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Recent News Items:

• Cory Hall partial power outage, Thursday, April 16, 2026April 9, 2026
  Campus Facilities Services is scheduled to perform an urgent repair, replacing the main circuit breaker serving Cory Hall’s 188 Lab and 1st floor Mezzanine. An email from Logan Baldini, our Director of Facilities and Capital Projects, already went out on April 8 to Cory Hall occupants. Work will take place Thursday, April 16, 8:15pm —… Read more: Cory Hall partial power outage, Thursday, April 16, 2026
• NetApp Fileserver Migration, Saturday April 18, 2026April 3, 2026
  We are scheduling a NetApp migration to new hardware, from 8am to Noon on Saturday, April 18, 2026. All Home directories and Project shares (CIFS/SMB and NFS) will experience disconnection during the migration that may cause data loss on active, open files.  Please close your open files and save them before Friday morning. Services (e.g.… Read more: NetApp Fileserver Migration, Saturday April 18, 2026
• March IRIS Server PatchingMarch 9, 2026
  Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, March 10th, 2026. 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, March 11th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates. Linux… Read more: March IRIS Server Patching
• EECS Border Firewall Changes, Mon. March 23March 3, 2026
  On Monday, March 23rd, we will be adding some new ports to the list of ports that are blocked by the EECS border firewall. For detailed information about the changes, please see our EECS Firewall Ports page (this page requires login). The list of ports that we will add to the block list is at… Read more: EECS Border Firewall Changes, Mon. March 23
• February IRIS Server PatchingFebruary 9, 2026
  Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, February 10th, 2026. 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, February 11th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates. Linux… Read more: February IRIS Server Patching

Other Items of Note:

• Annual Laptop Season: IRIS Laptop Orders