IT News You Can Use - February 20

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Did You Know?

ETS is starting to plan for AU ‘23/SP ‘24 already, and will soon be asking what software you need for the classes you teach.  Start thinking about it now!  Formal requests will be coming soon.  Thank you!


Accessibility Tips and Tricks 

Beginning in March, the Digital Accessibility Coffee Hour will be held twice a month!  Updated dates and times have been added to the DACH Event Page.  We hope this change allows more faculty and staff to attend the coffee hour to ask their accessibility questions and participate in some accessibility training.  


Upcoming Work

Important: The information below applies to Engineering Linux systems managed by ETS.

On Wednesday, March 1st at 10:00 P.M., ETS will start the process that updates all COE Linux systems managed by ETS. 

  • The process will take some time and will run overnight. We do not expect the update process to cause interruptions, but we recommend that you save any open documents before the update process begins.

On Thursday, March 2nd at 7:15 A.M., ETS will begin rebooting all COE Linux systems managed by ETS.

  • Please save your work and logoff before the reboot process begins to avoid losing any unsaved work.

Please ensure that any Linux systems you, or a group you manage uses, are powered on before March 1st to ensure they are updated and rebooted.

If you encounter any issues on your Linux system(s) after 9:00 A.M. on Thursday, March 2nd, please submit an ETS ticket at https://go.osu.edu/ets.  In the ticket description, please note that it's a Linux system, the hostname of the system, and its location (if known), and someone will assist you as soon as they are available.