This past weekend the 3rd floor telecommunications closets in Weil Hall were migrated to wallplate. We are seeing residual issues with the migration where workstations are not successfully obtaining network addresses and, consequently, not able to do anything on the network (in some cases not even able to log in). If you, or a colleague, have any of these issues please let us know. Network Engineers from UFIT have already been contacted and are already working on the issue. The lead tech is on his way to Weil Hall now.
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Move of ISE Shared Data Drive (S:\) Tonight!
In January MIS sent an email with subject ‘Required Workstation Changes Incoming for ISE’. This email described a migration plan for ISE data to new storage. Our initial plan was to address all personal home directories before migrating the shared data drive (S:\). However, due to some recent communication with Enterprise Infrastructure & Operations (EI&O) we are accelerating our move of the shared data drive (S:\). Due to the possibility of failure and data loss in the old location we are no longer waiting and will be moving the S:\ drive tonight.
For the most part this will be a transparent change. Beginning at about 5:15PM tonight we will remove access to the S:\ drive and begin the data migration (copying of the data and any remaining changes should take between 3-6 hours). Tomorrow morning, when you login, the drive mapping should be updated by our policies and direct you to the new location. In odd instances this does not happen automatically and it will require you to manually disconnect your S:\ drive. Remember, you do have to log out and in for this to occur.
Disconnecting your S:\ drive is rather simple. To disconnect, right-click on the S:\ drive within Windows Explorer and choose ‘Disconnect’ from the resulting context menu (as shown in the picture below). Even without disconnecting, policies we have in place should update your mapped drive.
Rest assure, any remaining data at the old location will also be backed up to offline storage tomorrow in case there are any issues before we are able to migrate all user home directories/folders. If you are among the users that still have a personal home directory in the old location you would have received an email from Mike (copied below). We would appreciate it if you can work with us as soon as possible.
Thank you.
-MIS
PS: For those not using a Microsoft Windows workstation that does not receive our policies. The network drive is changing as below:
OLD LOCATION: \\cns-ise-fs01.ad.ufl.edu\data\
NEW LOCATION (FULL PATH): \\osg-prod.cns-fs04.osg.ufl.edu\ise\DATA
NEW LOCATION (DFS PATH): \\ad.ufl.edu\ise\DATA
UF Exchange Migration
On Wednesday, February 25th UFIT will be performing maintenance on College of Engineering user mailboxes. Mailboxes will be migrated to the new Exchange 2013 infrastructure. For the most part this change should be transparent to you (you will notice that your Outlook Web Access (OWA) client has a new look).
We have noticed connection problems after the migration with some ActiveSync (smartphones and tablets) and Outlook Anywhere (off-campus installs of Outlook) connections. If you have problems connecting to your mailbox sometime on or after Wednesday afternoon this may be the issue. To correct, simply delete your account settings and reconnect to Exchange. You can always contact MIS to assist you in this process.
If you have questions or comments please email mis@eng.ufl.edu.
PGP Certificate Errors
For those of you that use a PGP encrypted laptop you may have been seeing errors after last weekend. The security certificate on the PGP server expired and was replaced. For an unknown reason it is not recognized as valid. As a result, users are reporting seeing a certificate expired error message after login with options to “View Certificate,” “Always Allow for This Site”, “Allow”, and “Deny” as seen in the below screenshot. You will want to select “Always Allow for This Site”.
At this time it is unknown how long this may persist. UFIT is attempting to figure out why the PGP console considers the certificate invalid and will implement a fix when one is discovered. For now, simply clicking “Always Allow for This Site” will prevent the alert from appearing again. This will have to be done on each device you use that is PGP encrypted.
If you have questions or comments please email mis@eng.ufl.edu.
DNS Server Changes
Engineering Administration has completed our transition to UFIT Infoblox servers for DNS and DHCP. Any forward/reverse DNS zones and any scopes/superscopes for DHCP have been migrated. We will be doing some analysis of our name servers to determine if / how they are still used and announce a more formal end-of-life date for them that is appropriate to the amount of use they still receive.
For the most part we have been encouraging users NOT to use our name servers in their DHCP scope options or in other configurations for name servers. If you have been using 128.227.116.4 or 128.227.116.5 please discontinue use. Servers that you should be using include:
Migration of K:\ Drive to New Server
Some offices within Engineering Administration already know that we are in the process of migrating our network drives to a new server. We will be migrating portions of the K:\ drive (APPS and EVERYONE folder) tonight, May 28th, and updating the drive mapping to the new server.
This maintenance will start at approximately 5:15PM be done by approximately 6:00PM. Tomorrow morning when you login the drive mapping should be updated by our policies and direct you to the new location. In rare instances this does not happen automatically and require you to manually disconnect your K:\ drive. Remember, you do have to log out and in for this to happen.
Disconnecting your K:\ drive is rather simple. To disconnect, right-click on the K:\ drive within Windows Explorer and choose ‘Disconnect’ from the resulting context menu (as shown in the picture below). Even without disconnecting policies should update your mapped drive.
For the majority of Engineering Administration this will be a transparent change (you won’t even notice it) in preparation for the migration of the remaining office folders (I:\ drives). However, individuals that access office folders through the K:\ drive will likely lose this ability until the remaining office folders (I:\ drives) are migrated.
The K:\ drive is being remapped from \\eg-adm-fs-bert.ad.ufl.edu\data\ to \\ad.ufl.edu\eg-adm\data\. If you need access to the old location you should be able to click the link above. If this is something you will need regularly prior to the completion of our migration we can help you map a drive to the old location.
If you have questions please let me know.
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