Mac Software Release, March 6th - 2013

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

By Lucas Moore

CIT will be releasing the following Mac software for deployment on Wednesday, March 6th. When prompted, please install the updates at your earliest convenience.


Platform: Mac OS X


Application/Patch Title(s):
Acrobat Pro 10.1.6
Adobe Reader 11.0.02
Flash Player 11.6.602.171
Office 2011 14.3.1
Firefox 17.0.3esr
Java 7 Update 17


Target Audiences - Faculty/Staff
Computer Labs and Smart Classrooms will be updated on 03/20/13


Prompt to Launch? Yes
Defer Launch? Yes up to 3 days
Possible Reboot? Yes
Defer Reboot? Yes up to 5 minutes

Please report any problems immediately to the CIT HelpDesk at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call 526-8555.

Comments:
Labs and Smart Classrooms will be updated with the latest versions of Flash and Java on 03/06/2013 instead of 03/20/2013.


More information about CIT patch management is available at:
http://www.calvin.edu/it/core/network/maintenance/patchmanagement.html

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PC Software Release, March 20th - 2013

Monday, March 18, 2013

By Lucas Moore

CIT will be releasing the following Windows software for deployment on Wednesday, March 20th. The patches will be installed silently and prompt you to restart your computer once they have finished.  Please restart your computer at your earliest convenience.


Platform: Windows


Application/Patch Title(s):
MS13-019       Vulnerability in Windows Client/Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS) could allow elevation of privilege
MS13-021     Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2809289)
MS13-022     Vulnerability in Silverlight Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2814124)
MS13-023     Vulnerability in Microsoft Visio Viewer 2010 Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2801261) 
MS13-025     Vulnerability in Microsoft OneNote Could Allow Information Disclosure (2816264)
MS13-027     Vulnerabilities in Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Elevation Of Privilege (2807986)
MS 2773072     Update for Windows 7 (All Languages)


Target Audiences - Faculty/Staff and Smart Classrooms


Prompt to Launch? No
Defer Launch? No
Possible Reboot? Yes
Defer Reboot? Yes, up to 18 hours


CIT Comments:
March 2013 Security patches from Microsoft


Please report any problems immediately to the CIT HelpDesk at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call 526-8555.


More information about CIT patch management is available at:
http://www.calvin.edu/it/core/network/maintenance/patchmanagement.html

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Mac Software Release, March 20th - 2013

By Lucas Moore

CIT will be releasing the following Mac software for deployment on Wednesday, March 20th. When prompted, please install the updates at your earliest convenience.


Platform: Mac OS X


Application/Patch Title(s):
Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 14
Java for OS X 2013-002 (10.7 and 10.8)
Safari 6.0.3
Security Update 2013-001 (10.6 and 10.7)
Mac OS X 10.8.3


Target Audiences - Faculty/Staff
Computer Labs and Smart Classrooms will be updated on 04/03/13


Prompt to Launch? Yes
Defer Launch? Yes up to 3 days
Possible Reboot? Yes
Defer Reboot? Yes, up to 5 minutes


Please report any problems immediately to the CIT HelpDesk at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call 526-8555.


More information about CIT patch management is available at:
http://www.calvin.edu/it/core/network/maintenance/patchmanagement.html

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Scheduled Maintenance for March 20, 2013

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

By Christopher Wieringa

On Wednesday, March 20 at 3:00 AM - 7:00 AM, CIT will be cutting over to new
network hardware. 

During this maintenance period, Calvin’s entire network will be down and
inaccessible at times.  Our campus network will not be reachable from off
campus.  Our servers will remain operational, but they will not be accessible
to most campus computers or connections from outside Calvin.

Please contact the HelpDesk if you have any questions.

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Scheduled Maintenance for March 21, 2013

Thursday, March 21, 2013

By Christopher Wieringa

The following systems and services are scheduled for maintenance this Thursday morning:

- Campus Store Backoffice server
- Campus Store Application server
- ArcGIS server
- MSSQL database servers (HEAT, Physical Plant, Surveys, Calendar and other database-driven applications) ***
- Inquisite server
- Datatel Web UI server
- ZCM SQL server ***
- Great Plains finanacial application server
- Calvin Portal
- Datatel Portal MSSQL server
- Istrategy Datawarehouse server
- Istrategy Datawarehouse test server
- CBORD Server for Food Service and Roommate Matching
- RuffaloCody Phoneathon Server
- Web room reservations and calendar server
- Box Office Ticketing Server
- ImageNow Server for scanning and document retrieval
- ImageNow Webnow server
- Lyris list management server (i.e. Calvin Parents, etc)
- Micros machines and handheld devices used for Food Service server
- (Internal) VMWare Control Server ***
- Prince Conference Center reservations server
- Prince Conference Center web server
- TMA Physical Plant work-order system (and iServiceDesk)
- Datatel UI4 server
- VMWare View control server***
- VMWare View antivirus servers
- VPN service

*** Many Calvin services will be affected during this outage; some services may be affected that are not listed.

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