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Adobe CC 2015 and Visio Pro 2016 now available on SWW

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Installer files for campus site-licensed versions of Adobe Creative Cloud 2015 are now available on both WinSWW and MacSWW. This includes separate installers for Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, and others. Note that access to WinSWW and MacSWW is restricted to those who have Standard IRIS accounts (Limited IRIS accounts do not have access).

Visio Pro 2016 installers (32-bit and 64-bit Windows) are also available on WinSWW.

These installers are intended for use on university-owned machines that are not managed by Campus Shared Services. For personally-owned machines and further information about Adobe and Microsoft licensing on campus, please visit the campus Software Central website.

Special thanks go to AMPLab technical support staff, who handled the initial downloads of these very large files.

Now blocking JetDirect access from off-campus

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As of 4pm Sunday, March 27, we are blocking some access from off-campus devices to printers on the EECS production networks. In particular, incoming traffic to port 9100 (JetDirect) is currently blocked by the department firewall.

Using the campus VPN is one way to work around this block, if you need to print from off-campus. Feel free to contact help@eecs if your printing needs require an alternate solution.

Mail List Server Maintenance, March 23 8pm-12am

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The Department’s Mailing List server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu wlll be down for maintenance Wednesday, March 23rd at 8pm for a major upgrade. The [Sympa](http://www.sympa.org/) mailing list software will be upgraded from version 5.4.5 to the most current version, 6.2.14.

We hope the upgrade will be completed by 10pm but are scheduling extra time in case of unexpected problems.

Mailing list owners and editors may wish to review the [Sympa release notes](http://www.sympa.org/distribution/latest-stable/NEWS) for a summary of changes.
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Jacobs Hall Wi-Fi Issues and Maintenance 3/14/16 10PM

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The wireless networks in Jacobs Hall are currently malfunctioning due to a defect in the new code which was applied on Friday night. This defect has disabled the wireless network by preventing the APs from powering on fully. Staff are currently implementing a hardware based workaround which will bring the APs online for the afternoon.

We have identified a newer version that closes this particular defect, and confirmed with campus IST that it does work as expected. This upgrade will be applied tonight at 10PM and will involve a brief (~2 minute) downtime for the wired and wireless networks in Jacobs Hall.
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Scheduled Storage Outage, Fri. 3/11/16 10PM

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This Friday at 10PM we will be doing a software upgrade on the switch which provides connectivity for the EECS storage infrastructure. This upgrade is to address an issue with in-band management of the switch.

All storage services (home directories, project storage, etc.) will be briefly unavailable during the upgrade. Past experience suggests that this downtime will only last approximately five minutes. We strongly recommend that you save and close all open files in home and project spaces before 10PM on Friday. Machines with permanent NFS mounts may need to be rebooted after the maintenance is complete.

Please contact help@eecs.berkeley.edu with any questions or concerns.
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Jacobs Hall Network Maintenance, 3/11/16 10PM

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We will be performing a software upgrade on the Jacobs Hall switch on this Friday, the 11th, at 10PM. This upgrade will address an issue with in-band management of the switch.

We expect all wired and wireless networks in Jacobs Hall to be unavailable for five to ten minutes while the upgrade is performed.

Please contact help@eecs.berkeley.edu with any questions or concerns.
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Mar 2016 Windows Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, March 8th, 2016.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, March 9th, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, March 9th, depending on additional software updates.

Resolved as of 2016-03-09 08:06:00