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IS&T Change Communications Report June 27, 2012

Service Offering

Tier

Change

Date

Outage

Time

Status

Enterprise Storage

PROD

Upgrade firmware on Network Operations OC11 Isilon array

Week of 6/25/2012

N

TBD

Software Release Team (SWRT)

Justin Fleming joins SWRT

6/25/12

DONE

SCHED

Distributed Software

PROD

FileMaker 12 release

6/26/12

N

DONE

Tether

PROD

Retirement

6/29/12

N

SCHED

Distributed Software

PROD

VMWorkstation updates (version 8.0.3)

6/29/12

N

TBD

Hardware Recommendations

PROD

8G RAM on preconfigured machines.  The default for Windows will be 64 bit.  Website updates in progress - Apple this week and Dell next week

End June

N

TBD

Drupal Cloud

PROD

Roll out of new service

End June

N

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

VMFusion updates (version 4.1.3)

6/29/12

N

TBD

Managed Servers

PROD

Open SSL patching (communications in progress)

June

N

TBD

Enterprise Storage

PROD

Fiber channel network zoning changes

June

N

TBD

Android App

PROD

C2DM (cloud device messaging) updates

June

N

TBD

SAP Building Services (Facilities)

PROD

Plant maintenance: Nuclear Reactor Lab (NRL) going live with notifications and non-injury incident reporting

June

N

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

Browsers support model changes

June

N

TBD

Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)

PROD

DITR deployment of updated desktop client

June

N

TBD

SAP Foundation

PROD

Reimplementation of Solution Manager (application monitoring)

June

N

TBD

ILab Solutions

PROD

Koch implementation of scheduling and billing system for equipment

7/1/12

N

SCHED

MIT Data Warehouse (DW)

PROD

Year end maintenance.  The following financial tables will be off line: BALANCES, BALANCES_BY_FISCAL_PERIOD, BALANCES_BY_FISCAL_PERIOD_3YRS, SUMMARY_STATEMENT_DETAIL.  Progress on work will be available online: 

http://ist.mit.edu/services/business/warehouse^{Image Added}

7/1/12

Y

Approx. 24 hours

Enterprise Storage

PROD

Retiring OC11 CX-3-80 (SAN for virtualized environment).  The data is moving over next 3 weeks

7/1/12

N

SCHED

Active Directory

PROD

Upgrades/updates

Week of 7/2/12

N

TBD

Departmental Consulting and Application Development (DCAD)

PROD

DCAD hourly rate changes for new projects (Web Application Development from $100 to $110 per hour and Project Management/Business Analysis from $100 to $110 per hour)

7/2/12

N

SCHED

Knowledge Base (Hermes)

PROD

Hermes upgrade and name change to The Knowledge Base

7/3/12

Y

SCHED

Events Calendar (events.mit.edu)

PROD

Move to dedicated servers

7/12/12

N

TBD

Certificates Renewal

PROD

Annual renewal cycle - Change certificate lifetime

7/27/12

Y

6-7 pm

SCHED

Database

PROD

Technology Licensing Office database upgrade to 11.g

July

TBD

Kerberos

PROD

For Windows (KFW)

July

N

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

Users to transition to Firefox 10 ESR (Extended Support Release)

July

N

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

TSM installer release for Mac and Windows

July

N

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

SecureCRT/FX updated license keys

July

N

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

Stretchbreak release for Mac and Windows

July

N

TBD

Wikis (MIT Wiki Service)

PROD

Archiving of old sites

July

N

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

OS X 10.8  for Mac (Mountain Lion) release (Apple will release in July)

July/August

N

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

Office 2007 retirement - no longer available on the download page

8/15/12

Quality Center

PROD

Upgrade

August

N

TBD

Mobile Device Support

PROD

iOS 6 Fall release (compatible with 3GS but not iPad 1)

Sept/Oct

N

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

Windows XP distribution ends (no longer on the software grid)

October

N

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

Office 2008 Retirement - desupport

1/2/13

N

SCHED

Distributed Software

PROD

Windows XP support retirement

8/1/13

N

SCHED

Distributed Software

PROD

Firefox 3.6x desupport/retirement (dependent on Unity upgrade)

N

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

Oracle 11g release

N

TBD

Unity

PROD

Upgrade for browser compatibility

N

TBD

Open Wireless

PROD

Retirement ON HOLD

N

TBD

MIT SECURE

PROD

Radius servers to point to Exchange Active Directory

N

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

Decommissioning older versions of SAPgui for both Mac and Windows

N

TBD

VPN

PROD

Legacy application (native client) to be retired

N

TBD

Kerberos

PROD

For Android

N

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

Mac Binaries changing

N

TBD

WebSIS/Student

DEV

Touchstone integration (production targeted for mid August)

End of June

N

TBD

MIT SECURE

DEV

Exploring  auto configuration tools for computers

Summer

N

TBD

Distributed Software

DEV

Evaluating Windows 8  developer preview (internal to IS&T only due to NDA)

Fall

N

TBD

Database

TEST

Technology Licensing Office database upgrade to 11.g

6/28/12

1 p.m.

SCHED

Events Calendar (events.mit.edu)

TEST

Move to dedicated servers

7/9/12

TBD

SAP Foundation

TEST

ERP 6.0 enhancement package 6

July

N

TBD

Name Connector

TEST

IS&T testing of VoIP based version of the service.  Production cutover TBD.

N

TBD

Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)

TEST

TSM/VE (virtual environment)

N

TBD

Distributed Software

TEST

New download server

N

TBD

Status Key:

SCHED

Scheduled routine maintenance

EMER

Emergency change - problem if not addressed

LOW

Outage or problem with low user impact

HIGH

Outage or problem with high user impact

TBD

Exact change date or time to be determined