08 Feb 2021 CIT Cornell Wireless Network Outage: Tuesday, 09 Feb 2021 @ 5:00 AM On Tuesday, February 9th at 5:00am the Cornell University wireless system will b...
22 Dec 2020 2020: The Year in Review In the past, the CLASSE IT holiday newsletter has included statistics summarizing our activities for the year. However, 2020...
24 Dec 2019 2019: The Year in Review 2019 was another busy, transformative year for CLASSE and for CLASSE IT. We devoted significant resources to CHESS and CBET...
30 Nov 2020 AppsAnywhere Update: Tuesday, 01 Dec 2020 @ 10:00 AM On Tuesday, 01 Dec 2020, beginning at 10:00 AM, the Computing.AppsAnywhere CloudPaging Player wi...
23 Nov 2020 ScreenConnect Maintenance: Tuesday, 24 Nov 2020 @ 10:30 AM On Tuesday, 24 Nov 2020, starting at 10:30 AM, the ScreenConnect service will be unavailab...
16 Nov 2020 macOS Big Sur: Wait To Upgrade Last week, Apple released a new major version of macOS (version 11), known as Big Sur. CLASSE IT and CIT are both reco...
09 Nov 2020 Adobe Flash Deprecation: Test Your Websites As previously announced, we will be uninstalling Adobe Flash from CLASSE managed computers during the mon...
12 Oct 2020 LNS Protected Reorganization On two consecutive Tuesdays, 20 Oct 2020 and 27 Oct 2020, we will apply a security upgrade to the LNS Protected network,...
05 Oct 2020 Windows 7 Quarantine Starting Monday, 05 Oct 2020 On Monday, 05 Oct 2020, Cornell's IT Security Office will start using the Network Quarantine to con...
28 Sep 2020 Windows 7 Quarantine Starting 05 Oct 2020 On 05 Oct 2020, Cornell's IT Security Office will start using the Network Quarantine to contain, or disable...
21 Sep 2020 Web Browsers for CULearn CU101 Last week, Cornell introduced a new required staff training available as CULearn course CU101. In our testing, this co...
07 Sep 2020 CHESS Public Network Outage: Wednesday, 09 Sep 2020 @ 4:00 AM On Wednesday, 09 Sep 2020, from 4:00 AM to 7:00 AM, there will be an outage of the CHES...
31 Aug 2020 MATLAB License Renewal for 2020 2021 MATLAB licenses for CLASSE have been renewed until 31 Jul 2021. Most CLASSE installations of MATLAB (including t...
24 Aug 2020 Linux Update to SL7.8: Tuesday, 25 Aug 2020 and Wednesday, 26 Aug 2020 Starting Tuesday, we will be updating all CLASSE Scientific Linux (SL) 7 syste...
17 Aug 2020 MATLAB License Renewal for 2020 2021 MATLAB licenses for CLASSE have been renewed until 31 Jul 2021. Most CLASSE installations of MATLAB (including t...
10 Aug 2020 Service Outage Summary Last Wednesday, 05 Aug 2020, there was an extended unscheduled outage of central CLASSE IT services from approximately 10:30 A...
03 Aug 2020 AppsAnywhere Upgrade: Tuesday, 04 Aug 2020 @ 8:00 AM On Tuesday, 04 Aug 2020, from 8:00 AM to 12:00 noon, the Computing.AppsAnywhere service will be ...
27 Jul 2020 Power Outage Recovery: Monday, 27 Jul 2020 Following the scheduled power outages at Wilson Lab last weekend, all central CLASSE IT services have now ...
18 May 2020 Zoom Security Updates (Action Required) In the near future, Zoom will implement two security changes that require the following actions by its users:...
11 May 2020 Wiki Tutorial: Friday, 15 May 2020 @ 2:00 PM On Friday, 15 May 2020, at 2:00 PM, CLASSE IT will host a wiki tutorial on Zoom: https://cornell.zoom.us...
04 May 2020 Work From Home IT Purchases While working from home, if you need to purchase IT equipment or software which is intended for future use at the lab (e....
27 Apr 2020 CHESS DAQ Rotation 10AM Wednesday, 29 Apr 2020 With the completion of the 2020 1 run, the main CHESS Data Acquisition file systems will be rotated ...
20 Apr 2020 IT Purchases While working from home, if you need to purchase IT equipment or software which is intended for future use the lab (e.g. printers, moni...
13 April 2020 Online Trainings from IT@Cornell Are you looking to brush up on your computer skills? Do you want to learn a new programming language? With a Corne...
06 Apr 2020 Linux At Home If you run Linux at home and want to build software that will eventually run at CLASSE, or if you want to run software that was built a...
15 Apr 2019 ScreenConnect Upgrade: Tuesday, 16 Apr 2019 @ 10:00 AM On Tuesday, 16 Apr 2019, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 noon, we will upgrade our ScreenConnect server...
30 Apr 2018 Reminder: ScreenConnect for Remote Access, LogMeIn Deprecated After many years of using LogMeIn as our remote access solution for Windows computers, ...
26 Aug 2019 LNX201 Maintenance: Tuesday, 27 Aug 2019 @ 10:00 AM On Tuesday, 27 Aug 2019, our general purposes Linux login node, lnx201, will be DOWN for one hour...
18 Dec 2017 RESCHEDULED: Home disk maintenance Tuesday 02 Jan 2018 At approximately 4pm on Tuesday, 02 Jan 2018, all public CLASSE home directories will become...
18 Dec 2018 2018: The Year in Review It has been a year of many changes at CLASSE, with the complete overhaul of the Wilson Lab experimental areas for CHESS U an...
03 Feb 2020 Accelerator SVN Certificate Update: Tuesday, 04 Feb 2020 @ 10:00 AM On Tuesday, 04 Feb 2020, at 10:00 AM, the SSL certificate for the accelerator SVN...
12 Feb 2018 Remote Access: Introducting ScreenConnect, LogMeIn Deprecated After many years of using LogMeIn as our remote access solution for Windows computers, ...
22 Jul 2019 Virtual Machine Cluster Upgrade: Tuesday, 23 Jul 2019 @ 10:00 AM On Tuesday, 23 Jul 2019, between 10:00 AM and 12:00 noon, we will upgrade the CLASSE...
09 Mar 2020 ScreenConnect Upgrade: Tuesday, 10 Mar 2020 @ 11:30 AM On Tuesday, 10 Mar 2020, starting at 11:30 AM, the ScreenConnect service will be unavailable f...
20 May 2019 RDP Gateway Shutdown To address a recently disclosed Windows vulnerability, we have shut down the CHESS Remote Desktop Gateway server. If you are aff...
04 Nov 2019 Reminder: No Backups for Desktops and Laptops CLASSE IT does NOT provide local backups of CLASSE managed desktops and laptops. Instead, please store ...
02 Mar 2020 Upcoming Change: Windows Firewall During the spring down of April 2020, we will begin enabling the ESET firewall on CLASSE managed Windows computers,...
24 Feb 2020 Remove Windows 7 on LNS Protected and CHESS Public If you have a personal Windows 7 laptop connected to the LNS Protected or CHESS Public networks, p...
17 Feb 2020 Upcoming Change: Windows Firewall During the spring down of April 2020, we will begin enabling the ESET firewall on CLASSE managed Windows computers,...
10 Feb 2020 Goodbye, Linux Login Messages After some consideration, the CLASSE Linux login messages (technically known as the sshd banner and "message of the day...
27 Jan 2020 Autodesk 2020 Upgrade: Monday, 27 Jan 2020 @ 3:00 PM On Monday, 27 Jan 2020, at 3:00 PM, we will begin migrating Autodesk products (AutoCAD, Inventor...
17 Jan 2020 Because of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on 20 Jan 2020, next week's CLASSE IT newsletter is being delivered to you early. Autodesk 2020 Upgrade: Monday...
13 Jan 2020 AppsAnywhere Outage: TODAY, 13 Jan 2020 @ 2:00 PM With apologies for the short notice, TODAY, 13 Jan 2020, starting at 2:00 PM, there will be an outa...
06 Jan 2020 Windows 7 Network Termination: Tuesday, 07 Jan 2020 Microsoft has set an end of life date for Windows 7 of 14 Jan 2020. After this date, no security ...
23 Dec 2019 Windows 7 Network Termination on 07 Jan 2020 Microsoft has set an end of life date for Windows 7 of 14 Jan 2020. After this date, no security update...
16 Dec 2019 ScreenConnect Upgrade: Tuesday, 17 Dec 2019 @ 10:00 AM This Tuesday, 17 Dec 2019, from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM, we will be upgrading our ScreenConnect s...
09 Dec 2019 X2Go Desktop Sharing and Software Update: Tuesday, 10 Dec 2019 On Tuesday, 10 Dec 2019, a major update to the X2Go server will be pushed to all CLASS...
25 Nov 2019 New Computer Shortage Because of a widely reported shortage of Intel CPUs, many of our standard computer models are currently backordered with our su...
18 Nov 2019 LNX201 Reboot: Tuesday, 19 Nov 2019 @ 10:00 AM On Tuesday, 19 Nov 2019, at 10:00 AM, the general purpose Linux login node, LNX201, will be rebooted f...
11 Nov 2019 Windows 7 Network Termination on 07 Jan 2020 Microsoft has set an end of life date for Windows 7 of 14 Jan 2020. After this date, no security updates...
21 Oct 2019 Upgrading Windows 7 to Windows 10 On January 14, 2020, Microsoft is ending support for the Windows 7 operating system. To prepare for this deadline, ...
14 Oct 2019 CHESS Firewall Upgrade: Tuesday, 15 Oct 2019 @ 9:00 AM On Tuesday, 15 Oct 2019, from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM, we will be upgrading the internal CHESS fir...
07 OCT 2019 Tomcat maintenance 10am 08 OCT 2019 From 10 11am Tuesday, 08 OCT 2018, the CLASSE central tomcat service will be down for maintenance. During this...
30 Sep 2019 New Compute Farm Queues and Nodes Users of the CLASSE Compute Farm might notice that we recently added four new CHESS queues to the Farm. These queue...
23 Sep 2019 Samba Server Configuration Update: Monday, 23 Sep 2019 @ 5:00 PM This evening, 23 Sep 2019, at 5:00 PM, the central CLASSE Samba server will be recon...
16 Sep 2019 ESET Endpoint Security Client Update: Tuesday, 24 Sep 2019 On Tuesday, 24 Sep 2019, the ESET Endpoint Security Client will be updated on CLASSE manag...
03 Sep 2019 Newman Network Upgrade: Tuesday, 10 Sep 2019 @ 10 AM Next Tuesday, 10 Sep 2019 starting at 10:00 AM, we will be upgrading the main CLASSE network swi...
19 Aug 2019 Matlab Update The 2019a version of Matlab is now available on CLASSE Linux, using the command "matlab r 2019a" or "matlab r latest". Please see the...
12 Aug 2019 Compute Farm Outage Wednesday 14 Aug 2019 @ 1PM At 1PM Wednesday 14 Aug 2019, electrical work will be conducted on the East Module. To prepare for...
05 Aug 2019 Upcoming Compute Farm Outage In approximately two weeks, there will be a power outage in the Wilson Lab East Module, which will affect the CLASSE Com...
15 Jul 2019 ScreenConnect Upgrade: Tuesday, 16 Jul 2019 @ 10:00 AM This Tuesday, 16 Jul 2019, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 noon, we will be upgrading our ScreenConnect...
08 Jul 2019 CLASSE Account Expirations: Tuesday, 09 Jul 2019 (TOMORROW) Please note that many CLASSE accounts are set to expire on Tuesday, 09 Jul 2019. Affected...
01 Jul 2019 Timesheet Has Replaced Replicon The Replicon application for tracking effort at the lab was retired on June 30 and replaced with Timesheet. Starting ...
24 Jun 2019 Salaried Employees Begin Using Timesheet July 1 The Replicon application for tracking effort at the lab will be retired on June 30 and replaced with ...
17 Jun 2019 Hourly Employees Begin Using Timesheet App This Week The Replicon application for tracking effort at the lab will be retired this summer and replaced...
10 Jun 2019 Central Filesystem Maintenance: Tuesday, 11 Jun 2019 @ 11:00 AM On Tuesday, 11 Jun 2019, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, several central Linux filesystems ...
03 Jun 2019 Central Filesystem Maintenance: Tuesday, 04 Jun 2019 @ 12:00 Noon On Tuesday, 04 Jun 2019, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM, several central Linux filesyst...
28 May 2019 Summer Usage of Public Terminal Rooms Between 28 May 2019 and 09 Aug 2019, CLASSE will be hosting 30 summer students in the SERCCS, SUnRiSE, PREM, R...
13 May 2019 Central Filesystem Maintenance: Tuesday, 14 May 2019 @ 12:00 Noon On Tuesday, 14 May 2019, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM, central Linux filesystems will...
06 May 2019 ESET Endpoint Protection Upgrade: Tuesday, 07 May 2019 @ 10:00 AM On Tuesday, 07 May 2019, beginning at 10:00 AM, we will begin upgrading the ESET En...
22 Apr 2019 Brief Pause of CESR Online Filesystems: Tuesday, 23 Apr 2019 @ 10:00 AM On Tuesday, 23 Apr 2019, at 10:00 AM, there will be a configuration update of...
01 Apr 2019 Problems Sending Email to service classe #64;cornell.edu Beginning on Sunday, 31 Mar 2019, some users have been unable to reach service classe #64;co...
25 Mar 2019 New Computer Shortage In our 25 Feb 2019 newsletter, we noted that availability of new computers is being affected by a widely reported shortage of I...
18 Mar 2019 Possible Network Disruption: Tuesday, 19 Mar 2019 @ 10:00 AM On Tuesday, 19 Mar 2019, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 noon, there will be possible network dis...
11 Mar 2019 PSB Conference Room Computers This week, we will replace the old Linux computers in the PSB conference rooms (PSB 301, 308, and 470) with new Mac Min...
04 Mar 2019 Potential Network Disruption: Tuesday, 05 Mar 2019 @ 10:30 AM On Tuesday, 05 Mar 2019, from 10:30 AM to 12:00 noon, there will be potential network d...
25 Feb 2019 Wilson Lab West Module Switch Replacement: Tuesday, 26 Feb 2019 @ 10:00 AM On Tuesday, 26 Feb 2019, at 10:00 AM, we will replace a defective network ...
18 Feb 2019 AppsAnywhere Upgrade: Tuesday, 19 Feb 2019 @ 7:30 AM On Tuesday, 19 Feb 2019, from 7:30 AM to 12:00 noon, the Computing.AppsAnywhere service will be ...
11 Feb 2019 Wilson Lab Chilled Water Shutdown: Potential Disruptions and Performance Degradation From 11 Feb 2019 (today) through 22 Feb 2019, the Wilson Lab ser...
28 Jan 2018 AppsAnywhere Upgrade: Tuesday, 19 Feb 2019 @ 7:30 AM On Tuesday, 19 Feb 2019, from 7:30 AM to 12:00 noon, the Computing.AppsAnywhere service will be ...
21 Jan 2019 Compute Farm Outage: Ongoing The CLASSE Compute Farm queues are currently disabled in preparation for an upgrade to the network and to the SGE queue ...
14 Jan 2019 Autodesk Inventor Upgrade: Tuesday, 15 Jan 2019 On Tuesday, 15 Jan 2019, Autodesk Inventor will be upgraded to SP4.7 during the weekly maintenance wi...
07 Jan 2019 CLASSE Filesystem and Linux Outage: Tuesday, 08 Jan 2019 @ 5:00 PM On Tuesday, 08 Jan 2019, from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM, we will be replacing a central s...
17 Dec 2018 Update to SL7.6: Tuesday, 18 Dec 2018 Starting Tuesday morning, 18 Dec 2018, all CLASSE SL7 systems will be updated from Scientific Linux 7.5 to Scie...
10 Dec 2018 Network Interruption: Tuesday, 11 Dec 2018 @ 10:30 AM On Tuesday, 11 Dec 2018, from 10:30 AM to 12:00 noon, CLASSE IT will perform network maintenanc...
12 Nov 2018 Changes to Adobe Creative Cloud Licensing Because of changes to Cornell's contract with Adobe, users of Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) must now have an in...
05 Nov 2018 WinAPP To Be Replaced With WinAPP2: Tuesday, 06 Nov 2018 Starting Tuesday, 06 Nov 2018, the official CLASSE Windows terminal server will be WinAPP2 (...
03 Apr 2017 Duo Enrollment Clinic: Wednesday, 05 Apr 2017 Starting 20 Apr 2017, IT@Cornell will require Two Step Login to access financial and tax related tasks ...
29 Oct 2018 CLASSE ELOG Server Upgrade: Tuesday, 30 Oct 2018 @ 10:00 AM The CLASSE ELOG server will be upgraded at 10:00 AM on Tuesday, 30 Oct 2018, to include s...
22 Oct 2018 Replicon Maintenance: Tuesday, 23 Oct 2018 @ 10:00 AM On Tuesday, 23 Oct 2018, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 noon, Replicon will be unavailable while it und...
15 Oct 2018 Urgency of Service Requests When you submit a Computing.ServiceRequest via our web form, you have the opportunity to provide an urgency rating indica...
08 Oct 2018 Password Management Tool Outage: Tuesday, 09 Oct 2018 @ 10:00 AM On Tuesday, 09 Oct 2018, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 noon, the CLASSE online password man...
01 Oct 2018 Wilson Lab Computing Outage: Tuesday, 02 Oct 2018 @ 9:00 AM On Tuesday, 02 Oct 2018 at 9:00 AM, there will be a CLASSE computing disruption for some ...
24 Sep 2018 CLASSE Computing Outage: Tuesday, 25 Sep 2018 @ 8:30 AM On Tuesday, 25 Sep 2018 at 8:30 AM, there will be disruptions to CLASSE computing services be...
17 Sep 2018 Update to SL7.5: Tuesday, 25 Sep 2018 Starting Tuesday morning, 25 Sep 2018, all CLASSE SL7 systems will update from Scientific Linux 7.4 to Scientif...
July 25, 2016 Reboot of LNX201 on Tuesday, July 26 at 10 AM Our general purpose Linux login node, lnx201, will be rebooted at 10 AM on Tuesday, July 26 for routi...
10 Sep 2018 Virtual Machine Maintenance: Tuesday, 11 Sep 2018 @ 10:00 AM Starting at 10:00 AM on Tuesday, 11 Sep 2018, the main CLASSE Virtual Machine infrastruc...
27 Aug 2018 Decommissioning CLASSE HyperNews, 31 Aug 2018 With the widespread use of Cornell mailing lists, the CLASSE HyperNews service has seen no significant ...
20 Aug 2018 ScreenConnect server update, 21 Aug 2018 On Tuesday, 21 Aug 2018, from 10 AM to 12 noon, we will upgrade the ScreenConnect server. You will be unable...
Aug 06 2018 Full X2Go Client on CLASSE Managed Windows computers We are deploying the full X2Go Client on all CLASSE Managed Windows computers this week. This wi...
30 Jul 2018 Linux SL6 and SL7 nVidia Graphics Driver updates on Tuesday 31 Jul 2018: Tomorrow morning, updates of the latest nVidia Graphics Drivers will be push...
23 Jul 2018 Network Outage: TOMORROW, 24 Jul 2018 @ 12:00 Noon At 12:00 noon on Tuesday, 24 Jul 2018, we will upgrade the network infrastructure for the CLASSE C...
16 Jul 2018 Disk Server Reboot: Samba and Main User Disk, Tue 17 Jul 2018 @ 12:00 Noon At 12:00 noon on Tuesday, 17 Jul 2018, one of our central disk servers wil...
09 Jul 2018 CLASSE Account Expirations, Today 09 Jul 2018 Please note that many CLASSE accounts are set to expire today, 09 Jul 2018. Affected users will have re...
02 Jul 2018 CLASSE Account Expirations on 09 Jul 2018 Please note that many CLASSE accounts are set to expire on 09 Jul 2018. Affected users will receive a warni...
18 Jun 2018 Linux transition to Scientific Linux 7 (SL7) We are now in full transition mode from SL6 to SL7. If you have a CLASSE Linux workstation running SL6,...
04 Jun 2018 CST Studio Suite (Microwave Studio) The CST Studio Suite license server has been updated with this year's license and moved from pc176 to lnxlm. *...
May 29th, 2018 LogMeIn deprecated CLASSE is retiring LogMeIn and will be contacting people who have access to CLASSE managed computers via LogMeIn. You will rece...
21 May 2018 Vidyo on PSB in room linux computers To use Vidyo on a PSB in room computer, start Firefox and go to https://vidyowebrtc.cern.ch/web/index.html, use...
23 Apr 2018 CESR Network Isolation test tomorrow, 24 Apr 2018 On Tuesday, 24 Apr 2018, there will be a CESR Network Isolation test from approximately noon 1pm. T...
16 Apr 2018 In an emergency.... If you have a computer related emergency, please follow up your Computing.ServiceRequest with a beamphone page or a phone call. T...
09 Apr 2018 Linux Packages Updates The following software packages have been updated (both Scientific Linux 6 and Scientific Linux 7, unless noted): * Ansys (...
02 Apr 2018 CHESS Data Rotation Tuesday 03 Apr 2018 Starting at 3pm Tuesday, 4/3, the main CHESS DAQ and Maia filesystems will become read only and backed up t...
19 Mar 2018 CESR Network Isolation test tomorrow, 20 Mar 2018 On Tuesday, 20 Mar 2018, there will be a CESR Network Isolation test from approximately noon 1pm. ...
12 Mar 2018 C: Drive filling up on CLASSE managed Windows computers Many CLASSE managed Windows computers are experiencing an unfortunate side effect of a recent...
March 5th, 2018 New Image Viewer for CLASSE Managed Windows computers Due to limitations in the base Windows 10 image and to provide consistent software across W...
February 19th, 2018 CLASSE Network Outage Tuesday, February 20th, 2018 CLASSE IT is planning an upgrade to our central Firewall system at 10am. This will interru...
05 Feb 2018 CLASSE Compute Farm is running Scientific Linux 7 (SL7) * All the nodes on the CLASSE Compute Farm have been upgraded to SL7! * Please keep thi...
29 Jan 2018 Retirements: Selden Ball and Rich Sholtys At the end of January, we bid a fond farewell to two longtime members of the CLASSE IT team: Rich Sholtys a...
16 Jan 2018 Database Support and Solutions Do you have a need for a database? Do you have a lot of data you want to keep in a centralized, backed up location? CL...
08 Jan 2018 Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities Last week, a pair of serious hardware vulnerabilities (dubbed Meltdown and Spectre) was disclosed, affecting nea...
02 Jan 2018 Home disk maintenance 4pm Today At approximately 4pm on Tuesday, 02 Jan 2018, all public CLASSE home directories will become unavailable for up to ...
11 Dec 2017 Change to Caller ID Beginning Saturday, December 16, calls placed from your Cornell phone to off campus numbers will display your Cornell phone numbe...
04 Dec 2017 Do not forward CU mail To avoid blocks on your Cornell email, it is important that you do not forward your CU Mail to any external mail providers (cm...
20 Nov 2017 CLASSE Accelerator Repository Server Upgrade The CLASSE Accelerator Repository Server (accserv.lepp.cornell.edu) has been upgraded to version 1.9.3. ...
06 Nov 2017 CESR Cluster Maintenance 10 AM to 12 PM (Noon) on Tuesday, 7 Nov 2017 The CESR Cluster will be rebooted at 10 AM on Tuesday. This is necessary to ...
24 Oct 2017 Power Outage Tuesday Morning. There was a campus wide power outage at about 7:15 AM EDT on Tuesday, 24 Oct 2017. It took down many central CLASSE com...
16 Oct 2017 Reminder: reduced coverage due to meeting support Responses to IT problem reports might be delayed because people are busy supporting the various pro...
09 Oct 2017 Update to SL7.4 on Tuesday, 10 Oct 2017 Starting Tuesday morning, 10 Oct 2017, all CLASSE SL7 systems will update from Scientific Linux 7.3 to Scien...
02 Oct 2017 Software Installation Policy CLASSE IT understands that many users often require specific software to accomplish the Lab's research mission. We make ...
18 Sep 2017 CHESS DAQ Rotation, 22 Sep 2017, 10am At approximately 10am Friday 22 Sep 2017, the main CHESS DAQ and MAIA file systems will become read only. A fi...
11 Sep 2017 Some central services unvailable on Tuesday, 12 Sep 2017 From 10:00 AM until about 2 PM on Tuesday, 12 Sep 2017, some central CLASSE services that re...
August 28th, 2017 Microsoft Office Upgrade on Tuesday, 29 AUG 2017 Microsoft Office will be upgraded from 2010 to Microsoft Office 2016 on CLASSE Managed Windows...
21 AUG 2017 W210_XRX_5550 The old Xerox 5550 printer stopped working. We replaced that printer with a new Brother 6200 printer. The printer name stayed the sa...
14 AUG 2017 Windows Firefox and Flash updates, Tuesday, 15 AUG 2017 CLASSE managed Windows computers will be updated early Tuesday morning to have Firefox ESR 52...
07 Aug 2017 Update to SL6.9 on Tuesday, 08 Aug 2017 Starting Tuesday morning, 08 Aug 2017, all CLASSE SL6 systems will update from Scientific Linux 6.8 to Scient...
31 Jul 2017 Network interruptions, Tuesday, 01 Aug 2017 Network maintenance on Tuesday 01 Aug 2017 from 9 AM to 12 noon EDT will cause 20 to 30 minute interrupt...
24 Jul 2017 Network interruptions, Tuesday 01 Aug 2017 We will be performing network maintenance on Tuesday 01 Aug 2017 from 9 AM to noon. During this window, t...
17 Jul 2017 Linux Packages Updates The following software packages are now available under both Scientific Linux 6 and Scientific Linux 7: * Ansys (and AnsysE...
10 Jul 2017 Central virtual machine maintenance Tuesday 11 Jul 2017 From approximately 10 10:30am, the following central virtual machines will be rebooted. ...
3 Jul 2017 Central virtual machine maintenance Wednesday 5 Jul 2017 From approximately 10 10:30am, the following central virtual machines will be rebooted. l...
26 Jun 2017 CLASSE and CHESS firewall scans, 29 Jun 2017 On Thursday, 29 Jun 2017, at 1:30 PM, we will perform a routine vulnerability scan of the CLASSE and CHE...
12 Jun 2017 Phishing emails When forwarding a questionable message to service classe, please be sure to change your subject line. If the subject is the same and ...
05 Jun 2017 Possible delays in response June 5 9 The week of June 5 9 will be a busy one for CLASSE IT, with summer students arriving at the same time as the CBB...
30 May 2017 Possible delays in response June 05 11 The week of June 05 11 will be a busy one for CLASSE IT, with summer students arriving at the same time as the...
22 May 2017 Exchange E mail CNAMEs to be retired CIT will retire 58,000 CNAMEs on Monday, 22 May 2017 that were created during the Office 365 project. For the mo...
15 May 2017 WannaCry Ransomware Worldwide, more than 200,000 computers have been infected with the "WannaCry" malware/ransomware over this past weekend. To prote...
08 May 2017 Samba With the goal of addressing periodic delays and slowdowns accessing samba, the IT group has made several significant configuration changes to o...
01 May 2017 Firefox Update to 52.1.0ESR on CLASSE Managed Windows Computers * CLASSE is updating to the new major ESR release 52 from 45 which we have used fo...
24 Apr 2017 Power outage Sunday, 23 Apr 2017 There was a brief power outage on campus Sunday morning around 9:20 AM. Most of the core CLASSE IT servers rode out ...
10 Apr 2017 Second Duo Enrollment Clinic: Thursday, 13 Apr 2017 Starting 20 Apr 2017, IT@Cornell will require Two Step Login to access financial and tax related ...
March 20, 2017 Autodesk upgrade on Monday 17 Apr 2017 We are tentatively scheduling a major upgrade to our Autodesk software products on Monday, April 17. As par...
Monday, March 13, 2017 Zoom training reminder Zoom will be replacing WebEx as Cornell's web and video conferencing service in June 2017. Zoom Basic training will...
Monday, March 6, 2017 Two step login for Cornell services To help protect your Cornell NetID and password, we strongly encourage you to sign up for two step logi...
February 27, 2017 Service request response times We typically receive 3000 new service requests per year, generating hundreds of emails per day. We make every ef...
February 20, 2017 CLASSE network and service maintenance Tuesday, February 21, starting at 10AM We will be reconfiguring core CLASSE switches and restarting seve...
February 13, 2017 Core CLASSE network disruption Tuesday, February 14th, starting at 10AM We will be updating and restarting a core 1Gbit CLASSE switch at 10AM. ...
February 6, 2017 Power outage recovery Following the extended power outage in the Ithaca area on Saturday (Feb. 4), we restored almost all central CLASSE IT serv...
January 23, 2017 All VMS computers were shut down on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 This past Tuesday marked the end of an era: the last of the CLASSE computers runni...
January 13, 2017 CHESS User file system maintenance 10am Tuesday, January 17 At 10am on Tuesday, January 17, the CHESS User directory (/nfs/chess/aux/user) wil...
January 9, 2017 Network Maintenance 10am Tuesday On Tuesday January 10 at 10am, we will restart several infrastructure services that may result in brief pauses...
December 19, 2016 CHESS DAQ Read Only Tuesday, 12/20 At approximately 10am on Tuesday, 12/20, the main CHESS DAQ and MAIA file systems will become read only. ...
December 5th, 2016 Theft of login credentials: Phishing Many people at Cornell recently received a fraudulent message which was designed to steal their Google lo...
November 21, 2016 Windows updates: an update Last Tuesday, November 15, many CLASSE managed Windows computers rebooted between 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM because of thi...
November 7, 2016 New Wiki Search Engine The default wiki search engine used when entering text in the upper right corner "Search" box has been updated as follows...
Monday, October 31, 2016 Happy Halloween! Forcing SSL to www.classe.cornell.edu In response to a Cornell security audit, the CLASSE IT group will be forcing SS...
October 24, 2016 Windows updates: changes and challenges We would like to provide more information about the new Windows update mechanism from Microsoft that we ...
Monday, October 17, 2016 Windows 7: new update mechanisms Starting this week, CLASSE managed Windows computers will be adapting to Microsoft's new update system,...
October 10, 2016 Symantec expires next week REMINDER: Cornell's Symantec Anti Virus software license expires on October 21st. If you have Symantec Endpoint Prote...
October 3, 2016 Network maintenance 2 4pm Tuesday October 4 From 2 4pm Tuesday, October 4, there may be periodic network glitches as we update the configuration ...
September 26, 2016 Network Maintenance from 12 4 Wednesday, September 28. There will be periodic network glitches between Noon and 4pm on Wednesday, September 28...
September 19, 2016 Network Maintenance from 10 2 tomorrow: Tuesday, September 20. There will be periodic network glitches between 10am and 2pm tomorrow, Tuesday,...
September 12th, 2016 Microsoft is changing Windows servicing model October 2016 * Microsoft is changing their servicing model significantly starting in Octobe...
August 29, 2016 Possible network glitch 10 AM Tuesday 8/30 At approximately 10 AM tomorrow, Tuesday, August 30th, there may be a momentary network glitch or pa...
August 22, 2016 Update to SL6.8 on Tuesday, August 23 Starting Tuesday morning, 8/23, all CLASSE SL6 systems will update from Scientific Linux 6.6 to Scientific ...
August 15, 2016 Update to SL6.8 on Tuesday, August 23 Starting Tuesday morning, 8/23, all CLASSE SL6 systems will update from Scientific Linux 6.6 to Scientific ...
August 8, 2016 Reboot of LNX201 on Tuesday, August 9 at 10 AM Our general purpose Linux login node, lnx201, will be rebooted at 10 AM on Tuesday, August 9 for ro...
July 18, 2016 Reminder: The end of VMS at CLASSE After many years of service, all CLASSE computers which are running the legacy VMS operating system will be shut...
July 11, 2016 SSHFS (alternative protocol for Macintosh access to samba drives) looking for a small number of "beta testers" SSHFS (SSH Filesystem) is a filesy...
July 05, 2016 Many CLASSE computer accounts will expire on Saturday, July 9th. Quite a few CLASSE computer accounts are scheduled to expire on Saturday, July 9th...
June 27, 2016 The end of VMS at CLASSE After many years of service, all CLASSE computers which are running the legacy VMS operating system will be shut down this...
June 20, 2016 TeX Live 2016 now available The newest version of TeX Live 2016 is now available to all CLASSE Linux SL6 and SL7 systems. Please see https://wiki....
June 14, 2016 Replicon outage June 15 16, new timesheets Yesterday, all CLASSE staff members received an email announcement of a change to Replicon timesheets be...
June 06, 2016 LNX201 reboot at 10am Tuesday, June 7 LNX201 will reboot at 10am Tuesday, June 7 for routine maintenance. Please logout of lnx201 before 10am Tues...
May 31, 2016 Possible delays in response June 6 10 The week of June 6 10 will be a busy one for CLASSE IT, with summer students arriving during the CHESS Users'...
May 23, 2016 Blocked email attachments Starting today, Cornell's email system will block attachments of file types that are frequently used to distribute malware...
May 16, 2016 CLASSE ELOG Authentication On Tuesday 5/17, the CLASSE ELOG authentication system will change slightly. You will still login using your CLASSE user...
May 9, 2016 Change is in the air In response to feedback from our user community, we are piloting a new HTML version of our newsletter, delivered directly to CLA...