Say Hello to UCI-WiFi!
OIT announced the launch of their Campus Wi-Fi network on May 19th, 2025.
Hans Wunsch
Summer Maintenance 2025
Upcoming scheduled maintenance for ICS Computing Data Center hosts is detailed in the following sheet: Summer Maintenance 2025 Summary: Maintenance tasks on several hosts will be conducted 6/16/2025 through 6/20/2025 between 0700 and 1500. Please send questions to helpdesk@ics.uci.edu.
Safeguarding Faculty and Staff From Social Engineering
The Office of Information Technology is committed to safeguarding your credentials, your privacy, and your paycheck. In the span of a week, two faculty were impersonated by malicious actors using stolen personal information to trick the Help Desk into adding a rogue device to their respective DUO accounts. In turn, this enabled the criminals to …
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ZotDefend Security Package Available
Dear UCI faculty and staff, As announced in March, all computing devices must have the ZotDefend Security Package installed by May 19, 2025 in order to access protected areas of our campus network such as KFS, Docusign, FacNet, and some department servers. This initiative is part of a mandate for all UC campuses to protect the University’s sensitive information and mitigate …
Building WIFI Router Upgrade, May 22nd 0600-0800 (updated)
Anny Zemanova would like to remind you of scheduled router upgrade in buildings 302 Information & Computer Science ICS, 304 Information & Computer Science II ICS2, and 314 Donald Bren Hall DBHtomorrow, Thursday, May 22, 6-8 AM. Maintenance will affect all wireless traffic in the buildings listed below.
ZotDefend Deadline Approaching
This is an important reminder regarding the mandatory installation of the ZotDefend Security Package on all university owned computing devices. As we approach the deadline, we want to ensure that all ICS faculty members are prepared and compliant. Key Points: Deadline: May 15, 2025 Requirement: All university computing devices must have the ZotDefend Security Package …
New Docker Licensing Requirements
Henry Jenkins @ OIT recently sent out the following message about changes regarding Docker licensing policies. Docker has transitioned to a paid licensing model for several of its products. This change may impact some of the tools and workflows you or your teams use. Products Affected by the New Licensing Model: Resources: Feel free to …
Jupyterhub @ ICS
Try it out at https://hub.ics.uci.edu This past summer ICS Computing Support did some great work with Kubernetes with the help of one of our new student sysadmins. As a result of that effort we have put out Jupyterhub for instruction. JupyterHub is the best way to serve Jupyter notebook for multiple users. It can be used in a …
Fall Announcements and Maintenance Schedule
Computing Support has started pasting fall announcements and maintenance schedules on our Support Wiki (ICS account login required). Look for our new Jupyterhub, campus sponsored lastpass licensing, a December 9th power event in the ICS data center as well as an update to the Netapp.
Java: Changes to Oracle’s Licensing
Oracle is making some big licensing changes on Java. They published a good summary here: Oracle JDK Releases for Java 11 and Later Oracle is providing a roadmap for their Java SE Support that shows January 2019 as the end of public updates for commercial users. Beginning in January, ICS will be only be installing …