Planned work on 4/2 for home and group directories
Mar. 22, 2017
A service outage is planned for all Managed Workstation home (H:) and group (I:\groups) directories. What and When: On Sunday, April 2, 2017, all Managed Workstation home (H:) and group (I:\groups) directories will be unavailable from 8am to 9am, for planned maintenance.…
Windows 8.1 will move to retirement
Feb. 28, 2017
The Managed Workstation Service is moving Windows 8.1 into retirement on May 1, 2017. What and When: Starting on May 1, 2017, Managed Workstation support for Windows 8.1 will be done on a consulting hours basis only. What does this mean? Managed…
Windows 7 moves to containment
Feb. 21, 2017
Every operating system has a support life-cycle determined by the software publisher, and the Managed Workstation service places each operating system into a support life-cycle. The Managed Workstation Service is moving Windows 7 into containment. What and When: Managed Workstation will continue…
Windows 10 upgrades coming next week
Jan. 31, 2017
We will start upgrading all computers running Windows 10 to the latest version, 1607 – also known as Anniversary Edition, starting next week (2/6/2017). What and when As we recently announced, all computers running Windows 10 will be upgraded to version 1607,…
Brown bag lunch January 30th 2017
Jan. 13, 2017
Join us January 30, 2017 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm for an awesome open discussion on the Windows 10 Anniversary Edition upgrade. Grab your lunch and join us in the Visitors Dining Room on the 4th floor in the UW Tower. Agenda …
Disabling all remaining NEBULA2 accounts
Nov. 14, 2016
We will begin disabling all remaining NEBULA2 user accounts the week of 11/28. What and when: Starting the week of 11/28, we will begin disabling the remaining 221 NEBULA2 accounts that are still in use. What you need to do: If you…
Nebula2 Account Disables
Nov. 14, 2016
We will begin disabling all remaining NEBULA2 user accounts the week of 11/28. What and when: The week of 11/28, we will begin disabling the remaining 221 NEBULA2 accounts that are still in use. What you need to do: If you are…
Managed Workstation Newsletter (December 2016)
Oct. 20, 2016
Welcome to the semi-annual Managed Workstation service newsletter, which brings you valuable updates and information to help you make the most of our services. This is usually semi-annual, but we’re late by 3 months this time around. Sorry! New Capabilities and Improvements…
Service design change: DNS search suffixes
Sep. 27, 2016
Managed Workstation service design change: DNS search suffixes What and When We’ll be making a change to all managed workstations over a period of a week, in increasing numbers of computers. A few will get this change Friday night 9/30, more Monday…
Service design change: Default domain
Sep. 27, 2016
Managed Workstation service design change: Default domain What and When We’ll be making a change to all managed workstations over a period of a week, in increasing numbers of computers. A few will get this change Friday night 9/30, more Monday night,…