Panopto will be upgrading its cloud service on Saturday 22 June from 19:00 until approximately 22:00. Users will not be able to access or upload lecture capture recordings during this downtime.

We'll be implementing a significant migration of the University Wireless Service to a new underlying operating system and controller platform in a carefully phased roll-out over the next 4 weeks.

UIS Networks will be carrying out an upgrade of the software on the University Data Network (UDN, previously the CUDN) backbone network routers this summer.

Extent: MCS Linux remote-login services; DS-Filestore SFTP service. Impact: Each server will be rebooted. We will reboot each of these servers from 12:30 on Thursday 6 June for emergency works. This is to fix a recently announced Exim mail server vulnerability, given the formal designation CVE-2019-10149. Users connected to a rebooting machine will be given a few minutes notice to save their work, then disconnected while the server updates itself. We will stagger reboots so that at least one server will remain available for new connections during the emergency works.

Extent: MCS Linux remote-login services; DS-Filestore SFTP service. Impact: Each server will be rebooted. We will reboot each of these servers between 17:30 and 19:00 on Wednesday 29th May to apply routine software updates. Users connected to a rebooting machine will be given a few minutes notice to save their work, then disconnected while the server updates itself. We will stagger reboots so that at least one server will remain available for new connections throughout the maintenance period.

UIS enrolled all members of the University in our Google G Suite account, known as G Suite@Cambridge, on 2 May.

Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 7 on 14 January 2020. The good news is that you may be entitled to a free upgrade to Windows 10, if your institution is participating in the University's EES agreement.

UIS and the Office of External Affairs and Communications are collaborating on a Digital Presence Strategy for the University. Hundreds of web editors across the University have started contributing towards a list of requirements.

New regulations came into force last year that aim to ensure public sector websites are accessible to all users. UIS has formed a working group to ensure the University's centrally managed digital services comply with these regulations and increase digital inclusivity.

To celebrate International Girls in ICT Day, staff from University Information Services (UIS) have visited a secondary school in Cambridgeshire to encourage girls with an interest and aptitude for IT to pursue careers in the sector.

The equipment hosting the University IT Service Catalogue is approaching end of life. UIS will outline recommendations for the catalogue's future in a paper to the next ISC Ops committee.