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[ISG News] New SSL certificates for ISG D-PHYS web based services
by Axel Beckert 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

ISG News has posted a new item, 'New SSL certificates for ISG D-PHYS web based services' For a long time we used so called wildcard SSL certificates for most of our web sites and services. Especially newer web browsers issued warnings about them. We recently exchanged the wildcard certificate on https://www.phys.ethz.ch/ and other websites to a new type of SSL certificate listing all websites hosted on that machine. Since today also our infrastructure servers (e.g. https://registration.phys.ethz.ch/) have such a new SSL certificate. If you have installed our CA certificate as described in our article How to configure web browsers, the new certificates won't cause any more security warnings. If you have not installed our CA certificate in your web browser, a warning about a new unknown certificate will pop up for many of our SSL-enabled websites every time we add a new website. Because a new website means that we have to generate a new SSL certificate for the whole web server the new site is hosted on. We therefore recommend to install our CA certificate in your web browser to avoid those annoying warnings on D-PHYS websites. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/03/23/new-ssl-certificates-for-isg-d-phy… 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

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[ISG News] Microsoft Security Bulletin for March 2009
by Patrick Frei 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Microsoft Security Bulletin for March 2009' Last night Microsoft has released the Security Bulletin Summary for March, 2009. There are 1 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/2009/03/11/microsoft-security-bulletin-for-ma… 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

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[ISG News] Change in AFS Policy at ETH
by Elmar Heeb 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Change in AFS Policy at ETH' The Informatikdienste of ETH will change their AFS policy by March 31 of this year. AFS functionality will be provided through a dataless AFS cell at ETH. If you still require an AFS account which is connected to storage you need to act now and arrange an agreement for your use or move your data to some other place. Please consider the following points: data on the ETH AFS server: This service will only be available under a contract with the Informatikdienste as a paid service. We recommend moving your data away from AFS if possible. NAS services (SMB/CIFS, NFS) are available from the Informatikdienste or the Department of Physics. Please ask the ISG D-PHYS if you need help or advice. an AFS identity as user coming from the ETH: If you own data on other AFS servers around the world that are tied to your AFS identity from ETH you may want to keep your ETH AFS identity or transfer ownership to some other AFS identity. This service will be provided by Informatikdienste as a general service free of charge but only upon request. If you need this please let us (isg(a)phys.ethz.ch and tilo.steiger(a)id.ethz.ch) know. access of AFS servers as an anonymous user: This service will continue for the foreseeable future without further action required from your side at this time. Without a reaction from your side we assume that you don't need an AFS account anymore and you will become an anonymous user to AFS. Note: you can use an AFS identity from another cell if you have one. You don't need an ETH AFS identity for that. E.g., to use your CERN AFS identity on the Linux workstations use klog -cell cern.ch Further reading: Wer braucht noch AFS??? by Tilo Steiger at the ID-Blog You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/03/06/change-in-afs-policy-at-eth/ You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Elmar Heeb heeb(a)phys.ethz.ch

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[ISG News] Migration of group directories
by Schmid Patrick 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Migration of group directories' We need to move most some of the group directories to a bigger fileserver. This will be done on Thursday, 5. March, between 19:00 and 21:00. During this time most some of the group directories (windata, macdata, unixdata) will be limited to read-only access, and the others will have a short interruption of availability. To protect you from losing or corrupting any of your files, we strongly recommend you close all open files on the group directories. Since we have switched to generic names for our services, the group directories will still be accessible the same way as before, so you don't have to change anything. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/03/02/migration-of-group-directories/ 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

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[ISG News] Microsoft Security Bulletin for February 2009
by Schmid Patrick 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Microsoft Security Bulletin for February 2009' Last night Microsoft has released the Security Bulletin Summary for February, 2009. There are 2 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/2009/02/11/microsoft-security-bulletin-for-fe… 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

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[ISG News] Short-term DHCP server maintenance today on late afternoon
by Axel Beckert 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Short-term DHCP server maintenance today on late afternoon' We had a partial DHCP outage this morning because the failover system between our two DHCP servers malfunctioned. The problem is currently solved only prelimary by disabling the failover system and one of the two servers. To get both DHCP servers working again, we scheduled a DHCP server maintenance for today, Friday, 30th of January 2009, starting at 5pm. There may short DHCP service outages during the maintenance. This means that initially connecting to the network as well as renewing the DHCP lease respectively the IP address of your computer may fail for a few minutes. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/01/30/short-term-dhcp-server-maintenance… 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

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[ISG News] Maintenance downtime of a group server
by Schmid Patrick 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Maintenance downtime of a group server' Tomorrow morning, 28th January 2009, we have to replace a broken system harddisk on one of the group fileservers. This will cause a downtime between 07:00 and approximately 07:30. This will result in a short service interruption for the following groupdrives: astro1, hhs, isg, iya, qo, qoarchiv, qpdata, rag, ragmast, ulp-stud, zimpol2, zimpol3 To protect you from losing or corrupting any of your files, it is best to close all open files on the group directories. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/01/27/maintenance-downtime-of-a-group-se… 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

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[ISG News] Microsoft Security Bulletin for January 2009
by Patrick Frei 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Microsoft Security Bulletin for January 2009' Last night Microsoft has released the Security Bulletin Summary for January, 2009. There is 1 critical update. 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/2009/01/14/microsoft-security-bulletin-for-ja… 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

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[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

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[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

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