The SCS Help Desk and Purchasing office will close at 3:00pm on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 for the Thanksgiving holiday. Details

Microsoft released new patches for critical Windows and Microsoft Office vulnerabilities on November 10, 2009. Also, Adobe recently released critical patches for Adobe Shockwave Player. Details

On Thursday, November 5, 2009 SCS Computing Facilities will begin upgrading the Linux general purpose servers (linux.gp.cs.cmu.edu) from the current OS FC5 to F10. Details

On October 22, 2009 Microsoft released the Windows 7 operating system. Vendors will be shipping new PCs with this new OS. SCS Computing Facilities does not currently support this new OS. Details.

Apple has recently released OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and all new Macs are shipping with this new OS. SCS Computing Facilities does not currently support this software release but will provide a best effort support until Mac OS X 10.6 is fully supported. Details

SCS Facilities has received an announcement from iPass concerning Dulles (IAD) and Reagan National (DCA) Airports, Washington DC, US Details

SCS Computing Facilities has released a new version (5.05.290) of the Windows 2000, XP and Vista VPN client for 32 bit machines. Details