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• Annual system maintenance (security and system updates)

  June 18, 2013
  Who: Wheaton College Faculty, Staff, and Students What: Systems Outage (virtually all college systems) Why: Annual system maintenance (security and system updates) When: Sunday, June 23rd from 7:30am to 4:30pm Details: In our continuing effort to improve LIS services, all college systems will be down for annual maintenance (system and security updates). All administrative systems [...]

  Who: Wheaton College Faculty, Staff, and Students
  What: Systems Outage (virtually all college systems)
  Why: Annual system maintenance (security and system updates)
  When: Sunday, June 23rd from 7:30am to 4:30pm

  Details: In our continuing effort to improve LIS services, all college systems will be down for annual maintenance (system and security updates).

  All administrative systems (Banner, Moodle, Self-Service, Inside and Webfocus) will be down during the entire maintenance window from 7:30am – 4:30pm on Snuday, June 23rd.

  Email and calendaring WILL be available from OFF campus.

  From 7:30 to 9:30 expect intermittent network/Internet service. Email and calendar will be available ON CAMPUS after 9:30. All other services except Banner systems noted above, will be intermittent for the entire maintenance window.

  If you have any questions or concerns regarding this outage, please contact LIS Technical Support Staff at x3900 or support@wheatoncollege.edu

• Possible network and file services interruptions

  June 18, 2013
  Who: Wheaton College Faculty, Staff, and Students What: Possible network and file services interruptions Why: To upgrade network equipment When: Thursday, June 20th from 4:30pm to 8:30pm Details: In our continuing effort to improve LIS services, the Library router and switches will be modified and mostly effect those parts of the network directly connecting the [...]

  Who: Wheaton College Faculty, Staff, and Students
  What: Possible network and file services interruptions
  Why: To upgrade network equipment
  When: Thursday, June 20th from 4:30pm to 8:30pm

  Details: In our continuing effort to improve LIS services, the Library router and switches will be modified and mostly effect those parts of the network directly connecting the Library (Mars Science, Old Science, HAAS, Meadows) during our normal maintenance window from 4:30 pm until 9:30 pm on Thursday, June 20th. There should only be short outages as network ports are rebooted . We are hopeful that this work will not affect the entire campus but it could affect the equipment in Park Hall during some of this time.

  Access to all other electronic services including electronic mail and Internet access may be unavailable during this time. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this outage, please contact Technology Support at support@wheatoncollege.edu.

• Digital Millennium Copyright Act- The DMCA at Wheaton

  February 20, 2013
  Who: Wheaton College Students What: Digital Millennium Copyright Act- The DMCA at Wheaton Why: Reminder - Distributing copyrighted materials without the consent of the owner is against federal law. It is Wheaton policy to respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement. DETAILS: DMCA infringements over the last 6+ years: 2007 – 111 infringements 2008 [...]

  Who: Wheaton College Students
  What: Digital Millennium Copyright Act- The DMCA at Wheaton
  Why: Reminder - Distributing copyrighted materials without the consent of the owner is against federal law. It is Wheaton policy to respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement.

  DETAILS: DMCA infringements over the last 6+ years:
  2007 – 111 infringements
  2008 – 19 infringements
  2009 – 18 infringements
  2010 – 23 infringements
  2011 - 40 infringements
  2012 - 38 infringements
  2013 - 11 infringements (so far)

  Though file sharing through Peer to Peer (P2P) software has become commonplace in its use in distributing copyrighted material it is a violation of Federal Law. You may be familiar with some Peer-to-Peer (P2P) sharing programs, Ares, Bearshare, BitTorrent, Kazaa, Limewire, Morpheus, or Instant Messenger file transfers but their use for sharing copyrighted materials is illegal.

  Wheaton and the DMCA
  Please visit http://wheatoncollege.edu/technology/started/filesharing.html to understand the ramifications of DMCA violations here at Wheaton.

  Directions to remove Peer to Peer file sharing programs
  Please visit http://wheatoncollege.edu/technology/started/networks-wheaton/remove-file-sharing-programs/ for more information about file sharing and for directions on how to remove Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing programs from your computer.

  If you have any questions please contact: Sue Morgado at smorgado@wheatonma.edu, or Technology Support at extension 3900, support@wheatonma.edu