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Posts by IRIS at EECS, UC Berkeley

Investigating Windows mount issue with new fileserver We have reports of problems with CIFS mounts of home directories and project shares from the new NetApp fileserver. CIFS is typically used by Windows or mobile clients. Staff are investigating and will report here as we learn more. NFS mounts (typically unix/linux) are working as expected.

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April IRIS Server Patching Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, April 14th, 2026. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs, (for access to the network and roster databases) will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus and themis may also be […]

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Cory Hall partial power outage, Thursday, April 16, 2026 Campus Facilities Services is scheduled to perform an urgent repair, replacing the main circuit breaker serving Cory Hall’s 188 Lab and 1st floor Mezzanine. An email from Logan Baldini, our Director of Facilities and Capital Projects, already went out on April 8 to Cory Hall occupants. Work will take place Thursday, April 16, 8:15pm — […]

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NetApp Fileserver Migration, Saturday April 18, 2026 We are scheduling a NetApp migration to new hardware, from 8am to Noon on Saturday, April 18, 2026. All Home directories and Project shares (CIFS/SMB and NFS) will experience disconnection during the migration that may cause data loss on active, open files.  Please close your open files and save them before Friday morning. Services (e.g. […]

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March IRIS Server Patching Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, March 10th, 2026. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. PRINT, WINTERM, and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, March 11th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates. Linux […]

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EECS Border Firewall Changes, Mon. March 23 On Monday, March 23rd, we will be adding some new ports to the list of ports that are blocked by the EECS border firewall. For detailed information about the changes, please see our EECS Firewall Ports page (this page requires login). The list of ports that we will add to the block list is at […]

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February IRIS Server Patching Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, February 10th, 2026. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. PRINT, WINTERM, and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, February 11th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates. Linux […]

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January IRIS Server Patching Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, January 13th, 2026. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, January 14th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates. Linux […]

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Wireless Networks Offline, Monday 1/5 As of about 11:51 AM: wireless networks are offline due to a power issue in one of the campus network core sites. Wired networks are unaffected and continue to operate normally. We will update again when we have more information about the status of the campus network core. Please contact us at help@eecs.berkeley.edu if you […]

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IT Support During Winter 2025 Energy Curtailment Due to the Winter Holiday, Energy Curtailment, and New Year’s Holidays, the Berkeley campus is officially closed for the period Wednesday, December 24 to Thursday, January 1, reopening on Friday, January 2, 2026. Additionally, much of campus is on reduced support for December 22-23, January 2, and the week of January 5-9. All departmental computing […]

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Corrected exports for EECS NetApp file server A recent report of a discrepancy in our file server NFS exports helped us to discover an error in our NFS export policies. The error would allow shares with the default NFS export setting to be mounted on some systems within EECS networks that they were not intended to be exported to. We have corrected […]

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December IRIS Server Patching Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, December 9th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, December 10th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates. Linux […]

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NetApp Fileserver Maintenance, Friday November 28, 2025 We are scheduling a NetApp ONTAP upgrade, to apply a necessary update to our NetApp fileservers, from 8am to 12pm on Friday, November 28, 2025. All Home directories and Project shares (CIFS/SMB and NFS) may experience disconnection during the update that may cause data loss on active, open files.  Please close your open files and […]

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November IRIS Server Patching Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, November 11th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, November 12th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates. Linux […]

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Soda Hall Electrical Shutdown and BWRC Network Outage, 11/5 7PM Our Facilities crew has received the new circuit breaker to be installed on the first floor of Soda (see previous IRIS News items for September 18 and September 8), and has scheduled the installation for the evening of Wednesday, November 5. As announced to Soda Hall occupants by the building manager via email, power to […]

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Updated winterm.eecs now available An updated winterm.eecs, running Windows Server 2025, is now available as a Windows Remote Desktop Server. As soon as the new DNS records propagate, your connection to winterm.eecs will find this updated OS with updated software versions. Access and software is much like the previous winterm.eecs, though with a desktop experience that’s similar to Windows […]

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October IRIS Server Patching Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, October 14th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, October 15th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates. Linux […]

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winterm.eecs Upgrade, Friday Oct 10 The Windows Remote Desktop server winterm.eecs will be taken offline at about 10am Friday, October 10, 2025, so that we may perform an in-place upgrade to a newer version of Windows Server. This upgrade may take a few hours; we expect that winterm.eecs will be usable again by mid-afternoon.

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Soda 2F Network Interruption, 9/18 10:41 AM Networks on the second floor of Soda Hall were unavailable for approximately 5-10 minutes today beginning at 10:41 AM. This occurred due to a switch crash during troubleshooting a memory leak. The network is now stable, but the memory leak issue still exists and requires further network disruption to resolve. We will be attempting to […]

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Soda Hall Electrical Shutdown and BWRC Network Outage, 9/18 7PM Following up on the previous scheduled power outage, the electricians still need to try addressing the failed circuit breaker on the first floor of Soda, since first floor lights and Soda Hall main supply and exhaust fans remain off, and parts of the building are becoming unbearably hot due to lack of airflow. Similarly to […]

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Temporary loss of DHCP network support for some desktops, Sep 13 Late Saturday, September 13, an issue arose with our automatic DHCP support of registered desktop machines (wired network support of desktops/workstations without fixed IP addresses). This appears to have affected devices with hostnames beginning with letters r through z, which have network registrations older than one year. Those devices would have lost their DHCP lease, […]

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September IRIS Server Patching Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, September 9th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, September 10th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates. Linux […]

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Soda Hall Electrical Shutdown and BWRC Network Outage, 9/4 6PM We have been informed by facilities of the need for an emergency shutdown of all Soda Hall electrical systems, TONIGHT (Thursday), September 4th, at 6PM. We do not have a clear idea of the duration, but 1-2 hours appears to be a reasonable estimate. Soda Hall will be completely without power beginning at 6PM. Please […]

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Network Instability, 8/31 9PM – 9/1 2AM Portions of the EECS and campus networks experienced instability last night between 9PM and 2AM due to DDoS-like traffic directed at a system on the EECS network. This ended without intervention from network staff; we are investigating and remaining on standby in case this reoccurs. Please contact us at help@eecs.berkeley.edu if you have any questions […]

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Jacobs Hall Network Maintenance, Tue. 8/12 10PM – Wed. 8/13 7:30AM We will be performing Jacobs Hall network maintenance overnight from Tuesday, August 12th at 10PM to Wednesday, August 13th at 7:30AM. This maintenance is to replace the existing end-of-life router and switches with newer campus standard devices. All wired and wireless networks in Jacobs Hall will be unavailable between 10PM Tuesday night and 7:30AM Wednesday […]

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August IRIS Server Patching Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, August 12th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, August 13th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates. Linux servers […]

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Jacobs Hall Network Maintenance, Tues. Aug. 5 6AM At 6AM on Tuesday, August 5th, we will be migrating the first set of Jacobs Hall subnet gateways to new router hardware. This is being done because the current hardware is end-of-life, and also as part of a project to refresh Jacobs Hall networks to the current campus standard. The following networks will be affected:– […]

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July IRIS Server Patching Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, July 8th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, July 9th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates. Linux servers […]

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Partial EECS Network Outage, 6/11 7:15AM We had a brief partial outage to EECS networks this morning between 7:15-7:20 due to an unplanned device reboot during a troubleshooting procedure. All networks should be back online at this time. Please contact us at help@eecs.berkeley.edu if you notice any issues.

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June IRIS Server Patching Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, June 10th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, June 11th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates. Linux servers […]

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