As the fall semester gets underway, I’m writing to remind you of the risks involved with illegally 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 https://www.adams.edu/administration/computing/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!

Beginning at 9:00 PM, we will be applying critical security patches to several back-end systems. These patches will require brief outages as the systems reboot, but impact to campus services should be less than 30 minutes.

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

Have a great day!

Computing Services

Beginning at 9:00 PM, Employee, lab and TEC Classroom PCs will receive critical security updates to Google Chrome, Firefox, iTunes, Java and LibreOffice. Employees are encouraged to log off but leave their computers on when leaving work for the day. This will assist the installation of these patches and minimize any impact.

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

Have a great day!

Computing Services

As many of you are aware, we have been experiencing problems with the campus network such as extremely slow connections, and at times, outages in loading content. Computing Services has been working late into the evenings to identify and troubleshoot the issue. We continue to monitor the network closely and are working as quickly as possible to eliminate the issue. As we make progress, Computing Services will notify the campus via email, our blog and announcements on the campus announcements web page.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused and are doing everything in our power to fix the issue as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience and support.

Computing Services

**Tonight, Wednesday August 10th**

-At 6:00 PM, in preparation for the beginning of the semester, we must perform a reboot on the campus core router TMS module. Computing Services will work to minimize any campus impact, but there could be intermittent network connectivity issues for about an hour.

**Tomorrow, Thursday August 11^th**

Beginning at 9:00 PM, Employee, lab and TEC Classroom PCs will receive critical security updates to Google Chrome, Firefox, iTunes and LibreOffice. Employees are encouraged to log off but leave their computers on when leaving work for the day. This will assist the installation of these patches and minimize any impact.

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

Have a great day!

Computing Services

***Tonight’s maintenance, 8/4***

-Beginning at 9:00 PM, there will be brief outages to various networking services as we apply critical security patches.

***Saturday- Banner upgrade to Financial Aid Module***

This Saturday beginning around 3:00 AM, we will be applying the Financial Aid 8.26.2.3 to Production. During this time ALL Banner services will be down until Saturday afternoon.

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

Have a great day!

Computing Services

Beginning at 9:00 PM, we will be applying security patches to several Banner systems. During this time ALL Banner services will be down for roughly 4 hours. We will also be applying security patches to the campus print server. There will be about 10 minutes in which networked printing will not be accessible as the system reboots.

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

Have a great day!

Computing Services

Beginning at 9:00 PM, we will be applying security patches to several back-end systems. We will also be applying security patches to the campus file server. There will be about 30 minutes in which home and shared directories will not be accessible as the system reboots.

Beginning at 8:00 PM and lasting for roughly 5 hours, the Banner Development (DEVL) system will be down as we perform maintenance on the system.

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

Have a great day!

Computing Services

The following maintenance activities will take place tonight, July 7^th:

-Beginning at 6:00 PM, we will be applying a firmware upgrade to our campus wireless infrastructure. There will be brief outages to wireless networking services as the access points reboot. Total anticipated wireless outages are less than 30 minutes.

-At 9:00 PM, we will be performing an upgrade to our ceph storage system and testing a new campus firewall system. There may be intermittent connection issues to on and off-campus networking services until roughly 10:00 PM.

****Banner Maintenance on Saturday, 7/9****

-Beginning at 3:00 AM, we will be upgrading Banner General and BDMS in Production. ALL Banner systems will be unavailable until early afternoon.

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

Have a great day!

Computing Services

Beginning at 9:00 PM, Employee, lab and TEC Classroom PCs will receive updates to Windows, VLC, Shockwave, Chrome, Flash, Air, FireFox, ThunderBird, and Pidgin.  Apple Macintosh will receive updates for OS X, VLC, Shockwave, Chrome, Flash, Air, and FireFox.

Employees are encouraged to log off but leave their computers on when leaving work for the day.  This will assist the installation of these patches and minimize any impact.

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

Have a great day!

Computing Services