The lecture capture system (capturED) that has been in place throughout the University for a number of years is now no longer supported by IS. As a result of the efforts of AHSS (in particular, the Business School), CSE has found an alternative (Panopto) which has been piloted and is now installed in the majority […]

The “IPv6 investigation” project has made good progress since my previous post in January.  We have had global connectivity since February, and have been testing on a variety of subnets since then, including all of our “server” subnets, and most recently the “Appleton Tower” (including Forrest Hill and Wilkie) managed DICE desktop subnet. We have […]

Git is a version control system which has become very popular within Informatics. In fact it has become so popular that we are now offering no less that three different Git related services within the School! At this point, if you are familiar with Git, you may be wondering why we bother since it is […]

As input to a review which Information Services are conducting into EdLAN, the network which ties the University together, I have written a document which describes the Informatics network and the various “requirements” that guide its design and management. Please feel free to read it!  I hope you don’t find the style too offputting; it […]

IPv6 update… Since my previous post announcing the start of the IPv6 investigation project, good progress has been made: IPv6 support has been tested on the variety of network switches that we run.  As expected, it’s generally good on our newer models, but unreliable or non-existent on our older models.  Our ongoing rolling replacement of […]

As you were reading Johanna’s email last month on the encryption of personal computing devices, you may have noticed that this advice is but one part of a College of Science and Engineering action plan on data security (this plan was included in Johanna’s message). There are several actions which Schools are required to perform […]

Of interest to users of the Informatics OpenVPN service: Please note that – as announced via email to the sys-announce list – an updated set of configuration files for our OpenVPN service was put in place in late July 2015. The old configurations will be turned off on Monday 2nd November, 2015 – so, if […]

The web-page hosting services homepages.inf and groups.inf have been complemented by a new service, sweb.inf, which allows users to publish AFS-based web pages that have a greater degree of protection than the mechanism currently employed on existing services. The new server, sweb.inf, uses AFS space that is accessible from anywhere (as normal) and is editable […]

A number of staff have already moved to using the latest version of our operating system – SL7 – so we have now started to upgrade the remaining DICE desktops. If they haven’t done so already, support will contact you individually to arrange a suitable date and time. We aim to have all DICE desktops […]

One of the consequences of the move from SL6 to SL7 is that we have switched from using the AMD automounter (which isn’t available on SL7) to Autofs. In making this switch, we have taken the opportunity to clear out many old and broken automounts, particularly within /group. We have also removed the /legacy automount […]