December 2008 - ISG-news - lists.phys.ethz.ch

[ISG News] Computer support during the holidays
by Schmid Patrick 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Computer support during the holidays' The ETH Zurich will be officially closed between Wednesday, 24th of December 2008 and Sunday, 4th of January 2009. During this time, we can only provide limited support. Please follow these rules to save us from superfluous work: Switch off printers Switch off your personal workstation and notebook except for the following: Do not switch off our managed Linux and MacOS X workstations. We will try to follow our e-mail, but you may also have luck and meet some of us in our IRC channel. We also plan to maintain some of our infrastructure servers during the holidays, but this should not disrupt any essential service. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2008/12/22/computer-support-during-the-holida… You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Schmid Patrick schmid(a)phys.ethz.ch

1 0

[ISG News] Solution for PDF printing problems on Windows
by Schmid Patrick 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Solution for PDF printing problems on Windows' We found the solution for our long term PDF printing problems, which occurred mostly on Windows computers. The latest workaround was to use the option print as image in Adobe Acrobat. This was very slow, and some times even that didn't work. Please follow the instructions in this readme, if you have such problems! You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2008/12/19/solution-for-pdf-printing-problems… You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Schmid Patrick schmid(a)phys.ethz.ch

1 0

[ISG News] Maintenance downtime of D-PHYS mail server on Friday, 5pm
by Axel Beckert 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Maintenance downtime of D-PHYS mail server on Friday, 5pm' For kernel security updates and other maintenance work, there will be a downtime of the e-mail server of the ETH Department of Physics from 17:00 on for about one hour. During the downtime you will not be able to access your mails on the server nor be able to send mails via the server. The XMPP service will be affected by the downtime, too. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2008/12/18/maintenance-downtime-of-d-phys-mai… You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Axel Beckert beckert(a)phys.ethz.ch

1 0

[ISG News] Microsoft Security Bulletin for December 2008
by Patrick Frei 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Microsoft Security Bulletin for December 2008' Last night Microsoft has released the Security Bulletin Summary for December, 2008. There are 6 critical and 2 important updates. If Automatic Update is not activated yet, then you must visit Microsoft Update to install the Security Updates. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2008/12/10/microsoft-security-bulletin-for-de… You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Patrick Frei frei(a)phys.ethz.ch

1 0

[ISG News] Migration and Downtime of our Authentication Server on Tuesday, 6pm
by Axel Beckert 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Migration and Downtime of our Authentication Server on Tuesday, 6pm' On Tuesday, the 2nd of December 2008, beginning at 6pm, we will migrate the services on our current authentication server to our high-availability cluster. During the migration you will not be able to login on any of our managed workstations, home and group drives or web services. Existing login sessions on workstations should survive the downtime, but it is usually better if you log out before migration. Additionally, *.dhcp.phys.ethz.ch dynamic hostnames will not work either. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2008/12/01/migration-and-downtime-of-our-auth… You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Axel Beckert beckert(a)phys.ethz.ch

1 0