Computing Facilities - School of Computer Science

On Tuesday, July 29th, 2014 SCS Computing Facilities staff will be performing maintenance on the SAN switch in the machine room in the Gates Hillman Center. Details

July 2014 Critical Windows, Adobe, and Office for Mac patches

On July 8, 2014, Microsoft released critical patches for Windows and Adobe released critical patches for Flash Player and AIR. Patches have also recently been released for Office 2011 for Mac. Details

[New Service] Backup Status Dashboard

As part of our ongoing efforts to improve our backup and data protection services, SCS Computing Facilities is pleased to announce the Backup Status Dashboard. Details

[Service Upgrade] New version of Roundcube for SCS webmail

A new version of the Roundcube webmail client will be available starting on Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Details

[New Service] Data Protection for Laptops

In response to your feedback, SCS Computing Facilities is pleased to announce a new service for data protection on mobile devices. Details

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SCS Computing Facilities Announces Support for Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.x, Changes to Printing and more...

SCS Computing Facilities is pleased to announce support for Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.x. In addition, as part of the standard SCS Mac OS baseline installation, we are now offering the JAMF Casper Suite of "Self Service" tools. Details

If you are new to SCS

Our introductory documentation has some information to help you get started, including the slides from the 2013 Facilities Immigration Course talks.

Popular links

User account related links		Machine related links
SCS account application (PDF)		Recommended PC configurations
SCS Cluster-only account application (PDF)		as of May 2014
SCS Email client configuration settings
SCS Email Address Management Page		Purchase Request Form
Change your SCS passwords		SCS network registration
SCS web reports		PC software installation/upgrade request form
Use your Andrew username and password to view these reports.		Mac software installation/upgrade request form
		Backup Status Dashboard

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