Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Sudaan 10 license update

A Sudaan 10 license update will deploy tonight to Virtual Sites Stats
machines. This license update should be good through Dec. 26 of this year.
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Matthew R. Ranville
University of Michigan
LS&A class of '95
Campus Computing Sites, Windows Team
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Change to Reload process

* Winter '09 Vista Image is now available when you choose the
reload option named "Vista", which is the default option.

Monday, February 16, 2009

AMOS 16 Deployed to Sites Vista PC's

AMOS 16 has been deployed to Sites Vista systems via SoftGrid. The application shortcuts are in Math & Statistics\AMOS 16.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

 

Friday, February 13, 2009

Vista Firewall Exceptions for Remote Administration

A change to the scope for the following Firewall Exception Groups was made to permit the CCS server in the Med Zone to remotely manage Vista lab systems:

 

·         File and Printer Sharing

·         Performance Logs and Alerts

·         Remote Administration

·         Remote Desktop

·         Remote Event Log Management

·         Remote Schedule Tasks Management

·         Remote Service Management

·         Remote Volume Management

·         SoftGrid SFTLIST

·         Windows Firewall Remote Management

·         Windows Management Instrumentation

·         Windows Remote Management

 

These changes were made to the ccs-'08-'09-vista-settings GPO.

 

 

February '09 WSUS updates deployed

The following updates have been approved for deployment on our production
WSUS server.

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB959634)
Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB959614)
Security Update for Microsoft Visio 2002 (KB955654)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Visio 2003 (KB955655)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Visio 2007 (KB957831)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 for
x64-based Systems (KB960089)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 (KB960089)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB960082)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB960082)
Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter for x64-based Systems [February
2009] (KB905866)
Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter [February 2009] (KB905866)
Cumulative Update for Media Center TVPack for Windows Vista (KB958653)
Cumulative Update for Media Center TVPack for Windows Vista for x64-based
Systems (KB958653)
Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista (KB960544)
Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems
(KB960544)
Update Rollup for ActiveX Killbits for Windows Vista (KB960715)
Update Rollup for ActiveX Killbits for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems
(KB960715)
Update Rollup for ActiveX Killbits for Windows Server 2003 for
Itanium-based Systems (KB960715)
Update Rollup for ActiveX Killbits for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
(KB960715)
Update Rollup for ActiveX Killbits for Windows XP (KB960715)
Update Rollup for ActiveX Killbits for Windows Server 2003 (KB960715)
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Vista x64
Edition(KB961260)
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Server 2003
for Itanium-based Systems (KB961260)
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Vista
(KB961260)
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Server 2003
x64 Edition (KB961260)
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP
(KB961260)
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Server 2003
(KB961260)
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update (KB959209) x64
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update (KB959209) x86
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Family
Update (KB951847) x64
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Family
Update (KB951847) x86

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Simul8 Software Deployed to School of Public Health Classroom C

Simul8 Software was deployed Sites Vista PC’s in the School of Public Health Classroom C. The software is deployed via the ccs-'08-'09-Simul8_Software GPO.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

 

FourWinds Content Manager Software Deployed to School of Social Work Classroom

FourWinds Content Manager software was deployed to PC’s in the School of Social Work Classroom. The software is for a training session on digital signage management.

 

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

 

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Firewall Exception Added for WinSCP

A firewall exception for WinSCP was added to the firewall configuration on all Sites Vista lab systems.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

 

 

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

VBA Support Added to ArcGIS on Sites Vista PC's

Visual Basic for Applications components were installed on Sites Vista PC’s. The VBA components are required for some features of ArcGIS 9.3. The install of the VBA components was added to the ArcGIS install script in the ccs-’08-’09-ArcGIS-9.3-SP1 GPO.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

 

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Broken SimBio Shortcut Fixed

New shortcut settings were deployed to Sites Vista systems that have SimBio Virtual Labs installed. This was to fix an issue with a broken shortcut.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

 

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Mac Updates 2009-02-04

We’ve installed the iWork ‘08 Compatibility Update recently released by Apple. This has the following effects:
  • Keynote is now at version 4.0.4
  • Numbers is now at version 1.0.3.
  • Pages is now at version 3.0.3.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Mac Updates 2009-02-03

We’ve installed two Apple updates: the iDVD 7.0.3 update and the iLife Media Browser Update 2.0

Script to Clean VirusScan Quarantine Directory Deployed

A script to clear out the VirusScan quarantine directory was deployed to all Sites Vista lab systems. The script runs at startup and deletes all files in the quarantine directory that are more than 72 hours old.

 

Terry Miller

Sites PC Team