February 25th, 2013 Today's topics: LEPP Windows computers Firefox update during standard Windows update schedule We will be updating the Firefox bundle as follo...
Monday, February 18. 2013. Today's topics: Exchange to Office 365 migration: informational sessions There will be informational sessions about the migration to ...
February 5, 2013 Today's topics: CLASSE e mail migration to Office 365 will happen on February 20th. If you did not receive a notice about your Exchange mailbox...
January 28, 2013 Today's topics: Requesting Computers and Computer Accounts The LEPP Web site includes links to many useful Web and Wiki pages. When new arrival...
January 22nd, 2013 Today's topics: CLASSE Service service classe #64;cornell.edu can now be used for submitting service requests to the CLASSE Computer Group for...
January 14th, 2013 Today's topics: RedRover wireless, VPN, SAMBA, and CLASSE login training The "LNS Protected" wireless network has been shut down in Wilson Lab...
Resolving SAMBA access issues Password required LNSNTCAD computer If you are on Windows XP, you may be prompted to authenticate to SAMBA. You should consider up...
January 7th, 2013 Today's topics: Open Session for Red Rover, bring your lab laptop 1PM, Jan 14th, 2013 in Wilson Commons There will be an Open Session for Red ...
January 2, 2013 Today's topics: Use your CLASSE userid and password for SAMBA starting January 3rd Currently, access to the server known as "samba" from Windows...
Starting EVO from a LEPP Conference Room 1. double click on the koala.jnlp or EVO file on the linux system's desktop. 1. click on OK to login using the save...
Setting Firefox To Use the Full PDF Program to view PDFs Firefox often wants to open PDFs in the browser. This is generally an issue as the plugin is not always i...
LEPP Computer Group Printer Information and Assistance Page Printer name: LT104_XRX_N2125 Location: LEPP Trailers, Comp Area Building: Wilson Driver: Windows XP F...
12/19/2012 Today's topics: CLASSE Account Password Expiration Emails If your CLASSE account password is about to expire, you will get an email that looks like t...
Monday December 3rd, 2012. Today's topics: LEPP Windows computers Firefox update to 17.0.1ESR We will be pushing an update tonight to coincide with normal updat...
November 12th, 2012 Today's topics: LEPP Windows Firefox update During normal patches tonight, LEPP will be pushing Firefox ESR 10.0.10, Flash 11.5 and Java 7u9 ...
This page under construction http://information technology.web.cern.ch/services/fe/vidyo/howto/ http://information technology.web.cern.ch/services/fe/vidyo/howto/...
October 22nd, 2012 Today's topics: LEPP Windows Firefox update Tonight As part of our normal updates, we are planning to update Firefox to 10.0.9ESR, Java to v6u...
October 15th, 2012 Today's topics: Cornell Migration to Office 365 limits e mail attachments to 25MB During the spring semester, Cornell is planning to transfer ...
October 8, 2012 Today's topics: Home disk quotas In the near future, quotas will be enabled on the LEPP Unix home disks (/home/username). Up until January of t...
September 24, 2012 Today's topics: LNX201 upgraded to SL6 LNX201 hung on Monday, September 17 and needed to be rebooted. To avoid multiple disruptions, we proc...
Migrating from LNSNTCAD to CLASSE on Windows XP Preferred method Upgrade to Windows 7 The preferred method is to upgrade the entire OS to Windows 7 if possible...
Monday, September 17, 2012. Today's topics: Samba authentication changing to CLASSE credentials The LEPP samba server (\\samba\user etc...) will change from LNS...
September 10th, 2012 Today's topics: PC50 is READ ONLY today As warned in our previous newsletter, PC50 has been set to READ ONLY today. If you find you cannot w...
Friday, August 31, 2012 Today's topics: Firefox update on LEPP Windows computers to 10.0.7 During the night of Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning, September 4th a...
Monday, August 20, 2012 Today's topics: Scheduled network outage: Saturday, August 25 There will be a scheduled network outage of the LEPP and CHESS networks fr...
Eudora Setup Warning: PC50 will be retired soon. It is an ancient computer running Windows NT. If it dies, it will NOT be restored. Files used on Windows compute...
Saving Files to and from PC50 Warning: PC50 will be retired soon. It is an ancient computer running Windows NT. If it dies, it will NOT be restored. Files used on...
FAQ: How do I enable Symantec Intrusion Prevention Web page malware tests ANSWER: The version of Symantec Anti Virus software provided by the University includes...
Friday, July 27, 2012 Today's topics: Remote access to Windows Computers (LogMeIn) If you have been using LogMeIn to remotely access a Windows or Mac computer v...
July 23, 2012 Today's topics: LEPP Windows users Firefox Update We will be pushing an update to Firefox to take place with our normal update schedule, Monday Nig...
July 9, 2012 Today's topics: Campus migration to Microsoft's Office 365 Cornell has decided to take advantage of Microsoft's Cloud based Office 365 service (fr...
June 25, 2012 Today's topics: New Restrictions on CLEOc HyperNews Server A HyperNews vulnerability is being exploited, leading to compromises of HyperNews fora....
Monday, June 18, 2012 Today's topics: ACCFS (lnx113) to be down Tuesday morning Maintenance has been scheduled for accfs (also known as lnx113) starting at 10a...
June 11, 2012 Today's topics: Networked Filesystems LEPP provides several network accessible fileystems to our linux and unix systems using NFS. As with all ce...
May 24th, 2012 Today's topics: Windows third party software updates Traditionally LEPP has pushed updates for third party software such as Firefox, Flash, Java e...
FAQ: When I try to ssh into xxx system, the following message appears. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENT...
May 15, 2012 Today's topics: SSL Certificate Update The SSL certificates for imap.lepp.cornell.edu and smtp.lepp.cornell.edu have been updated. You may need to...
LEPP Windows User Disk (Windows Z Drive) New Z Drive (moving from \\PC50\Users to \\samba\user) We are migrating off of old NT4 infrastructure, such as PC50. To ...
May 7th, 2012 Today's topics: Windows Inventory and deployment agent upgrade We will be converting from our legacy OCSNG Agent on Windows XP x32 and Fusion Inven...
April 23, 2012 Today's topics: Grid Engine Queues During the upgrade to SL6, the queues previously known as lnx65101 lnx65111 have been renamed ilc301 ilc31...
April 17, 2012 Today's topics: Laptops at LEPP infected with Flashback Several personal Mac laptops have been infected with the recent Flashback malware. We've ...
April 2, 2012 Today's topics: Scientific Linux 6 As previously announced, LEPP is continuing the upgrade from SL5 to SL6 wherever possible. This week we will b...
March 26, 2012 Today's topics: Linux Firefox Redhat has released Firefox 10 ESR as a security update to firefox in EL5 and EL6. All LEPP Linux users should beg...
March 8, 2012 Today's topics: EDMS Maintenance On Tuesday March 13 starting at 10am, LEPP's Invenio installation will be updated to v1.0.0. During this time, al...
LEPP Computer Group Printer Information and Assistance Page Printer name: Brother color J5910 printer Location: LEPP Trailers, Elect. Shop Building: Wilson Driver...
February 20, 2012 Today's topics: Firefox Extended Support Release Mozilla is now providing an ESR (Extended Support Release) of version 10 of the Firefox Web b...
Using Xorg (or XFree86) Warning: The use of Cygwin is no longer supported at LEPP. If you need a Linux environment, use a Linux computer. The information below i...
Cygwin Install Net Warning: The use of Cygwin is no longer supported at LEPP. If you need a Linux environment, use a Linux computer. The information below is r...
X Windows for Home PCs Frequently, LEPP users want to use Exceed from their homes to run x sessions on LEPP machines. However, because the license for Exceed is ...
Cygwin Install CD Please refer to CygwinInstallNet for instructions on downloading and installing Cygwin from their website. Warning: The use of Cygwin is no ...
FAQ Can I use Exceed from my home Windows computer to run X sessions on LEPP machines? Answer Because the license for Exceed is very expensive, we encourage the ...
February 13th, 2012 Today's topics: Cornell NetID password change In the near future, about 2000 Cornellians, some at LEPP, will be receiving notices that they n...
February 6th, 2012 Today's topics: Firefox Extended Support Release Mozilla is now providing an ESR (Extended Support Release) of version 10 of the Firefox Web b...
January 30th, 2012 Today's topics: Inventor SP2 update Wed, Feb 1st, 2012 Starting at 4PM An e mail has been sent to all known Inventor suite users with more inf...
January 23rd, 2012 Today's topics: Inventor Update to SP2 Feb, 1st 2012 We will be pushing an update to Inventor to bring it to SP2 on February 1st, 2012. All In...
Windows Computers "RunAs" command This article applies to Home and personally owned computers. Windows XP and newer allow users to run certain programs as another...
January 5, 2012 Today's topics: Scientific Linux 6 As LEPP continues the migration from 64 bit SL5 to 64 bit SL6, two farm nodes (lnx301 and lnx302) are now run...
December 19, 2011 Today's topics: CLASSE computers are not backed up Please don't forget that LEPP Windows computers in the CLASSE domain are NOT being backed u...
How to View Headers (Pictorial Version) Outlook's "Message Options..." menu displays a message's header. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a keyboard shortc...
E'mail Scams: Nobody needs your personal information You will frequently receive messages which claim that your email or other sevice is changing and which ask yo...
December 12, 2011 Today's topics: Printing Transparencies If you need to print transparencies, please contact Bill Brangan, who will put them in the printer for...
Scientific Linux 5 LEPP is in the process of transitioning from 32 bit Scientific Linux 4 (SL4) to 64 bit Scientific Linux 5 (SL5). Any code built on 32 bit SL4 ...
November 21, 2011 Today's topics: Reporting Network "slowness" When reporting network slowness, please include the following information with your service reques...
November 14, 2011 Today's topics: Office Activation Warning Some users on Windows computers have received a warning from Microsoft Office that it will shut down ...
November 7, 2011 Today's topics: Outlook and Exchange problems Cornell's central Exchange email service has had many problems during the past week. Although the...
October 31st, 2011 Today's topics: Firefox versions in use at LEPP LEPP is currently running (and has standardized on) the Firefox 3.6 series, the most recent as...
October 24, 2011 Today's topics: Windows Office 2010 patch update Tuesday morning: logout Monday evening. Windows Office 2010 SP1 will be installed early Tuesda...
October 17, 2011 Today's topics: Windows Office 2010 upgrade: Monday evening Reminder: Please exit from all Windows Office applications before 4:30 PM, Monday, ...
Home Disk Failure October 13, 2011 This page contains an updated announcement that was sent to all LEPP users. If you use a desktop Linux computer and cannot ac...
FAQ: Why does my gnome login hang after I type my password? ANSWER: Are you able to login to a different desktop environment, like kde? Usually that kind of a pr...
October 10th, 2011 Today's topics: Windows Office 2010 upgrade: substantial disruption starting Monday evening, October 17 You must close all Windows Office pro...
October 3, 2011 Today's topics: Linux Scientific Linux 5.7 As announced last week, all LEPP SL5 systems have been upgraded to SL5.7. Please note that this upd...
September 26, 2011 Today's topics: Email Problems CIT is still in the process of moving email accounts from the old Exchange 2007 servers to the new Exchange 20...
September 19, 2011 Today's topics: Exchange migration started on Tuesday, September 6, 2011. CIT began migrating all mail accounts from servers running Exchang...
August 8, 2011 Today's topics: CESR Control System down starting at 9am Tuesday, August 9th. The CESR Control System will be down on Tuesday August 9th. Start...
08/01/2011 Today's topics: Mathematica 8 The default version of Mathematica on all SL5 systems is now 8.0. Version 7.0 can still be run using mathematica v 7....
July 25, 2011 Today's topics: More Phishing bogus email warning On Thursday, July 21, many people received email from a non Cornell address claiming that thei...
July 18, 2011 Today's topics: Scientific Linux 5 SL 5.6 All LEPP SL5 systems are being upgraded to SL5.6. Other than a new graphical theme called "Atom Shine,...
June 27, 2011 Today's topics: Many basic computer peripheral items in Stock Room If you need some basic computer peripheral items like flash drives, CAT5 / patc...
Administrative Privileges In general, all software and hardware installation requests must be made to the computer group through a Service Request . As the co...
June 20th, 2011 Today's topics: Updates for Windows desktops Firefox, Adobe Updates for Windows These updates are scheduled for Tuesday between 10 and 11Am on J...
June 14, 2011 Today's topics: Campus wide Network Interruptions Campus network connections will be briefly unavailable several times on Sunday, June 19th. These...
June 6, 2011 Today's topics: LEPP Solaris and Linux Compute Farms: Cooling Problems As usually happens in the spring and fall, the air conditioners in the compu...
May 23, 2011 Today's topics: LEPP network outage One of LEPP's core infrastructure switch/routers failed around 6:30 am Sunday morning. Connectivity to most sys...
May 10, 2011 Today's topics: LEPP Trailer Conference Room resource name change The LEPP Trailer Conference Room is currently known to the Exchange Calendaring S...
May 2, 2011 Today's topics: Bogus Mail Maintenance message: Don't Click That! Never click on Web links in messages from people you don't know. This (Monday) mor...
LNX120 Mail Storage Server PURPOSE LNX120 is now an INTERIM OVERFLOW mail storage IMAP server. Its purpose is to provide overflow mail storage for users who ca...
Submit Mathematica Script to Batch We will assume that your mathematica script yourmathematicascript.m is already in the area where you intend to do your work.1....
April 25th, 2011 Today's topics: REMINDER: CLASSE focussed tutorial and Q A sessions for Exchange Calendaring The LEPP Computer Group is offering CLASSE focussed...
April 18th, 2011 Today's topics: CLASSE Domain general update schedule change For general use CLASSE Domain systems, we will change the updates to be applied at ...
April 11th, 2011 Today's topics: Accelerator Subversion Server Upgrade For required functionality not available in our current server, the Accelerator group pla...
April 5th, 2011 Today's topics: Firefox, Java and Flash updates for Windows The LEPP computer group will be pushing updates to Firefox, Java and Flash beginning ...
March 28th, 2011 Today's topics: Newman Lab power outages Power will be shut off to parts of Newman Lab the first four evenings this week; shutdowns start at 6 P...
Cornell's Migration of Email to Exchange Migration completed Cornell's migration from sendmail to Exchange was completed by late summer, 2010. As of March, 2011,...
Oracle Calendar (formerly Corporate Time) This document is OBSOLETE. Use Outlook instead. Note: this document describes Oracle Canendar for LEPP and CLASSE. If yo...