The following activities will take place this Thursday, May 27th after 9:00 PM:

-Critical and security patches from Microsoft will be pushed out to all employee, 

lab and TEC Classrooms. If possible, please leave any employee computers turned on 

when you leave work on Thursday in order to reduce the amount of interruption to 

your work schedule.

 

Also scheduled for this weekend beginning promptly at 5 PM on Friday (5/28) is the 

student email migration to GMail. Although this will not affect employee email 

services, Computing Services wanted to inform all faculty and staff in the event 

that a student inquires about the cut-over. Below is a copy of the message sent 

to all current students:

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Just a quick reminder that we will be shutting down the student email server this 

weekend, as we complete the migration of all student email accounts to Google Apps. 

The server will be inaccessible beginning at 5PM on Friday (5/28). Once your email 

has been migrated, you will be able to access all of your messages and your 

addressbook by logging into http://mail.grizzlies.adams.edu. With this change, 

your email address will also change to username@grizzlies.adams.edu. We will 

forward any incoming email to your new account for a few months, but you will 

need to notify your contacts of your new address.

We appreciate your patience as we finish this migration, and please don't 

hesitate to contact the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at asccompserv@adams.edu  

or by calling us at x7741 with any questions or concerns.

Thank you,
Computing Services

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Thanks, and if you have any questions, please contact the ASC Computing Services 

Helpdesk at x7741.

Computing Services

This Saturday, 24 Apr 2010, Computing Services will be transferring our school web services to a new server. This action is necessary to replace our aging web server, but also needed as part of the mandated Payment Card Industry changes scheduled to begin at the end of May. It is anticipated that school services (One stop, Self Service Banner) will be unavailable for about 1 – 1.5 hours starting at 9 AM on Saturday.

Following that change, banner will be updated with the new financial  aid releases. Banner will be down for about 2.5 hours for that upgrade. So total down time will be from 9AM until approximately 1PM.

If you have any questions or concerns, please call the ASC Computing Services Help desk at x7741. Thank you for your cooperation!

The following maintenance activities will occur beginning at 9PM:

• Employee, Lab and TEC Classroom computers will receive the newest critical security updates from Microsoft. Employees are advised to leave their computers on overnight to facilitate the installation process.
• Employee computers will receive an upgrade to the help.adams.edu calling card, which will streamline the process for receiving remote computer support from Computing Services.

If you have any questions or concerns, please call the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at x7741. Thank you for your cooperation!

We need to install student and COF upgrade modules into banner. This is to keep us up to date with Banner as well as to prepare for the mandated Payment Card Industry requirements coming in July.

The student/COF upgrade will take about 5 hours and is scheduled to occur on Saturday the 10th of April, beginning at 8:00 AM. Banner and School Services will be unavailable for that duration.

If you have any questions, please contact the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at x7741.

• The Banner Forms server will be unavailable from 9PM until roughly 11PM due to a critical patch upgrade.

If you have any questions or concerns, please call the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at x7741, thanks!

• Computing Services will be remotely installing major security upgrade to Adobe Reader for all Employee computers beginning at 9:00 PM. All employees that are still on campus are urged to leave their computers on overnight to allow the update to happen during off hours. However, computers left off Thursday night will still receive the update the next time they connect to the network.

If you have any questions, please contact the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at x7741.

The following maintenance activities will take place tomorrow (Thursday):

• Banner- Student Web, School Services and the Banner Database will be down for maintenance from 9PM-Midnight.
• The site-wide web republish will take place tomorrow (Thursday) evening. Only stories and media elements in publish desks will be affected.

If you have any questions or concerns, please call the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at x7741.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the maintenance that was scheduled for last Thursday had to be moved to tonight, March 4th. The following activities will take place beginning at 9 PM:

• The main campus web database as well as LDAP services will be briefly interrupted due to maintenance activities. Start time is 9:00 PM, and estimated down time is 30 minutes.
• WebCT may have brief periods of interruption during login due to the LDAP maintenance. Estimated downtime is from 9:00 PM – 9:40 PM.
• Network Printing services will be interrupted for roughly 30 minutes beginning at 9:00 PM during an upgrade to the PCounter printing accounting software.

The following maintenance activities will take place this Thursday evening:

• UPDATED*** After 9 PM there may be brief outages to Banner services due to a network switch replacement
• Email Storage Optimization- All email services will be down between 9 PM and midnight as we diagnose and attempt to correct email storage issues.
• Employee, Lab and TEC Classroom computers will receive critical Microsoft security updates starting after 9 PM. Please leave your employee computers on when you leave work on Thursday

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the ASC Computing Services Helpdesk at x7741