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<dt>[[Kaiser power outage (February 20, 2021)]]
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<dd>There is a power outage planned for the Kaiser building on Saturday, February 20, from 10 am to 2 pm. This outage is necessary as part of the MacLeod construction project.
  
<dt>[[Problems connecting to ubcprivate (September 12, 2017)]]
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<dt>[[File and mail migration (2020)]]
<dd>Reports have been received of problems connecting to the "ubcprivate" wireless network.  Central IT has been notified of the situation.  In the meantime, the ECE network can be accessed wirelessly by using the "ubcsecure" wireless network together with the ECE VPN.  A Cisco "AnyConnect" VPN client is available at http://myvpn.ubc.ca.  The server to connect to from the client is myvpn.ubc.ca.  Credentials are the same as for ubcprivate.
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<dd>In October and November 2020, ECE IT will be performing migrations of two major systems that will affect ECE users.  A file migration involves some disruption during each user's cutover period.  The ECE e-mail migration will happen seamlessly and with negligible disruption for the majority of users.
 
 
<dt>[[Matlab license server and Teamshare inaccessible (May 1, 2017)]]
 
<dd>Following the firewall upgrade yesterday, the nameservers for the ead.ubc.ca DNS zone were failing to respond, causing services such as Teamshare and MATLAB licensing to be unavailable to ECE users until 14:45.
 
 
 
<dt>[[ECE firewall upgrade (Apr 30, 2017)]]
 
<dd>On Sunday 2017-04-30, between 09:00 and 10:00 PDT, UBC IT will be performing a network firewall upgrade affecting the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.  During that window, the ECE network will experience a brief outage of less than 10 minutes during the transition.
 
 
 
<dt>[[ECE website outage (Nov 21, 2016)]]
 
<dd>Multiple ECE websites, including www.ece.ubc.ca and courses.ece.ubc.ca, went offline from 16:19 to 18:15.
 
 
 
<dt>[[Teamviewer outage (Jun 1, 2016)]]
 
<dd>Due to widespread reports that unauthorized users have been able to remotely control computers through TeamViewer, we have taken the precaution of blocking TeamViewer on the ECE network.
 
 
 
<dt>[[Malicious email (Feb 11, 2016)]]
 
<dd>If you have received an email with subject "Scan from KM1650" and attachment "=SCAN7318_000.DOC" please do not open it. The attachment contains a trojan.
 
 
 
<dt>[[Change to access to IEEExplore from off-campus]]
 
<dd>Please be aware that the Library no longer provides access to IEEExplore through myVPN. Off-campus users should now use EZproxy instead:
 
 
 
https://login.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/login?qurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.library.ubc.ca
 
 
 
http://ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/login?url=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/DynWel.jsp
 
 
 
Please note that access through EZproxy is available only to current UBC students, staff, and faculty.
 
  
 
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Announcements

Kaiser power outage (February 20, 2021)
There is a power outage planned for the Kaiser building on Saturday, February 20, from 10 am to 2 pm. This outage is necessary as part of the MacLeod construction project.
File and mail migration (2020)
In October and November 2020, ECE IT will be performing migrations of two major systems that will affect ECE users. A file migration involves some disruption during each user's cutover period. The ECE e-mail migration will happen seamlessly and with negligible disruption for the majority of users.