There was an electrical fault in Smith Lab that has taken out power to the building- it houses some Chemistry Depatment servers.
* power is expected to be out thorought the weekend.
* we are moving one critical service, DNS, to Newman & Wolfrom lab. Beyond the current DNS outage there should be little impact on end user experience this weekend. Contact support if you find otherwise and we will assist.
Meetings are normally scheduled for the 2nd Thursday of each month @ 11am in MP 2015.
The first meeting has been pushed back to June, 23rd @ 11am in MP2015 to accommodate the ACS meeting (CERMACS) and The Spectroscopy Symposium.
Many research groups have in the past had a point person or local admin doing some of the group’s computer administration, for example Windows software installations. Computer Support is here to help, so to have a better view of user needs we are resurecting the ChemRAT (“Chemistry Research Administrator Team”) user group. I have invited members of research teams and certain staff to be part of this group. (If you feel I have missed someone let me know)
Oftentimes, people only get to see IT support when there are problems. We’d like to be proactive, share our plans with you to avoid surprises, and receive feedback about what works and what doesn’t. We also hope that ChemRAT members will have ideas about new and different services we can provide for research groups and staff. Finally, this is a great chance to get to know one another better.
This will be a recurring event- 2nd Thursday of each month @ 11am in MP 2015. I’ll send out a reminder and it will be posted on the Computer Support Blog: http://osuchemistry.info/
Mike is out sick today (again, as I was out yesterday as well).
Due to a visit from the NSF site visit team on Friday, June 6th, 2008 access to the computer lab in 2105 Newman & Wolfrom Lab (2105NW) will be restricted.
Alternative options for computing on 06/06/08: Staff, faculty and grad students all have access to McPherson 0008 (MP0008)
Again- no users will be granted access to 2105NW on 06/06/08.