Entries from August 2013 ↓

The following maintenance activities will take place Thursday August 29th, 2013 during our normally scheduled maintenance window beginning at 9:00 PM:

Employee and TEC Classroom computers will receive critical security patches for Windows, Firefox, VLC, Flash, Adobe AIR, and Shockwave beginning at 9 PM. Employees are encouraged to log out and leave their computers on when leaving for the day. This will enable these updates to run overnight and minimize any impact to our users.

Also at 9:00 PM, we will be rebooting the campus file server. Interruption to the home and shared directory services should be minimal.

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding as we perform these critical maintenance activities. As always, if you have any questions, please call the ASU Computing Services Helpdesk at 7741 or contact us via email at computingservices@adams.edu

Thank you,

Computing Services

As the fall semester gets underway, I’m writing to remind you of the risks involved with illegal downloading and/or sharing of copyrighted music, movies, games and software over the Internet. Unauthorized obtaining, sharing or offering such copyrighted material is illegal and in violation of U.S. copyright law. If caught, you may face severe civil and criminal penalties, including prison and monetary damages. Anyone found to have infringed a copyrighted work may be liable for statutory damages of up to $30,000 for each work and, if found to be willful, that amount may be increased up to $150,000 for each work infringed. Movie and recording companies actively monitor the Internet to identify individuals who are illegally downloading and/or sharing movies and music via peer-to-peer networks.

ASU fully complies with Federal law and takes prompt action when notified that one of its students may be illegally downloading and/or sharing copyrighted material. University Policy 500-008, Unauthorized Downloading and File Sharing of Copyrighted Digital Materials, is located on the ASU Computing Services Website, at http://www.adams.edu/administration/computing/policies/policies.php. If caught, ASU penalties could include loss of access to the campus computer network, disciplinary action and in extreme cases, expulsion from the University.

You may think that the large movie or recording companies won’t bother prosecuting a single university-student downloading or sharing copyrighted material. Think again. Organizations such as the Recording Industry Association of America are serious about protecting their copyrighted material. In 2009, a Boston University graduate student was ordered to pay $675,000 for illegally downloading and distributing 30 songs. This comes out to $22,500, per incident, of copyright infringement. There are a number of online sources that provide legal alternatives for downloading or otherwise acquiring copyrighted material. A listing of many of these sites can be found at: http://www.educause.edu/legalcontent.

If you have specific questions regarding ASU’s Unauthorized Downloading and File Sharing Policy please contact the

ASU Computing Services Help Desk at 587-7741 or via email at computingservices@adams.edu.

Thanks and have a great semester!

Computing Services

Computing Services has successfully restored Banner Web and Self-Service Banner systems. If you have any trouble logging into or using these systems, please call the ASU Computing Services Help Desk at x7741 or contact us via email at computingservices@adams.edu

We thank you for your support and patience this morning, and apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.

Computing Services

There is currently an issue caused by last night’s maintenance on the Banner system that has taken School Services down. We have identified our best course of action to recover from this unforeseen problem caused by the vendor’s patch and are working diligently to restore services. Unfortunately, this is a process we have not had to do before, so we are unsure of the length of time necessary to perform the fix. Please check the campus announcement page for the most up-to-date information regarding this outage, the link to that page is http://blogs.adams.edu/campus/

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this is causing, and will work to restore services as soon as absolutely possible. Thank you for your patience.

Computing Services

The following maintenance activities will take place Thursday August 8th, 2013 during our normally scheduled maintenance window beginning at 9:00 PM:

Banner Maintenance:

At 9:00 PM, all Banner services including forms, Banner Printing, Self-Service Banner, and Student Services will be down for roughly three hours as we install critical Banner security patches.

Server Maintenance:

Also at 9:00 PM, we will be rebooting the campus wikis, blogs, email list, thin client server, content management system, and web databases after security patches are installed. Interruption to these services should be minimal.

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding as we perform these critical maintenance activities. As always, if you have any questions, please call the ASU Computing Services Helpdesk at 7741 or contact us via email at computingservices@adams.edu

Thank you,

Computing Services

The following maintenance activities will take place Thursday August 1st, 2013 during our normally scheduled maintenance window beginning at 9:00 PM:

Banner Maintenance:

At 9:00 PM, all Banner services including forms, Banner Printing, Self-Service Banner, and Student Services will be down for roughly three hours as we install critical Banner security patches.

File Server Maintenance:

Also at 9:00 PM, the campus file server will be unavailable for roughly 1 hour for critical maintenance activities. During this time, access to user’s home (X:) and shared (S:) drives will be unavailable.

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding as we perform these critical maintenance activities. As always, if you have any questions, please call the ASU Computing Services Helpdesk at 7741 or contact us via email at computingservices@adams.edu

Thank you,

Computing Services