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IRIS Website Application Updates, Mar 31, 2008

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We’ll be applying some updates to the underlying application that is used by the IRIS website beginning at 11:00p.m. on March 31, 2008.

We’ll be enabling some new features and streamlining the news a bit, so look for a post detailing the changes once we’re done.

If there is any actual downtime, it will be brief, though we don’t expect to incur any.
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Planned network outage, March 25, 7-8am

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There will be network maintenance at Soda 2nd floor on Tuesday March 25th between 7:00AM and 8:00AM. During this network downtime, both cronus and rhea will be off the network, so departmental NIS and time services will be down. Coeus and Project will be down, so all home directories and project file storage space will be unavailable.

We expect the actual down time to only be several minutes but we are scheduling a larger window for the outage in case we encounter any unexpected problems.

Please make your plans accordingly.

Janet
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EECS Helpdesk — Spring Break Hours

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###395 Cory Hall Hours
* **Monday 3/24:** 10:00 a.m. — 5:00 p.m.
* **Tuesday 3/25 — Thursday 3/27:** 9:00 a.m. — 5:00 p.m.
* **Friday 3/28:** *Closed* (University Holiday)

###311 Soda Hall Hours
* **Monday 3/24:** 11:00 a.m. — 1:00 p.m.
* **Tuesday 3/25:** *Closed*
* **Wednesday 3/26:** 10:00 a.m. — 2:00 p.m.
* **Thursday 3/27:** *Closed*
* **Friday 3/28:** *Closed* (University Holiday)

Normal hours will resume on Monday, 3/31/08.

RIS Server to be Upgraded

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The windows remote installation server (RIS) will be upgraded on Wednesday March 19th at 6:00 a.m.

During the upgrade Windows remote installation, and ris.eecs.berkeley.edu will not be available. Total downtime shouldn’t be more than an hour and RIS service will be available by 7:00 a.m.

With this upgrade Windows remote installation has changed. Upon booting to ris.eecs.berkeley.edu you will have two choices:

1. IDSG ONLY – WDS
2. Remote Installation Services

Windows deployment services (WDS) is still under development and available only to members of the IDSG group. Remote Installation Services will take you to the familiar blue pages and install Windows.

If you accidentally run WDS, just reboot your host, no changes will have been made.

See the [FAQ](/15-faq) for [instructions on using RIS](/15-faq/05-windows_2000/install-ris.html).

Please contact help@eecs if you have any trouble installing Windows from ris.eecs.berkeley.edu.
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Spam blocking and filtering

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To alleviate a particularly bad state of email delays yesterday we have started blocking hosts that appear on SpamHaus XBL and SBL blacklists in the morning. The effect was not immediate, as there were huge queues already. However, later that day we have seen the email delays drop from hours down to effectively 0 and this situation continued to stay this way up until 7am today (when this mail is being sent).

Resolved as of 2008-03-13 09:30:00

PRINT, RIS, and WINSWW Scheduled Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on *Tuesday, March 11th*.

**PRINT**, **RIS** and **WINSWW** will automatically patch and reboot **Wednesday, March 12th**, at **3:00 am**.

**HERMES** and **macserver.eecs** will be down for patching and maintenance **Wednesday, March 12th**, from **6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m**.
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