX
Control Could Allow Remote Code Execution” on
Monday July 6, 2009 –

The flaw affects people running Internet Explorer
on machines running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003.
A remote, unauthenticated attacker could execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the victim user.

For such devices, it is recommended that
Microsoft Video ActiveX Control be disabled from
running in Internet Explorer –
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972890#FixItForMe

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/180513
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Cory Router to Undergo Code Maintenance

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On Tuesday July 7th at 6:30am, the main Cory Router will undergo code maintenance till 7am. This will affect ALL network activity in Cory Hall with the exception of a few hard wired ports in 2nd floor campus classrooms which are connected directly to the campus network.

If all goes well, the outage will only be for a few minutes and may not
even be noticed, but there are no guarantees.

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