The September issue of the GWDG News has just been published.
It contains among others the following topics:
Due to the discontinuation of CrashPlan OnPremises, the GWDG will no longer be able to offer the GWDG CrashPlan service after 16 September. This means that after September 16th it will no longer be possible to access the backups.
As [...]
Message-Id: 202208300922
Time: uesday, the 30.08.2022 - 6:50 - 8:30
Affected: Users of GWDG Cloud Server Service
Impact: Management of cloud resources not possible
For reasons still unknown, the load balancer of the GWDG Cloud Server service lost its Virtual [...]
Message-Id: 202208251611
Time: permanent, from now on
Affected: Users of the vCenter
Impact: Longterm no access to
Dear VMware customers,
unfortunately some users are experiencing trouble with the permissions on the new RDS, please excuse these issues.
If you have [...]
Message-Id: 202208261110
Time: 27.08.2022 07:00 – 15:05
Affected: SharePoint Farm
Impact: All website collections were temporarily unavailable
As announced, GWDG SharePoint Farm maintenance has been carried out and has finished successfully.
All site collections are available again without any restrictions. [...]
Message-Id: 202208261447
Time: until 16:00
Affected: JamfPro
Impact: Unavailability of the client management for macOS and iOS
Jamf Pro the client management for macOS and iOS will be temporarily
unavailable today from 14:00 to 16:00 due to important maintenance
measures [...]
Message-Id: 202208261431
Time: immeadiately
Affected: Users of ShareLaTeX/Overleaf
Impact: Code Editor problem solved
The display issue with the Code Editor has just been resolved with the help of official
support. Affected users simply need to reload their browser window.
The [...]
Message-Id: 202208261110
Time: 27.08.2022 07:00 – 18:00
Affected: SharePoint farm
Impact: All website collections will temporarily unavailable
The GWDG SharePoint farm will be under maintenance and will be not available. This will affect all Site-Collections starting with one of the [...]
Message-Id: 202208261100
Time: 2022/09/22, 5:00 p.m.
Affected: Users of the GWDG Cloud Server service
Impact: Unused public (floating) IPs are removed from the projects
Dear users of the GWDG Cloud Server service,
due to the increased demand for the GWDG [...]
Message-Id: 202208251611
Time: permanent, from now on
Affected: Users of the vCenter
Impact: Longterm no access to
Dear VMware customers,
you can and should use the new RDS (remote desktop server) vcenter.rds.gwdg.de from now
on.
The servers are web proxy [...]
Message-Id: 202208251101
Time: 25.8.2022, 5pm - 7pm
Affected: whiteboard.academiccloud.de users
Impact: Possibility of short interruptions of the service
We are performing an update of the Collaboard service. This may cause short interruptions in the use of the service. [...]
Message-Id: 202208231136
Time: since 22.08.2022
Affected: ShareLaTeX/Overleaf
Impact: display problems
This mornings maintenance was quickly completed between 7-7.15am but unfortunately did not improve the situation with regards to the display issues in the code editor.
With local support measures exhausted [...]
Message-Id: 202208221516
Time: 23.08.22 8-9 am
Affected: Users of ShareLaTex
Impact: Service unavailable for about 20 min
With an attempt to resolve the current issues with the service the service will be briefly
updated and restarted Tue morning 08-09am. The [...]
Message-Id: 202208221343
Time: known since 22.08.2022
Affected: ShareLaTex/Overleaf users
Impact: Malfunction of the code display in the code editor
For some users the code editor of their LaTeX document is not displaying the code but rather a gray area. The [...]
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Message-Id: 202208190649
Time:
Affected:
Impact:
Zoom clients below version 5.11.0 are vulnerable to faked meeting addresses on all supported operating systems (Android, iOS, Linux, macOS and Windows), which allow the system to be compromised.
MacOS requires at least version [...]
Message-Id: 202208181855
Time: Maintenance window Thursday, 18.08.2022, 18:00 – 19:00
Affected: Users of metrics.gwdg.de
Impact: Web-UI (Grafana) of metrics.gwdg.de not accessible
The upgrade was successfully completed. [...]
Message-Id: 202208181009
Time: 18.08.2022, 5 p.m. until approx. 5:30 p.m.
Affected: Rocket.Chat and ShareLaTeX
Impact: services not available
The services RocketChat and ShareLaTeX receive a small update today starting at 5 pm. The services will be unavailable for about 15-30 [...]
Message-Id: 202208150851
Time: Thursday 18.Aug.2022, 7-8 am
Affected: User of StudIp and ILIAS
Impact: Service available
Maintenance work for the e-learning systems StudIP and ILIAS was successfully completed as planned, at around 8 a.m. on Thursday, August 18, 2022. [...]
Message-Id: 202208171825
Time: since 16.08.2022
Affected: Zoom users in the web view
Impact: older meetings are not displayed
There appears to be a more widespread issue with Zoom in the web view. There, older meetings that [...]