Network & Systems

On Friday, February 20th LIS configured Sophos Enterprise Console to monitor all Campus Workstations Sophos status. This will give LIS the capability to keep our Network free from Viruses and Trojans. The Sophos Enterprise Console will give us a new Tool for Network Virus Protection.
On Monday, March 17 LIS included all Faculty Workstations by a Sophos batch file being run on Faculty computers at login time. This will not affect Macs at this time.

Network & Systems will be printing Red Sheets today for students admitted for the fall 2009 semester. The Red Sheet provides each student with a Norse Key that is used to access their email, take placement tests, and register for classes.

Red sheets will now be run for the Admissions Office daily until the start of the fall semester.

Academic.luther.edu (Faculty H drives) and admin1.luther.edu (Staff H drives) are both running low on disk space. LIS has put disk quotas in place on these systems to help prevent this from reoccurring. Faculty and staff who are using excessive amounts of space will be contacted by the LIS Help Desk.

Please call the LIS Help Desk if you have any questions regarding your disk quota.

Our old Sympa server http://lists.luther.edu has been replaced by a new Sympa server called http://discuss.luther.edu

All existing lists have been moved from lists to discuss and list owners have been notified that their mailing list address is changing to end in @discuss.luther.edu (currently ends in @lists.luther.edu). Until April 15 both the old and new list email addresses will work.

I have completed configuration of the network switch in Norby House to require that all computers connecting to it are registered before they are allowed to access the network.

To increase network security, our plan is to eventually have our entire network configured this way. The wireless network, all of ResNet, and most other Academic/Admin buildings are also already configured to require registration.

Also as part of this change computers in Norby House will now receive IP addresses in a different range.

This morning I’ve made a change to the configuration of our VPN Service. In the long run this change will make the service easier for all to use, but current users will need to access the service using a new URL. From now on you may access the vpn at https://vpn.luther.edu. Other than this easier to remember URL, no other changes have been made to the interface.

This service can be used to access your Luther College network shares and files from off-campus through your web browser.

See the VPN Training documentation found at http://lis.luther.edu/learn/vpn for more information.

Optivity….Our Telephone Management system was upgraded this week. The new software version 3.2 was added as our previous version 2.2 was becoming unsupported. Version 3.2 also is required if Luther decides too move forward with in-house long distance billing. Thanks to Dave H for his work on building the new server that houses Optivity.

Google has made available a Google Apps Status Dashboard If you’re having trouble with a Norse Apps service, it’s worth checking the dashboard to see if Google knows about a service interruption and is working on it.

Goolgle has announced an update to gmail in their blog Updates to attachments: multi-select and progress bars It is now possible to attach multiple files to an email message in one step.

We are experiencing some internet slowness right now. I am looking for the cause and solution to this problem.
Update 4:00PM I still need to find a more permanent solution, but I believe this problem has now been worked around.