[All_jlab_accounts] JLab IT Division Maintenance Period Tonight, 5-10 p.m.

[Kandice Carter]

Sent on behalf of the IT Division 


This is a reminder that the IT Division has scheduled a maintenance period for 5-10 p.m. tonight. Many systems will be affected during this time: 

- A rolling wireless outage may occur. The outage will not last more than 15 minutes, but it will affect all wireless access. 

- Access to the external internet will be down, 5-5:45 p.m. 

- The BSN fileserver (admfs, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, Y, Z drives) will be replaced. Total outage time should be less than one hour, starting at 5 p.m. 

- Zimbra email will be down 5:30-5:45 p.m. to apply system patches. 

- Internet Explorer (IE) will be upgraded to version 8 on XP systems and version 9 on all others. 

- Systems that use the 2-factor Cryptocard token (key fob) will be unavailable 5:30-6:30 p.m. in order to update an authentication server. All access to systems, such as hallgw and acelogin will be restored by 6:30 p.m. 

- Linux and Windows patches will be released. Plan on rebooting your desktop on Wednesday or Thursday to finalize any system or kernel updates. 

- Updates to various Adobe software (Flash, Reader, etc.) will be released to all Windows systems. 

- Java 1.7 will become the default on all Windows systems. See the Java 1.6 End-of-Life message for further details. 

If you have any comments or questions about this planned maintenance period, contact the IT Helpdesk, x7155 or helpdesk at jlab.org. 


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