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[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

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[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

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[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

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[ISG News] Backup service for laptops and lab PCs
by Axel Beckert 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Backup service for laptops and lab PCs' Since Netbackup can't handle backups of PCs with intermittent network access (e.g. laptops or seldomly used lab PCs) nor MacOS X 10.5 or Windows Vista, there is a rising demand for backup of computers. For D-PHYS-owned laptops, laptops holding a relevant amount of ETH D-PHYS data, and for D-PHYS lab PCs, we now offer a backup service specifically targeted at computers with intermittent network access. It uses the free backup system BackupPC which does not need a local backup client to be installed on the computers to be backed up. We ran the service in beta test for a couple of months and gathered a lot of experience with BackupPC. So we can now offer easy and regular backups of computers running any flavour of Linux and MacOS X, and---with the addition of locally installed 3rd party software (Cygwin)---also for Windows XP. Windows Vista as well as Windows XP without 3rd party software will follow. Read more about this service in our documentation wiki. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2008/11/20/backuppc/ 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 Newsletter: Printer server broke down completely over the weekend
by ISG Department Physik 10 Nov '08

10 Nov '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Printer server broke down completely over the weekend http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2008/11/10/printer-server-broke-down-completel… Currently our printer server "leuggel" is not available. It broke down completely over the weekend. We are currently setting up a temporary replacement. We apologize for the inconvenience. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xen hosting http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1225785453 Even though the [1]list of our services has reached quite some extend, there are some special needs we cannot cover with our standard services. In well-founded cases we now offer virtualized Xen machines with full root access. Please contact us if you think this could be for you References 1. https://wiki.phys.ethz.ch/readme/summary_of_the_services_we_provide ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windows login on LTSP Thin Clients http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1225459893 Incited by the success of our [1]Linux-based noiseless thin clients we were highly motivated to further increase the benefit of these clients to our users. Today, we are happy to announce the availability of Windows logins on these machines. Read on if you're interested in giving it a try. References 1. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1204219612 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Readme http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/1 Windows Terminal Server login on LTSP thin clients http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/251 Printing with SMB (Windows) http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Downtime of D-PHYS Webserver this evening http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1225197664 To resolve some performance issues with our main webserver "zwoelfi" by updating its BIOS, there will be short downtime of the webserver this evening at about 17:30. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 25 Oct '08

25 Oct '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft announced an high critical security bulletin http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1224839746 Last night [1]Microsoft has released an high critical [2]Security Bulletin (MS08-067). Users running any version of Windows must install the patch today urgently! The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an affected system received a specially crafted RPC request. It is possible that this vulnerability could be used in the crafting of a wormable exploit. References 1. http://www.microsoft.com/ 2. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 16 Oct '08

16 Oct '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft Security Bulletin for October 2008 http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1224055953 Last night [1]Microsoft has released the [2]Security Bulletin Summary for October, 2008. There are 4 critical , 6 important and 1 moderate updates. If Automatic Update is not activated yet, then you must visit [3]Microsoft Update to install the Security Updates. References 1. http://www.microsoft.com/ 2. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-oct.mspx 3. http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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