Tuesday, March 31, 2009

NBME Plugin Software Deployed to SPH Classroom C

Browser plugin for IE to support National Board of Medical Examiners board exams was deployed to SPH Classroom C to support an American Board of Dermatology mock exam. The installation and related browser settings were deployed with the ccs-'08-'09-ABD_ITE_2009-Software GPO.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

 

Monday, March 30, 2009

Reboot at Logout Script Deployed to Sites Vista Systems

A new logout script to reboot Sites Vista systems at user logout has been deployed to all Sites Vista systems. The logout script will restart any system that has not been restarted in the past 24 hours.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

 

Friday, March 20, 2009

SAS 9.1.3 Removed from Sites Vista PC's

SAS 9.1.3 has been removed from Sites Vista PC’s. The software has been replaced by SAS 9.2.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

 

Stata 10.0 Removed from Sites Vista PC's

Stata 10.0 has been removed from Sites Vista PC’s. Earlier this term, a newer version, Stata 10.1 was deployed.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

 

New Reboot Script Deployed to Sites Vista PC's

A new logout script was deployed to Sites Vista PC’s in the University Union. The logout script will restart systems that haven’t been restarted during the past 24 hours. The script will also cause a reboot of systems that on which a special reboot flag has been set.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

 

Matlab 2008a Configuration Change For Sites Vista PC's

A change to Matlab 2008a was implemented on Sites Vista PC’s. The change deletes shared Matlab user preferences at logon. The change is intended to correct a problem where Matlab settings from one user’s Matlab session can carry over to subsequent Matlab users’ sessions.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

 

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

March 2009 Windows Updates deployed

Below are all of the updates that were deployed this month.

Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB961063)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems
(KB961063)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB961063)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB961064)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems
(KB961064)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB961064)
Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB962871)
Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB962870)
Security Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB960225)
Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB956828)
Security Update for Windows Vista (KB960225)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB960225)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems
(KB960225)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB960225)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB960225)
Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter for x64-based Systems [March
2009] (KB905866)
Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter [March 2009] (KB905866)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems
(KB938127)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB938464)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems
(KB938464)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 for x64 Edition (KB938464)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB938464)
Security Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB958690)
Security Update for Windows Vista (KB958690)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB958690)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems
(KB958690)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB958690)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB958690)
Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB967715)
Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems (KB967715)
Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB967715)
Update for Windows XP (KB967715)
Update for Windows XP (KB959772)
Update for Windows Vista (KB959772)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB960082)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB960082)
Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB961118)
Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB961118)
Update for Windows XP (KB961118)
Update for Root Certificates
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
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update (KB959209) x64
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update (KB959209) x86

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Stata 10.1 Updated on Sites Vista Systems

Stata 10.1 was updated with new ADO content. Also, a problem with network license metering was corrected. This change affects all Sites Vista systems.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

 

WinBUGS License Update

The WinBugs 14 application on Sites Vista systems was updated to fix an issue with an expired license code.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

 

ArcGIS Environment Variable Added

An environment variable called ARCTMPDIR has been added to our systems
to set the user's "scratch space" for ArcGIS component Grid to the
user's writable temp space.

matt r
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Matthew R. Ranville
University of Michigan
LS&A class of '95
Campus Computing Sites, Windows Team
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Monday, March 9, 2009

Matlab change

Shortcuts for Matlab 2007 have been removed from Sites PC's as part of a
Start Menu clean up. The old shortcuts would launch and incorrect,
cached version of the app on some machines, connecting to an obsolete
license server, and the shortcuts would fail on other machines.

The current version of Matlab 2008 is available on Sites machines.
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Matthew R. Ranville
University of Michigan
LS&A class of '95
Campus Computing Sites, Windows Team
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Sunday, March 8, 2009

Firewall Exception Added for Maple 12 Calculator

A firewall exception was added for the Maple 12 Calculator (Q:\maple_12\jre\bin\java.exe). This change affects all Vista Lab Loadset systems.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

Friday, March 6, 2009

Stata 10.1 Deployed

State 10.1 was deployed to Sites Vista systems via SoftGrid. The shortcut for the application is in the Math & Statistics program group.

 

Note: This change occurred on 3/5/2009.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

 

Mathematica 5.2 Courseware Deployed

Mathematica 5.2 including the WebMathematica feature was deployed via SoftGrid to Sites Vista systems. The shortcuts for the application are in the Physics and College of Engineering courseware program groups.

 

Note: This change occurred on 3/4/2009.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

 

WMI Cleanup Scheduled Task Disabled

A scheduled task to rebuild the WMI repository and refresh Group Policy Settings was removed from Sites Vista Systems.

 

Note: that this change occurred on 3/3/2009.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

 

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

WinHlp32 deployed for Sites Vista machines

I have deployed a GPO to install WinHlp32 for Vista. This should provide
backward compatibility for WinHlp32 help files. WinHlp32 had been
deprecated in Vista by MS.

matt r
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Matthew R. Ranville
University of Michigan
LS&A class of '95
Campus Computing Sites, Windows Team
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