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...