Pipeline changes for the week of June 22, 2011.
Current Changes:
- IE9 is ready for release to the MIT Community. It will be communicated on 6/23 and available via the wsus service on 6/29
- Stellar 2.3.3 Patch will be applied on 6/25 at 7:00am – Downtime 30 minutes
- Also applying IE9 compatibility patch to Stellar on 6/25 at 7:00am – No downtime
- Wiki shibd timeout change to increase wiki timeouts – No downtime needed – 6/25
- Mobile deployments expected next week to deliver updated iPhone and Android mobile apps
- PGP – 10.1.2 Upgrade available. Windows 7 SP1 still on hold while testing of new version continues
- Identity Finder 5 – still testing
- OC11 Firewall Update – Saturday 6/25 at 10:00am – no impact anticipated
- Still need to work through testing on the W92 network on 6/24 and 6/25
- Full role out of Pharos Printing in the Athena cluster has started
- Datawarehouse end of year processing has started and will restrict access on 7/01 while validation occurs
- TSM server upgrades have started. OIS will coordinate with business owners on timeframes and impact
- InsideMIT Portal decommission 6/30
- Building new certificate server – Almost complete; Still need Freshman and iPhone changes
- Exchange 2010 mailbox moves – Starting 7/18 – No anticipated impact to user community
Ongoing Work
- FileVault is still on HOLD
- Matlab license renewals have started
- Firefox 5 was released by Mozilla however we are not recommending until testing has been completed
- Fetch v5.6 (Mac FTP Client) was released and is being tested – anticipate a July release to MIT community
- MITSIS Java 1.6 upgrades
- F5 software testing for Kerberos 4 and 5
Changes/work that is currently pending (exact date to be determined):
- UAWeb – MyMit Portal transition to OAS moved to early July
- SAPgui release moved out to end June
- McAfee for Mac patch release end June
- Oracle 11g installer release June/July (pending COEUS testing)
- Windows Service Pack 1 release on HOLD
- IE9 support announcement on HOLD but ready to go
- FireFox 4 support announcement on HOLD
- Adobe Acrobat Pro 10 release ON HOLD
- Debathena release mid July
- users being encouraged to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 (8.04 no longer supported by vendor)
- Exchange 2010 migration testing mid July
- BSI (SAP tax server) upgrade to v9 end July
- includes DB upgrade to Oracle 11g
- desupport of v8.0.x end August
- Roles database patch and upgrade to 11.2.02 (move to linux vms July/August)
- Online Grading go live August
- Electronic Transcripts go live August
- MIT KDC upgrade August
Upcoming Administrative and Academic dates to keep in mind:
- Fall Readiness (Help Desk Blackout dates) 8/15-9/15
- Registration Day 9/6