The following are the scheduled power outages per building. Note that lab controlled machines will be shut down at 3pm to give time to fix problems, and machine...
Table of Contents VPN to campus Follow the directions at https://dotcio.rpi.edu/services/network remote access/vpn connection and installation/configuring vpn ma...
Offices Each graduate office typically has at least one general purpose CSLab machine. While these machines may not restrict logins locally or remotely, it is exp...
Email Servers exchange server for faculty and staff * https://dotcio.rpi.edu/services/email/exchange Students will use their standard RCS accounts for email. N...
Department servers Network services provided by the department include web, filesystem, backup, and remote access. Servers that you are likely to need are: hos...
We will be upgrading most of our public facing servers starting December 13th and continuing into December 14th. We will try to keep the outages short, but note ...
Printing Configuration * Check the list of PublicPrinters for details on drivers and configuration options before proceeding to the general directions below ...
The following is a list of commonly used packages with high impact vulnerabilities (more recent at the top): Package OS Minimum Version As of * Severity...
Bionic Beaver (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Version) Install With VirtualBox 5.2.x 1. If you are using a Windows host operating system, it must be either Pro or E...
Resolving Guest DNS While Connected to Campus VPN If your Virtualbox Guest cannot resolve DNS while the host is connected to campus VPN do the following: Find ...
Important Note * Do not fall for scams that try to gather passwords or personal information. (Click here for tips on avoiding them) * Alerts and Downtime ...
Department email list server Login * Go to https://sympa.cs.rpi.edu/ * click on Rensselaer Computer Science * In general, you want to log in with your R...
chrome firefox * T ools, Add Ons * Click the Get Add ons tab * Click Browse All Add ons in the top right corner * Search for plugins of interest the...
Avoiding Web Scams * Always suspect requests for information that you did not initiate. * Hover over links before clicking them and make sure they are point...
5/15/17 5/16/17 unreliable overnight It appears that the exchange server ran out of space and some messages were being rejected, problem fixed 5/16/17@8:34
10/4/16 ok Our connection to the netapp was down from around 9am to 11am due to NFS server memory exhaustion 10/5/16 ok CII machine room overheated and ...
Departmental Backups Files in your unix home directory or under project space are automatically backed up several times each day. A snapshot (see below) of files...
* Unless you have a paid support contract, you can only update Java 6 to update version 45, and they reference 81. * If you need to be able to use Banner and...
For exchange * https://sharepoint.rpi.edu/support/exchange/WikiPages/Outlook2007and2010Settings.aspx For gmail with two factor authentication * You need to...
From your home directory, type: * mkdir public.html * chmod 755 public.html and then put your index.html and other files inside the directory. Your web p...
* Select "Local Folders", then click on "View settings for this account" * Click on "Account Actions" at the bottom, and select "Add Email Account" * Fill i...
Linux * Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 14.04 * Please see LabstaffUbuntu for additional advice. OSX/ Apple ( not officially supported ) * Labstaff will help as p...