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December IRIS Server Patching

December 11, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, December 12th, 2023. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, December 13th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00am Wednesday, December 13th, depending on additional software updates.

Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs will be patched and rebooted Tuesday night. DNS servers cronus and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.

On Wednesday, December 13th, 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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Soda Hall Power Outage on January 4, 2024

November 16, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

To accommodate the installation of new circuit breakers and PDU (Power Distribution Unit) connections, all electrical power to the 2nd and 4th floors of Soda Hall will be shutdown during the day of Thursday, January 4, 2024. Critical systems will be down from 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 gateway.eecs.

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November IRIS Server Patching

November 13, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, November 14th, 2023. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, November 15th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00am Wednesday, November 15th, depending on additional software updates.

On Wednesday, November 15th, 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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October IRIS Server Patching

October 6, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, October 10th, 2023. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, October 11th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00am Wednesday, October 11th, depending on additional software updates.

On Wednesday, October 11th, 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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September Windows Server Patching

September 8, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, September 12th, 2023. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, September 13th, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, September 13th, depending on additional software updates.

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August Windows Server Patching

August 7, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, August 8th, 2023. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, August 9th, at 3:00 am.

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

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July Windows Server Patching

July 7, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, July 11th, 2023. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, July 12th, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, July 12th, depending on additional software updates.

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June Windows Server Patching

June 9, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, June 13th, 2023. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, June 14th, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, June 14th, depending on additional software updates.

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May Windows Server Patching

May 5, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, May 9th, 2023. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, May 10th, at 3:00 am.

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

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April Windows Server Patching

April 7, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, April 11th, 2023. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, April 12th, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, April 12th, depending on additional software updates.

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