Office 2007 Upgrades 7/27/2009

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Beginning at 6:00 p.m on Monday, July 27, 2009, Technology Services will deploy Microsoft Office 2007 to opt-in faculty and all staff computers. Office 2007 will be installed on all campus labs and e-classroom computers for the 2009-2010 academic year.

To facilitate a successful installation, staff and faculty opting in to the deployment should “Restart” their computers when leaving work on July 27. PCs should be left on and at the “CTRL+ALT+DEL” login screen. For more information on the deployment, including training and what to expect after deployment, visit our Office 2007 Web pages.

Maintenance Patch Detail for 7/26/09

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The following production servers were patched today, OS patches only:

Linux:

  • orcas
  • baker
  • Tahoma
  • purgatory
  • styx
  • hades
  • gehenna
  • moodle
  • quixote
  • mysql
  • oraweb

And the following Windows servers:

  • Alexandria
  • BE1
  • BE2
  • BE3
  • CLTACC1
  • CLTACC2
  • CMS
  • DHCP-1
  • EPO
  • FE1
  • FE2
  • ILLIAD
  • INTCHK
  • KEEPER
  • MAURY2
  • MBS1
  • MBS2
  • MBS3
  • MEDIA
  • MERLIN2
  • MSPROJECT
  • PROJECTS
  • SANJUAN
  • UPSCA03
  • VASHON
  • VERONICA
  • VIAWARP
  • VMMON
  • WEBSERVER1
  • WEBSERVER2

Exchange 2007 Interface Upgrade Postponed

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Updated 7/26/09 @ 3:10PM

All changes were backed out and all mail delivery is back to normal by 3:00 PM.

Due to unforeseen issues with the Exchange 2007 interface upgrade today, the change is postponed.

Currently we are reverting back to the previous configuration, which should be complete by 3:00 PM today.  During the change and roll-back periods (8:00 AM to 3:00 PM Sunday, August, 26th) some mail sent from outside of the University may not have been accepted.  Any user sending email that failed will get an error message and will be able to re-send the message after 3:00 PM.

This post will be updated when the roll-back is complete.

Non Production patch maintenance

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We are currently experience patch related issues with the following non-production servers ( Pilchuck, Lummi, Kickstart and Moodle2). We are working to resolve these issues as quickly as possible. A notification will be sent out as soon as these issues have been resolved.

6/28/09 Maintenance Window Details

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See the post in the “Maintenance Windows” catagory for the public communication.

This month the Sophos PMX servers were patched with the latest Linux patches, and upgraded to the latest PureMessage version.

We also did the following non-recuring tasks:

  • Upgraded Alexandria’s MD3000 Firmware
  • Upgraded AntiVirus to EPO on Webserver1 and Webserver2
  • Cleared stale VSS copies on SanJuan

Finally, all production Windows servers were patched:

  • Alexandria
  • BE1
  • BE2
  • BE3
  • CBORDFSS
  • CLTACC1
  • CLTACC2
  • CMS
  • DHCP-1
  • DM-1 to DM-8
  • EPO
  • FE1
  • FE2
  • ILLIAD
  • INTCHK
  • KEEPER
  • KRONOS
  • LENEL
  • MAURY2
  • MBS1
  • MBS2
  • MBS3
  • MEDIA
  • MERLIN2
  • MICROS
  • MSPROJECT
  • ODYSSEY
  • PROJECTS
  • SANJUAN
  • UPSCA03
  • VASHON
  • VERONICA
  • VIAWARP
  • VMMON
  • WEBSERVER1
  • WEBSERVER2

[Complete] Next Maintenance Window 6/28/09

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This month’s outage was completed 1:30PM.  All services other than Cascade Web and Banner were available by noon as expected.

The next production maintenance window is Sunday, June 28th, from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

From 8:00 AM to Noon, all services may be intermittently or entirely unavailable, including:

  • E-mail
  • Personal and departmental file shares (on Alexandria and Merlin2)
  • Database Applications:  Cascade, FAMIS, Millennium, and Banner

Please note that Cascade Web and Banner will continue to be unavailable until 4:00 PM.