UCIT Staff will be performing security updates on all UCIT-managed servers on Wednesday, November 5th between 9 and 11pm.  Please refer to the list below for details on affected services.  Additionally, staff will be performing additional UPS testing on Thursday, November 6th between 6:30 and 7:30am.  During these maintenance periods there may be intermittent outages of all servers and their hosted services.  Feel free to contact a UCIT staff member should you have any questions or concerns. 

Microsoft release a number of critical updates yeasterday (10-23-2008).This is an off cycle release for Microsoft, indicating the seriousness of the updates.

ITS will begin updating desktops this morning (10-24-2008).

I will be updating our Windows 2003 servers immediately (Between 6am and 6:30am on 10-24-2008).

Services impacted during the server updates:

Equitrac print tracking
RecTrac
SUAR IT MSSQL Server
RoomViewer
http://studentactivities.uncc.edu

ITS will be installing the October MS Office Security Updates during login for campus beginning Wednesday, October 22nd. The install time is approximately 5 minutes. The install icon (Oct 08 MS Office 2003 or Updt MS Office 2007 Oct 08) displays on NAL in the My-Campus > Updates-Installs > Microsoft Folder should you wish to install early.  This install includes the critical security update KB955470 for Excel and Junk Email Filter KB957257.

XP-SP3-IE-7-CumulativePatch-10-08 or XP-SP3-IE-6-CumulativePatch-10-08 which installs the following update:

KB956390 - MS08-058

XP-SP3-Security-Patch-10-08 which installs the following updates:

KB954211 - MS08-061

KB957095 - MS08-063

KB956841 - MS08-064

KB956803 - MS08-066

Please contact a UCIT staff member should you have any questions.