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Recent News Items:
- June IRIS Server PatchingMicrosoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, June 9th, 2026. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs, (for access to the network and roster databases) will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus and themis may also be… Read more: June IRIS Server Patching
- EECS DHCP Outage, May 19thWe experienced an issue with our DHCP service this morning, which prevented a number of machines from connecting to the wired network. This issue began around 3AM and was resolved by 10:30AM. If your machine still cannot get online, we suggest rebooting it to try and obtain a new DHCP lease. We believe that this… Read more: EECS DHCP Outage, May 19th
- May IRIS Server PatchingMicrosoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, May 12th, 2026. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs, (for access to the network and roster databases) will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus and themis may also be… Read more: May IRIS Server Patching
- Investigating Windows mount issue with new fileserverWe have reports of problems with CIFS mounts of home directories and project shares from the new NetApp fileserver. CIFS is typically used by Windows or mobile clients. Staff are investigating and will report here as we learn more. NFS mounts (typically unix/linux) are working as expected.
- April IRIS Server PatchingMicrosoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, April 14th, 2026. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs, (for access to the network and roster databases) will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus and themis may also be… Read more: April IRIS Server Patching
Other Items of Note:
- Annual Laptop Season: IRIS Laptop Orders