[To Staff] Announcement of the temporary network service suspension due to the maintenance

Users. According to the announcement of the network center, the network will be tentatively suspended in the following period due to the emergent network maintenance. [Date]: April 13th, 2020  18:00 — 20:00 (Monday) [Area]:  Inamori Center, East building: During the time frame, the network will be stopped several times. Devices using VLAN fixed connection: The network is unavailable for 18:00 – 20:00 (for 2 hours). CSEAS HP and CSEAS E-mail won’t be influenced. 1st April, 2020: Chief of Information Processing Office: Kitani.

[Information Processing Office]: Measures to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 Infections

Dear all, The information processing office decided to adopt the remote work(telework) from April 13th because of the measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infections. [Date]: From 13th April (Monday) [Working Style]: Perform remote work if the remote work is possible as based on the situation of the previous day. If you call or visit the information processing office and we are not there, please use the contact form. – https://info.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/contactus-en The rental PCs of the information processing office has been reserved for the remote work (telework) priority. So, if you may not be able to reserve the rental PC. Please cooperate with us for the working style with the remote work.

[To Staff] Announcement of the temporary network service suspension due to the power inspection

Users. According to the announcement of the NANSEI administrative office, the electric power supply will be tentatively suspended in the following period. [Date]: March 28th, 2020  8:00 — 9:00 (Saturday) [Area]: Common building [Summary]: The electric power supply in the building will be suspended. [Influence]:  CSEAS HP and CSEAS E-mail won’t be influenced. Of course, the Desktop PC and the network won’t be used because the power supply will be suspended. I recommend to plug off the electric adapters in your PC, HUB, and other electric devices. 19th March, 2020: Chief of Information Processing Office: Kitani.

How to manually uninstall ESET (Windows 10)

Dear all, The manual “How to manually uninstall ESET (Windows 10)” was put on the manual page. If your computer has been installed “ESET Endpoint Security” managed by Administrator, such as the Center and cannot remove the ESET for the clean installation or upgrade it, please refer to the manual. 17th March, 2020 Information Processing Office.

WordPress Plugin “Disable Author Archive Redirection” Released

The plugin was released for preventing security vulnerability regarding the author archive redirection. Disable Author Archive Redirection In detail, please see the blog (only Japanese). 11th March, 2020 Chief of Information Processing Office: Kitani.

Windows 7 End of Support and Choosing new OS (Windows 10)

Dear all, Support for Windows 7 ends today (14th January, 2020). Reference: Windows 7 End of Support and Choosing your Next Operating System (teguar.com) If you are using Windows 7, please consider the following plan. Buy new PC Upgrade to Windows 10 The information processing office has checked the status of Windows 7 use and has been contacting individually to the staffs. Note: Illegal use is to use Windows 10 Free Update Tool except the following special condition! Special condition:  A PC had been ever upgraded to Windows 10 by the end of Windows 10 free upgrade period (at 19:00 on 29th July, 2016). This is Microsoft Official Opinion as...Read More

[Notice] : Please upgrade if you use Adobe Acrobat software products which the support was ended or will be ended soon.

Dear all, The support lifecycle is set by more software, including OS. Please keep in mind that the use of support ended software will provide a case of a critical information security incident because a security vulnerability isn’t supported. As you know, the support of Windows 7 OS will be ended on 13th January 2020. If you use Windows7 OS, please upgrade to Windows10 as soon as possible. Then, we would like to notify you about the end of support products regarding Adobe Acrobat. How to check the Adobe Acrobat version https://www.adobe.com/jp/information/acrobat/endsupport.html The lifecycle of Adobe Products Support https://helpx.adobe.com/support/programs/eol-matrix.html The Support will be ended on 7th April 2020 Please consider upgrading the...Read More

[For Staff] Please upgrade the Center’s security software (ESET)

Dear Center’s members, The Center’s security system (ESET Endpoint) was upgraded. Please upgrade all PCs to the new version. [Target]: All PCs and Mac which the Center’s ESET software was installed. Please download and upgrade the new ESET from the following site. http://cseas.net/eset-upgrade/en/ (Staff only) Even if you use a PC installed latest OS (Windows 10), the security software (ESET) might not support it because of the OS update due to Windows Update. In the case of Mac, the information processing office found out that the ESET hasn’t worked. Maybe, cause the Mac may use old ESET software yet after its OS was upgraded to the new version.  Therefore, please...Read More

[Important] What you should do before upgrading new macOS 10.15 Catalina!

Dear all, Today, new macOS 10.15 Catalina was released! As the information processing office began to check new OS, unfortunately we found out some critical issues, such as old Office cannot work. Therefore, we inform some attentions what you should do before upgrading new mac OS 10.15 Catalina. Wait the upgrade until you confirm the information about the printer driver for macOS 10.15 (9th Oct, 2019) The information processing office confirmed that OKI C810dn and OKI C811dn which are installed at some researcher’s rooms cannot print out on new macOS 10.15. According to the printer support page, OKI C810dn and OKI C811dn will be supported for new macOS 10.15 since...Read More

 [Notice]: Network Service Suspesion due to Building Power Outage associated with Electric Equipment Check

Dear all. According to the announcement(KU network only) from the NANSEI area common administrative office, the power outage associated with the electric equipment check will be carried out the following period. [Date]: 6th October, 2019 (Sun) 13:30 — 17:30 [Place]: Inamori Center, East building, Common building, and Library. [Influence]: 1. Network connection of all-electric machines will be suspended at all Center’s rooms. 2. All power supplies of all-electric machines will be suspended at all Center’s rooms. * Center’s web sites and e-mail service (Gmail)  will be running during the period. This operation is the regular check once a year at Kyoto University. If an electric machine in your office is...Read More