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The following maintenance activities will take place tonight, Thursday November 14^th, 2013 during our normally scheduled maintenance window beginning at 9:00 PM:

Employee and TEC Classroom computers will receive critical security patches for Firefox, Windows, and Office beginning at 9:00 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 beginning at 9:00 PM and lasting roughly 3 hours, all Banner systems will be temporarily unavailable due to a required upgrade to the campus VMWare storage upgrade.

Lastly, beginning at 9:00 PM there will be very brief reboots to various campus web and networking services as CS installs critical security and Windows updates to our campus servers.

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 tonight, Thursday October 31st, 2013 during our normally scheduled maintenance window beginning tonight at 9:00 PM:

Employee and TEC Classroom computers will receive critical security patches for Flash, Skype, and iTunes 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.

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 and Happy Halloween!

Computing Services

The following maintenance activities will take place Thursday October 17th, 2013 during our normally scheduled maintenance window beginning tonight at 9:00 PM:

At 9:00 PM, all Banner services will be unavailable while we perform a critical upgrade to the Financial Aid module of the Banner system. Services should be restored by roughly 10 PM.

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 October 3rd, 2013 during our normally scheduled maintenance window beginning tonight at 9:00 PM:

At 9:00 PM, all Banner services will be unavailable while we perform critical security upgrades to the Banner system. Services should be restored by midnight.

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 September 19, 2013 during our normally scheduled maintenance window beginning tonight at 9:00 PM and also Saturday, September 21st:

***Thursday Maintenance***

At 9:00 PM and lasting roughly one hour, we will be upgrading the campus wireless Aruba controller system to add additional licensing. During this time, all wireless networking services on campus will be down and inaccessible. Students may go to either the SUB or McDaniel Hall 24-hour computer labs if network access is critical during this time.

Also at 9:00, we will be updating the firmware on several campus network switches including many switches in the Residence Halls and one switch in Richardson Hall. There will be various outages to each of these locations beginning at 9:00 PM and should be completed no later than midnight.

Employee and TEC Classroom computers will receive critical security patches for Windows, Flash, Adobe Reader, 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.

Finally, at 9:00 PM, Self-Service Banner will be down for roughly 3 hours while we perform maintenance on this system. During this time, students will not be able to use School Services.

***Saturday Maintenance***

Beginning at 8:00 AM and lasting until roughly 1:00 PM, all Banner services will be unavailable while we perform several upgrades to the Banner Financial Aid module, Payroll, Finance and other modules.

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 September 12, 2013 during our normally scheduled maintenance window beginning at 9:00 PM:

At 9:00 PM, we will be rebooting the BGP service which will cause approximately 5 minutes of downtime for anyone trying to connect to the Internet from on-campus.

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 September 5, 2013 during our normally scheduled maintenance window beginning at 9:00 PM:

At 9:00 PM, we will be installing critical security patches on our Microsoft Active Directory and Print Servers. Interruption to Active Directory and printing functions should be minimal.

***Banner Maintenance on Saturday, September 7^th***

Beginning at 9:00 AM on Saturday, all Banner services will be unavailable for roughly one hour. This is required for us to replace a faulty hard disk drive in the main database server.

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 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