In the coming weeks, identified staff throughout the Division of Administration and Finance will have PGP® Whole Disk Encryption installed on their computers. This software will protect information stored on those computers’ hard disk drives by encrypting every byte of data. To learn more click here.
Administration and Finance staff are encouraged to participate in campus-wide and divisional energy conservation initiatives. To learn more about office equipment and energy conservation best practices, please click here.
If you are an Oracle Calendar user and you wish to save calendar entries that will be purged from the database read more.
ITS announcement 7/17/07:
On July 31, all Calendar entries prior to July 1, 2005 will be purged from the system as part of the maintenance that is performed on the Calendar database. If there are entries prior to July 1, 2005 that users wish to keep, they can export them from the Calendar server using the export command within the Calendar client.
For user’s convenience click here for directions on how to save your Calendar information.
Tonight the A&F servers will be patched and rebooted. This will occur at 10:15 PM. Please save your work and log off before that time. Downtime is expected to last no longer than 20 minutes.
The following resources will be unavailable during the reboot:
- F,G,H, & I drives
- Local email folders in Thunderbird
- Crimestar
- Key system
- Ticket Trak
- A&F web sites
Desktop patching occurs at approximately 2:00 AM.
New patches were released from Microsoft yesterday (5/8/07). Servers were patched last night and your PC should have started the patch process this morning at 3:00AM.
Details on what Microsoft released can be found here.
The new interface to create specialized mailing lists has been created. To create a special mailing list, please send the list of University IDs of the persons to be put on the list to me at blake.murray@uni.edu.
A list has been created for the Wellness Center mailings and for AFSCME members mailings.
Tonight we will be patching Servers and Workstations. Servers will be unavailable between 10:30 - 10:50 PM tonight. Workstations will download patches and reboot around 3:00 AM.
Please save your work and log off before that time.
Those users that have PGP installed please leave your computer at the login screen and do not shut down tonight.
* from Microsoft *
Today we released 5 bulletins: 4 have a maximum severity rating of Critical, and one has a maximum severity rating of Important.
Microsoft is releasing a special patch tonight to address the vulnerability in Windows Animated Cursor Handling. Attacks against this vulnerability are up recently so Microsoft is pushing this update earlier than the usual monthly patch cycle.
Because of that, the A&F servers and desktops will be patched and rebooted tonight. This will occur at 10:30 PM. Please save your work and log off before that time. Downtime is expected to last no longer than 20 minutes.
Those users that have PGP installed, please leave your computer at the login screen and do not shut down tonight. (just tonight)