Patch Day!

Created: 2013-01-17 14:17:49

Everyone,

I’ve approved the monthly patches that Microsoft released earlier this week for installation on departmental Windows machines that are connected to our “AD” domain. These patches will begin installing as early as tomorrow morning at 3 AM. Please log off of your machine before you leave for the day if you do not want to run the risk of losing unsaved work due to a machine reboot.

In addition to the Windows patches, the following updates were set up for deployment earlier this week:

Adobe Flash Player ActiveX 11.7.700.202
Adobe Flash Player Plugin 11. 7.700.202
Adobe Reader 9.5.5

The Adobe updates will be applied to your machine the next time it reboots (if they have not already been applied).

As always, if you encounter any problems with the update process please let us know at tech@cs.pitt.edu.

Russ

Random FAQ

Pitt IT's Faculty Computing Program

Pitt IT is offering free software to teaching faculty via their Faculty Computing Program!

Teaching faculty can get software such as Acrobat Pro, Photoshop, MS Office, Visual Studio, Matlab, etc. for FREE! However, there is a catch: to use this software you must have a University IP address.

This specially-modified software requires a communication with a license server every time it is run and therefore direct connection to PITTNET, either by being physically at the University's network or by connecting through a VPN. There is also the possibility that all the licenses for a software product might be in use and therefore users will have to wait their turn to use the software.

In short, using this software on your office computer should be easy to do. Using it outside of the University will be more difficult and, in some cases, impossible.

You can learn more about this program at and the packages offered at: https://technology.pitt.edu/software/faculty-computing-program/access.html

Note that all full-time faculty in the department have already been approved for this program by the department chair.

To download the software please visit http://software.pitt.edu.