Maintenance Outage: Wired and Wireless Networks 6/1/13
SCS Computing Facilities has received the following maintenance outage notification from Computing Services. Details
Kerberos Service Outage and Kerberos 4 Phase-Out
On June 5, 2013, SCS Computing Facilities will discontinue support for Kerberos 4, the AFS Kerberos-based authentication service (kaserver) and the Kerberos version 5-to-4 ticket translation service (krb524). Details
Off-campus recursive DNS access to be disabled
On Wednesday, May 29, 2013, SCS Domain Name Servers (DNS) will no longer accept recursive DNS queries from off campus. Details
Network Maintenance: 300 South Craig Street 5/28/2013
On Tuesday, May 28, 2013 SCS Computing Facilities staff will upgrade network components at 300 South Craig Street. Details
May 2013 Critical Windows, Adobe, and Office 2011 for Mac patches
On May 14, 2013, Microsoft released critical patches for Windows and Office 2011 for Macs. Adobe has also released critical patches for Reader, Acrobat, and Flash Player. Details
Action Required: Elimination of Single-DES Support
SCS Computing Facilities continually works to enhance computer security for the SCS community. The latest effort involves eliminating the use of single-DES (Data Encryption Standard) in favor of stronger cryptographic algorithms, contributing to a more secure computing environment. This change will require all users to change their SCS Kerberos passwords by Monday August 12, 2013. Details
Upcoming Instance Manager Changes
On Thursday, April 25, 2013 SCS Computing Facilities will will make changes to the Kerberos Instance Manager to enable the management of SCS Windows accounts. Details
iPass Service Alert: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
SCS Computing Facilities has received the following service alert from iPass. Details
EOL Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) LTS - Desktop
At the end of April 2013 the support period by Canonical for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) LTS - Desktop formally ends. Details
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