The Windows Remote Desktop server winterm.eecs will be taken offline at about 10am Friday, October 10, 2025, so that we may perform an in-place upgrade to a newer version of Windows Server. This upgrade may take a few hours; we expect that winterm.eecs will be usable again by mid-afternoon.
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September IRIS Server Patching
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, September 9th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.
PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, September 10th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.
Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases) will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus, themis, and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.
On Thursday, September 11th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from about 9am to 9:30am (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled). Linux login servers login.eecs/login-mfa.eecs will also be patched and rebooted around this time.
[Read more…] about September IRIS Server PatchingAugust IRIS Server Patching
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, August 12th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.
PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, August 13th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.
Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs/login-mfa.eecs will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus, themis, and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.
On Thursday, August 14th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from about 9am to 9:30am (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).
[Read more…] about August IRIS Server PatchingJuly IRIS Server Patching
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, July 8th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.
PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, July 9th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.
Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs/login-mfa.eecs will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus, themis, and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.
On Thursday, July 10th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from about 9am to 9:30am (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).
[Read more…] about July IRIS Server PatchingJune IRIS Server Patching
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, June 10th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.
PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, June 11th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.
Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs/login-mfa.eecs will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus, themis, and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.
On Thursday, June 12th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from about 9am to 9:30am (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).
[Read more…] about June IRIS Server PatchingMay IRIS Server Patching
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, May 13th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.
PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, May 14th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.
Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs/login-mfa.eecs will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus, themis, and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.
On Thursday, May 15th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from about 9am to 9:30am (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).
[Read more…] about May IRIS Server PatchingApril IRIS Server Patching
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, April 8th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.
PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, April 9th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.
Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs/login-mfa.eecs will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus, themis, and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.
On Wednesday, April 9th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).
[Read more…] about April IRIS Server PatchingSoda Hall 2nd Floor Power Outage on March 26, 2025
Following up on the work done during the June 13th Soda Hall power outage, we have a similar outage for the second floor of Soda Hall scheduled during Spring Break, to complete (hopefully!) a circuit breaker replacement. As with the last outage, electrical power to the Soda Hall second floor will be down during much of the day on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. Critical systems will be down from about 6am until perhaps 5pm.
Of primary note is that the department NetApp fileservers will be down, so any systems that depend on HOME or PROJECT storage will be shutdown or nonfunctional. Services that will be unavailable during the maintenance period include: department webservice (including people.eecs, www2.eecs and all other IRIS-hosted web sites), IRIS account & network forms, login servers (login.eecs, login-mfa.eecs, winterm.eecs), print server print.eecs, and outgoing SMTP server smtp.eecs.
Any systems that remain powered-on but make use of HOME or PROJECT storage may become unresponsive during this time. Rebooting after maintenance is completed is usually recommended.
Services that will remain online and available include: DHCP, EECS Active Directory, EECS LDAP, wired networking, DNS (cronus.eecs), and maillists (lists.eecs), and the main department website eecs.berkeley.edu.
[Read more…] about Soda Hall 2nd Floor Power Outage on March 26, 2025March IRIS Server Patching
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, March 11th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.
PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, March 12th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.
Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs/login-mfa.eecs will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus, themis, and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.
On Wednesday, March 12th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).
[Read more…] about March IRIS Server PatchingFebruary IRIS Server Patching
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, February 11th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.
PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, February 12th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.
Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs/login-mfa.eecs will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus, themis, and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.
On Wednesday, February 12th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).
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