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News and Announcements

February 2, 2016

School computing services unavailable February 6 and 7, 2016
All School network servers are located in the Green Earth Sciences Building. Electrical power to this building will be interrupted for several hours at a time on Saturday, February 6 and Sunday, February 7, 2016. All School servers will be shut down and unavailable staring at about 8:30 am on February 6. They will not be restarted until at least 9:00 am on February 7, after stable power is restored to the building.

September 15, 2015

Mitchell A59 G.R.I.D. lab closed for upgrades Oct. 5, 2015 - disks to be erased
The Mitchell A59 G.R.I.D. computer lab is maintained for individual research and creation of presentations such as posters. The lab will be closed on October 5 to do a major upgrade of the operating systems and applications on the dual-boot iMac computers. This will fix the current bug where no one can login to the Mac OS X operating system on these computers. The single computer "Mauro" was removed from the lab on September 15 to build the new system image. It will be returned on October 5 when the other computers are upgraded. All user files created on the local computer disks will be erased!

July 10, 2015

Stanford email and calendar migrates to Office365 on July 20, 2015
Stanford is moving from its in-house Zimbra email and calendar system to the cloud based Microsoft Office 365 system. Stanford Earth email accounts migrate on Monday, July 20, 2015! You may need to make a configuration change on Monday morning. See the full news item for details.

May 27, 2015

Encryption deadline May 31, 2015 - what happens next?
Find out whether your computing devices comply with Stanford's security requirements at the new MyDevices website. Take action to make your devices compliant or network access will be cut off sometime in the summer.

February 4, 2015

Free computer backup service for Stanford Earth graduate students and post-docs
Recognizing that backups of computer data files are an essential part of protecting Stanford's teaching and research, the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences has purchased access to the central University IT cloud-based CrashPlan PROe backup service for the computers of all graduate students and post-docs in the School.

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