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Announcing Retirement of the EECS-PSK Wireless Network

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EECS-PSK Broadcast Ceases May 19th

On Friday, May 19th at 6:30AM, we will cease public broadcast of the EECS-PSK wireless network. The network will continue to exist and devices already configured to use it will be able to continue to do so throughout the Summer semester. However, it will not be available as a visible option to new devices which are not currently configured to connect to EECS-PSK. In other words, EECS-PSK will become a hidden SSID.

We recommend users of EECS-PSK immediately begin transitioning to either eduroam or Berkeley-IoT. eduroam is appropriate for devices such as laptops, desktops, phones and tablets; whereas Berkeley-IoT is appropriate for simpler devices which are not capable of authenticating to eduroam (i.e. devices which cannot perform 802.1X authentication).

Information about how to connect to eduroam and Berkeley-IoT is available at https://technology.berkeley.edu/wi-fi.

Please read the full post below for more information, including the final shutdown date for EECS-PSK. Contact us at help@eecs.berkeley.edu if you have any questions or concerns.

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Sporadic Windows Authentication Errors

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Since Thursday, March 16, we have received some reports of Windows authentication errors, usually experienced during login to Windows after a fresh reboot or at the lock screen. A common error indicated “The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.” Temporarily disabling the network, when possible, allowed one to login as normal (using cached credentials).

We found some Active Directory replication issues that may be at fault, and are working to rebuild one of our domain controllers. If you encountered the above error after 3pm today, March 21, please feel free to notify help@eecs with any specifics.

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IRIS to begin syncing names from CalNet

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Currently, when an IRIS account is created, the account name is set by the person requesting the account. It can be changed afterward, but such requests are processed manually.

In order to facilitate compliance with the new Gender Recognition and Lived Name policy, beginning on April 4, IRIS will begin syncing the following fields from the CalNet Directory to our systems:

  • First Name
  • Last Name

These fields are under the direct control of the owner. You can use a form on the CalNet website to update these fields.  We strongly recommend everyone review their current name settings so they are not surprised by any changes. You may have one of those accounts where your last name is in all capital letters – this is where you can change that.

We will sync these fields over from CalNet once a day at about 7am.  The updated fields will appear in these places:

One added benefit of this is that we will begin supporting Unicode characters in these name fields so that we can properly display non-Latin characters.  You can add Unicode characters using the CalNet update form.