Mac Software Release, April 3rd - 2013

Monday, April 01, 2013

By Lucas Moore

CIT will be releasing the following Mac software for deployment on Wednesday, April 3rd. When prompted, please install the updates at your earliest convenience.


Platform: Mac OS X


Application/Patch Title(s):
Acrobat Pro 11.0.02
Flash Player 11.6.602.180
Microsoft Office 2011 14.3.2
Microsoft Office 2008 12.3.6
Firefox 17.0.4esr
Silverlight 5.1.20125.0
Absolute Manage Agent 6.2


Target Audiences - Faculty/Staff
Computer Labs and Smart Classrooms will be updated on 04/17/13


Prompt to Launch? Yes
Defer Launch? Yes up to 3 days
Possible Reboot? No
Defer Reboot? N/A


CIT Comments:
The Absolute Manage update will be installed separately from the other updates.  This means you will receive two separate pop-up windows for updates this week.


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

Desktop Software Changes • Permalink

PC Software Release, April 3rd - 2013

Wednesday, April 03, 2013

By Gary Ossewaarde

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

Platform: Windows

Application/Patch Title(s):
Flash 11.6.602.180
Flash (IE) 11.6.602.180
Silverlight 5.1.20125.0
Firefox ESR 17.0.4


Target Audiences - Faculty/Staff and Smart Classrooms


Prompt to Launch? Yes
Defer Launch? No
Possible Reboot? No
Defer Reboot? n/a


CIT Comments:
June 2012 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

Permalink

PC Software Release, April 17th - 2013

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

By Lucas Moore

CIT will be releasing the following Windows software for deployment on Wednesday, April 17th. 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):
MS13-015       2789642 Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 (All Languages)
MS13-028   Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2817183)
MS13-029   Vulnerability in Remote Desktop Client Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2828223)
MS13-031   Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2813170)
MS13-033   Vulnerability in Windows Client/Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS) Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2820917)
MS13-035   Vulnerability in HTML Sanitization Component Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2821818)
MS13-036   Vulnerabilities in Kernel-Mode Driver Could Allow Elevation Of Privilege (2829996)
MS 2791765     Application Compatibility Update for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (March 2013) (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:
April 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

Desktop Software Changes • Permalink

Mac Software Release, April 17th - 2013

By Lucas Moore

CIT will be releasing the following Mac software for deployment on Wednesday, April 17th. When prompted, please install the updates at your earliest convenience.


Platform: Mac OS X


Application/Patch Title(s):
iPhoto 9.4.3
Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 15
Java for OS X 2013-002
Safari 6.0.4


Target Audiences - Faculty/Staff
Computer Labs and Smart Classrooms will be updated on 05/01/13


Prompt to Launch? Yes
Defer Launch? Yes up to 3 days
Possible Reboot? No
Defer Reboot? N/A


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

Desktop Software Changes • Permalink

Scheduled Maintenance for April 18, 2013

Thursday, April 18, 2013

By Christopher Wieringa

Please note: this has been rescheduled for 4/25/2013.

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.

Planned Network/Server Changes • Permalink

Scheduled Maintenance for April 25, 2013

Thursday, April 25, 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.

Planned Network/Server Changes • Permalink

Scheduled Maintenance for April 25, 2013 - Seminary

By Jeff Greenfield

The seminary file server luther will be unavailable for a period of time between 6AM and 7AM on 4/25 for some maintenance work.

Planned Network/Server Changes • Permalink

PC Software Release, May 1st 2013

Monday, April 29, 2013

By Gary Ossewaarde

CIT will be releasing the following Windows software for deployment on
Wednesday, May 1st. When prompted, please install the updates at your
earliest convenience.

Platform: Windows

Application/Patch Title(s):

Firefox ESR 17.0.5
VLC 2.0.6
Flash 11.7.700.169
Java 7.0.210.11
Java 6.0.450.6
Shockwave 12.0.2.122
Adobe Air 3.7.0.1530
CDBurnerXP 4.5.1.4003


Target Audiences - Faculty/Staff


Prompt to Launch? Yes
Defer Launch? No
Possible Reboot? No
Defer Reboot? n/a


CIT Comments:

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

Permalink

Mac Software Release, May 1st - 2013

By Lucas Moore

CIT will be releasing the following Mac software for deployment on Wednesday, May 1st. When prompted, please install the updates at your earliest convenience.


Platform: Mac OS X


Application/Patch Title(s):
Flash Player 11.7.700.159
Firefox 17.0.5esr


Target Audiences - Faculty/Staff
Computer Labs and Smart Classrooms will be updated on 05/15/13


Prompt to Launch? Yes
Defer Launch? Yes up to 3 days
Possible Reboot? No
Defer Reboot? N/A


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

Desktop Software Changes • Permalink
Page 1 of 1 pages