Project Description

Apple will soon be releasing a new version of their Mac OS X operating system called "Lion". At this time, we are recommending users do not upgrade to Lion until ITS is able to fully test compatibility and confirm vendor support with PGP and other ITS supported applications.

Please note that when compatibility and support are confirmed, the Mac App store will not allow a PGP encrypted machine to upgrade to Lion.

ITS is pleased to announce that Dan Dickinson has been promoted to be the new Associate Director for Design and Development effective March 21, 2011. This new position will oversee the work of both the Software Development and the Web and Multimedia Groups. Dan's leadership of the Software Development Group and his work with various collaborative technologies (Nexus, Jira, etc.) make him ideally suited to leading the growth of both groups in the future, as web-driven services, sites, and applications converge.

Apple made the Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.7 available as of 3/21/2011. PGP has not yet certified their laptop encryption software as being compatible with Mac OS X 10.6.7. If you have a Mac PGP-encrypted laptop and are prompted to upgrade your system to 10.6.7 or any combinations of older version such as 10.6.5 or 10.6.6, please do not perform the upgrade at this time as it may cause your Mac to be unbootable. ITS will notify you as soon as we receive notification from PGP that they have certified Mac OS X 10.6.7 and confirmed that it is safe to upgrade.

Mac OS X 10.6.5 and 10.6.6 are not compatible with the PGP Whole Disk Encryption.

If you are a WCMC user with a PGP-enabled Mac computer, do not upgrade to Mac OS X 10.6.5 or 10.6.6. Doing so will cause your Mac to be unbootable, requiring a restore using a Time Machine backup.

ITS now supports Windows 7 Enterprise. You can upgrade your existing computer or have Windows 7 installed when your new computer arrives. Consider the following points when deciding to upgrade:

It is my great pleasure to announce the appointment of David Lifka as the Director of Research Computing for Weill Cornell. Dr. Lifka is currently the Director of the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Computing and Information Science. He will split his time between New York City and Ithaca expanding the ITS service offerings dedicated to research and building new linkages between the two campuses.

The ITS Web Design & Development group recently launched five new web sites for Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital:

Weill Cornell Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Lead Designer: Bernard Boey

On June 15, access to ESPN.com was denied due to the overwhelming usage of the site which affected network traffic and performance.

On June 16, access to ESPN.com has been restored to the WCMC community. However access to ESPN3.com, which is streaming the FIFA World Cup, will remain inaccessible except in the student dorms.

Please be advised if access to ESPN3.com affects WCMC network's traffic and usage, ITS reserves the right to deny access to ESPN3.com to preserve network performance.

On April 15th Microsoft released Office 2010. ITS is currently in the process of compatibility testing for Office 2010. ITS is diligently working on completing the application certification process to fully support Office 2010. In addition, we are also working on the Microsoft licensing package for WCMC. At this time, we strongly discourage departments from purchasing individual Office 2010 licenses.