Critical Patch to Adobe Flash

Due to another security vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player this week, CWC IT recommends all computers (including home computers) are updated to run  Adobe Flash Player version 18.0.0.209 (or later) as soon as possible. This vulnerability is actively being exploited and categorized as critical.

CWC IT will take care of all computers managed by CWC IT.

How to get the patch

• Managed Workstations & other computers managed by IT will be automatically upgraded and patched.
• Home Computers:  I recommend you update your version of Adobe Flash Player as soon as possible.  
• Visit adobe.com to update your Flash Player and click on link at bottom right of their home page (See Click Here in the image below).

                      

• How long will the upgrade take?
• The updates should take less than a minute but may take up to five minutes to complete.
• Computer hardware and network connection speeds will impact the time needed to complete the upgrade.

CWC and Windows 10

MicroSoft is scheduled to release their latest upgrade to Windows 7.x and 8.x on July 29, 2015.  It will be called Windows 10 and is a free upgrade. MicroSoft is currently updating your computer with a "reservation option" as noted below.

At the college, we will not be going to Windows 10 for some time - we will want to thoroughly test it in many environments and with many applications and also want to wait and let others find all the inevitable bugs.  It is likely that we will migrate to Windows 10 sometime next year - and will announce to everyone our plans well in advance.

At home, you will decide if and when you want to do the upgrade.  It all starts with a current version Windows update that puts this icon on your computer desktop:

Here are good resources regarding Windows 10:

• Windows 10 FAQs from MicroSoft.
• How to Upgrade to Windows 10 for Free from MicroSoft.
• Windows 10 Questions Answered by Jack Schofield a good tech blog article from The Guardian.

Service Outage June 3 12:01 - 7:00 am

The following CWC eServices will be UNAVAILABLE:

• 12:01 am - 6:00 am Wednesday June 3, 2015:
• Off-Campus - Pretty much all e-services will be down, including  
• myCENTRAL portal 
• www.cwc.edu public website,
• MyClasses,  
• myAdvisor and 
• email and other Google Apps (GAFEs). 
• During this upgrade, we will redirect visitors to the public website to a maintenance page, explaining that the website is under maintenance.  RDP access for staff will be available.
• On-Campus - CWC eServcies as listed above will be unavailable, but general internet access will remain active.  
• Additionally, from 6:30 - 7:00 am:
• On-Campus - Pretty much all e-services will be down, including general internet access.
• Off-Campus - Most e-services will become available (www.cwc.edu website, myCENTRAL,portal  email and other GAFEs, myClasses, etc) except:
• myAdvisor will remain unavailable
• RDP access for staff will not be available.

John

Details on this outage if interested:

• The first outage allows CWC's website and portal vendor to do a significant upgrade of our eServcies WCMS from 7.1 to 7.3.
• The second outage is because we have had a hardware failure within our core switch which will require CWC IT networking personnel to replace one of the redundant elements of the switch.  We will do so during this maintenance window.