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May 5th – 9th, 2025 – Aeolus Power Outage

Additional information about the power outage can be found here. Given that this power outage will be more work for us than usual, and also having less staff on site that week than usual, the Aeolus maintenance period will be longer than the last outage, unfortunately. Timeline: 5/4 @ 2100: job hold begins5/5 @ 1200: […]

Categories: Aeolus, Announcements

ssh1.eecs.wsu.edu Shutdown Notification – May 8th, 2025

ssh1.eecs.wsu.edu will no longer be available after May 8th, 2025. ssh1.eecs is running CentOS 6 operating system, which reached end-of-life on November 30, 2020. It is no longer receiving OS updates, and is a network security risk. To ensure the continued security of our systems, we have implemented replacement resources: * Machines listed with GUI access […]

Categories: Announcements

VCEA IT Critical Maintenance – VCEA Server Room – November 25, 2024

Maintenance Info POC: VCEA Systems Team (Kate Konen) What: EME106 Power Outage When: Affected resources: All VCEA computer resources, including internet access Affected users: All VCEA Users Notes: N/A Notification procedures: A notification will be sent as a response to this email when maintenance is complete, or if there are issues/complications. A notification will be […]

Categories: Networking, Servers

EECS “SIG” Servers End-Of-Life Announcement

This announcement is to inform you that the existing publicly available SSH servers (sig1 through sig4) will be moving to “on-campus equivalent network” availability (this includes WSU VPN, WSU Wireless, RESNet, and wired connections) at the end of the day on July 31st, 2024.  This is because the operating system they run is now End-Of-Life (EOL), […]

Categories: Announcements

VCEA IT Maintenance – connect.vcea.wsu.edu – July 5th, 2024

On Friday, July 5th, 2024, we’re going to update connect.vcea.wsu.edu to the latest version of Apache Guacamole, as well as perform backend updates to the container service. There will be some downtime while we update the services. See below for maintenance info. Maintenance Info POC: VCEA Systems Team (Heidi) What: connect.vcea.wsu.edu planned updates and maintenance When: […]

Categories: Applications

Emails from ITS regarding OneDrive Limit

If you’d rather read it for yourself, check out this blog post.  It explains it pretty well in layman’s terms.  https://blog.shi.com/next-generation-infrastructure/are-you-prepared-for-the-end-of-office-365-a1-plus-and-unlimited-cloud-storage/ OK, so WHAT IS GOING ON?  Microsoft is changing storage allocations for all institutions, all users, everywhere based on the types of licenses they have.  The VAST majority of WSU users have what’s called […]

Categories: Announcements

VCEA IT Maintenance – connect.vcea.wsu.edu – December 18, 2023

On Monday, December 18th, 2023, we’re going to update connect.vcea.wsu.edu to the latest version of Apache Guacamole, as well as perform backend updates to the container service. There will be some downtime while we update the services. See below for maintenance info. Maintenance Info POC: VCEA Systems Team (Erik) What: connect.vcea.wsu.edu planned updates and maintenance When: […]

Categories: Applications

Student EECS Account

Passwords: For assistance with your account, please come to the VCEA Helpdesk located in Sloan 358. Our hours are Monday – Friday 8 am – 5 pm. You will need to bring your Cougar Card. If you are an Everett, Tri-Cities, or Global Campus student, let us know for further support options. Links for the VPN and […]

Categories: Announcements