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IS&T Change Communications Report December 12, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service Offering

Tier

Change

Date

Outage

Status

Accounts

PROD

IS&T employees are encouraged to change their password to help evaluate the recent KDC upgrade

 

 

 

Undergraduate Admissions (UA)

PROD

Deployment (WARP, Stargate, etc.) - apply updates

12/6/12

 

DONE

IS&T Website

PROD

Drupal updates (no content freeze) - apply updates

12/6/12

 

DONE

Managed Server Hosting

PROD

Rekeying E40 servers to AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)

12/6/12

N

DONE

Events Calendar (events.mit.edu)

PROD

Routine maintenance: fix broken link to eligibility page

12/6/12

N

DONE

Distributed Software

PROD

Keberos for Windows world wide release (v. 4.0 or 4.0.1 - some accessibility issues still need to be addressed)

12/7/12

 

DONE

Exchange

PROD

PO server configuration changes (increase in number of objects)

12/7-12/14/12

 

SCHED

Distributed Software

PROD

Adobe Reader 11 for Mac and Windows - available for download today

12/12/12

 

SCHED

Managed Server Hosting

PROD

Rekeying OC11 servers to use AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)

12/13/12

N

SCHED

Distributed Software

PROD

PGP for Mac no longer available via download (available by special request only)

12/14/12

 

SCHED

Early Decisions

PROD

Early Decisions Go live at 12:15pm

12/15/12

N

SCHED

Distributed Software

PROD

Windows 7 64 bit available next week

week of 12/17/12

 

SCHED

Kerberos

PROD

Decommissioning of Kerberos 4.  This means that users running Athena 9.4 or earlier will no be able to login or access Zephyr.  In addition, KPOP users will be unable to utilize their email client.  For advice on new configuration with Kerberos 5, users should contact their DITR support person or helpdesk@mit.edu.  We need to follow-up with straglers.

12/21/12

 

SCHED

Wireless Infrastructure

PROD

Repair of nodes due to power outage

December

 

SCHED

Distributed Software

PROD

Virus Scan 8.8 patch 2 available for download (unified installer)

December

 

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

Updated Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) installers for Mac and Windows available for download - on hold

On hold

 

TBD

Managed Data Services (MDS)

PROD

Space Management release to pilot group

End December

 

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

Office 2008 for Mac retirement/desupport

1/2/13

 

SCHED

Distributed Software

PROD

Office 2007 for Win retirement/desupport

1/2/13

 

SCHED

Accounts

PROD

Final email notifications for January deactivations

1/9/13

 

SCHED

Online Registration

PROD

Release - Opens

1/14/13

N

SCHED

Accounts

PROD

Account deactivations

1/23/13

N

SCHED

Reporting and Forecasting Tool (RAFT)

PROD

New release of forecasting (front and back end changes)

End January

 

TBD

SAP Foundation

PROD

Installation of Netweaver 7.0.2 into landscape

Early February

 

TBD

Managed Server Hosting

PROD

DMX storage arrays replacement in OC11 and E40 (affects SAP and DW completed.

3/31/13

 

SCHED

Distributed Software

PROD

PGP for Mac retirement/desupport (users to be transitioned to FileVault 2)

March

N

TBD

Managed Data Services (MDS)

PROD

Space Management release to community

March

 

TBD

SAP Foundation

PROD

Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) tool implementation.  This tool will automate the rules being established by the Segregation of Duties (SOD) effort currently underway.  Audit access by means of Firefighter implementation will be the first to go live in IS&T

End March

 

TBD

SAP Foundation

PROD

Segregation of Duties (SOD) effort complete.  This work will establish rules regarding access and authorizations in the SAP environment

End June 2013

 

TBD

Cyrus/IMAP

PROD

Retirement

12/1/13

 

SCHED

SAP Environmental Health and Safety (EHS)

PROD

Moving applications to dedicated VMs

 

 

TBD

Drupal Cloud

PROD

Public release

 

 

TBD

Quality Center

PROD

Upgrade (pending completion of Year End Support Packs)

 

 

TBD

Open Wireless

PROD

Retirement

 

 

TBD

MITSIS

PROD

Upgrade database to Oracle 11g and smoke test applications

 

 

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

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

 

 

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

Kerberos For Android

 

 

TBD

Citrix

PROD

Migration of applications from citrix.mit.edu to citrixapps.mit.edu

 

 

TBD

Citrix

PROD

Retiring citrix.mit.edu (including Citrix Graduate Admissions application)

 

 

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

Mac OS X 10.6 desupport by IS&T ON HOLD

 

 

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

Network Identity Manager (NIM) desupport ON HOLD pending next release of KFW

 

 

TBD

PowerFaids

PROD

Windows updates

 

 

TBD

Distributed Software

PROD

Identity Finder 6.2 available for download ON HOLD (may wait for version 6.3)

 

 

TBD

Pharos Printing

TEST

Ezeep software (mobile Pharos printing)

12/31/12

 

SCHED

SAP Foundation

TEST

Installation of Netweaver 7.0.2 into landscape

End December

 

TBD

MITSIS

TEST

Database upgrade Oracle 11.2.03

Mid January

 

TBD

Distributed Software

TEST

Microsoft release of Office 2013 release project

Mid January

 

TBD

Cognos

TEST

Focus group members will have access to build reports in a shared space. (Those vetted by Data Management they will be moved to production for community consumption)

  

 

TBD

Name Connector

TEST

IS&T testing of VoIP based version of the service

 

 

TBD

Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)

TEST

TSM/VE (virtual environment)

 

 

TBD

Distributed Software

TEST

New download server

 

 

TBD

MITSIS

DEV

Database upgrade to Oracle 11.2.03

Early December

 

TBD

SAP Foundation

DEV

Installation of Netweaver 7.0.2 into landscape

End December

 

TBD

MIT SECURE

DEV

Exploring auto configuration tools for computers

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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