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Brief Downtime for Multiple IRIS Services

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The EECS Department website, FTP server, Windows Terminal Server (winterm), the IRIS website, Jabber, and Sympa (mailing list) services will all experience brief periods of unavailability beginning at 7:00am on Wednesday, February 25, 2009, possibly lasting until 8:00am.

The servers hosting these services will be changing IP addresses during this time as their current subnet (128.32.139.0/24) is being repurposed. DNS will be updated at 7:00am as well, so you shouldn’t need to make any changes to client applications unless you’ve been accessing any of these services directly by their IP rather than by their DNS name.
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February 2009 Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009.

PRINT, RIS, WINTERM and WINSWW will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, February 11th, at 3:00 am.

macserver.eecs will be down for patching and maintenance Wednesday, February 11th, from 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.

Resolved as of 2009-02-11 17:00:00

January 2009 Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009.

PRINT, RIS, WINTERM and WINSWW will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, January 14th, at 3:00 am.

macserver.eecs will be down for patching and maintenance Wednesday, January 14th, from 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.

Resolved as of 2009-01-14 13:28:00

November 2008 Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008.

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

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

Resolved as of 2008-11-12 15:36:00

Urgent Adobe Reader and Acrobat Vulnerabilities

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Adobe has released Security Bulletin APSB08-19 to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Please see http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-19.html for more information.
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Emergency Microsoft Patching – October 2008

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Microsoft has release an emergency patch for all versions of its OS. Hermes, winsww, ris and print will be patched and rebooted tonight at 6pm.

If you have not already done so please make sure you have installed KB958644 on all your Windows hosts.

This is the best description of the vulnerability I have found so far; http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2008/10/smb-vulnerablity-found-emergency-patch.html

I am in process of patching all other EECS Windows host.

Thanks.
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October 08 Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008.

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

HERMES and macserver.eecs will be down for patching and maintenance Wednesday, October 15th, from 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.
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September Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, September 10th, at 3:00 am.

HERMES and macserver.eecs will be down for patching and maintenance Wednesday, September 10th, from 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.
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