[56] in Kakapo Windows Team
[Fwd: Re: CHANGE TO WIN DOMAIN: OpenAFS and New Pismere msis: Thursday, August 7.]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas L. Thornton)
Thu Aug 7 13:21:09 2003
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:21:08 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200308071721.h77HL8h4015114@the-rim.mit.edu>
From: "Thomas L. Thornton" <tomt@MIT.EDU>
To: kakapo@MIT.EDU
As of this afternoon all WIN machines use the domain-wide deployment
in effect for Pismere (2003-08-06) and OpenAFS (2003-08-06):
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Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 12:59:24 -0400
To: contact-container-admins@mit.edu
From: Joseph Calzaretta <saltine@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: CHANGE TO WIN DOMAIN: OpenAFS and New Pismere msis:
Thursday, August 7.
Cc: container-request@mit.edu, pismere-ops@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030806145454.029ac390@hesiod>
At 03:09 PM 8/6/2003 -0400, Joseph Calzaretta wrote:
>We will send another announcement Thursday afternoon when the change has
>taken place. At that time you may reboot your machines to take the
>update. We will not schedule a domain wide reboot at this time.
The change has taken place. All computers in Machines container hierarchy
(with the exception of Machines/citrix-servers) should get the new version
of Pismere (2003-08-06) and OpenAFS (2003-08-06) at their next
reboot. Please reboot your machines as soon as possible.
The full text of yesterday's message follows:
At 03:09 PM 8/6/2003 -0400, Joseph Calzaretta wrote:
>Dear Container Admins,
>
>A new pismere installer and openafs installer are now available. Early
>testers may reboot their machines to perform final testing.
>
>These installers will become the default installers for the domain
>Thursday afternoon (August 7). For those of you that want more time for
>testing and want to delay there is way to continue to use the older
>installers. Over time, the older installers will become de-supported and
>you will need to update.
>
>In order to temporarily opt out of using the new installers, please send
>an email to container-request@mit.edu, listing either the individual
>machines or container names you want to opt out. We will add these
>machines or containers to the block-pismere-rollout list.
>
>The Machines/citrix-servers container has already been added to
>block-pismere-rollout so that it will not take the new installers by default.
>
>We will send another announcement Thursday afternoon when the change has
>taken place. At that time you may reboot your machines to take the
>update. We will not schedule a domain wide reboot at this time.
>
>The following changes were made to the most recent installer:
>
>1) The Kerberos for Windows merge module had a registry typo. This
>has been fixed. This should only affect Server 2003 machines and XP
>machines that have RDP enabled.
>
>2) Another change to Leash and Kerberos 4 libraries that should not
>have any user visible changes in the domain.
>
>3) Another fix for the "add" command.
>
>Separate from the installer, the renew command, which resides in DFS,
>should now work correctly with both versions of AFS being used in the domain.
>
>If you encounter any problems please remember to use sendbug, or send
>email to pismere-bugs@mit.edu.
>
>Please let us know your comments and concerns (public:
>contact-container-admins@mit.edu, private: container-request@mit.edu).
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