Academic Computing & Communications Center,University of Tsukuba https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e ACCC Fri, 08 Mar 2024 08:15:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 207783744 Maintenance with communication interruptions in the backbone network(3/26、3/27) https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/net20240308/ Fri, 08 Mar 2024 08:15:40 +0000 https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/?p=4649 Continue reading ]]> The following work will be performed with communication breakdowns on the backbone network.
All of this is carried out within the planned working days.

Date and time:Tuesday, March 26 10:00~12:00
Work contents:Maintenance of On-Campus Wi-Fi System
Impact:The signal being sent from On-Campus Wi-Fi system will stop.

Date and time:Wednesday, March 27 10:00~12:00
Work contents:Maintenance of external connection equipment
Impact:Network connection breakdown will occur several times for about 10 minutes on all off-campus lines and the Tokyo campus connection line.

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[Failure][Resolved] Unified Authentication System IdP Consent Confirmation https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/idp-trouble-2024-03-04/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 08:39:53 +0000 https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/?p=4637 Continue reading ]]> Between 16:30 on Friday, March 1, 2024 and 13:00 on Monday, March 4, 2024, users were unable to log in via the Shibboleth IdP of the Unified Authentication System to SPs they have never used before or to SPs whose consent confirmation for sending attributes was reset.

The situation has now been restored.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

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2024-02-19 Unified Authentication System Temporary Maintenance https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/2024-02-19-unified-authentication-system-temporary-maintenance/ Wed, 07 Feb 2024 07:20:50 +0000 https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/?p=4631 Continue reading ]]> We will be conducting maintenance work on the Unified Authentication System from 18:00 on Monday, February 19, for about 2 hours.

The web server account.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp will be inaccessible for about 30 minutes during this time.

  • Password reissue
  • Password change by users
  • Confirmation of registration information by users

will not be able to be performed during this time.

Logging in using the Unified Authentication System itself will not be affected.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and ask for your understanding.

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End of provision due to the end of MS support for Office 2019 for Mac https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/20240202office2019mac/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 01:29:42 +0000 https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/?p=4627 Continue reading ]]> Microsoft support for Office 2019 for Mac ended on October 10, 2023.

Therefore, we will also end the provision of the download station (software distribution management system) at our university.
Office 2019 for Mac will continue to work for a while, but please upgrade to the new version of Office from a security perspective.

For the upgrade

If you have a @u or @un email account, then using the comprehensive agreement between our university and Microsoft, you can install Microsoft 365 Office app, launch and sign in to use it.

For more details on Microsoft 365 Office (personal use of Microsoft products), please refer to Microsoft Products (for private use)/

If you use Microsoft 365 Office (which has been installed by the PC administrator user) on a PC shared by multiple users having @u or @un, please create a PC account (profile) for each user. Every user can sign in then use it after login the PC with his/her own PC account.
* Using Microsoft 365 Office from a common PC account (same ID/password) suffers from the risk that one’s OneDrive, etc., are open to access by multiple persons.

For cases such that non-member users (do not have @u or @un) to use Office on a shared PC, please contact us.

Contact for this matter

Please find and follow “Contact” at the bottom of https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/service/software-license/ees/

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Urgent Backbone Network System Maintenance (2023/12/28) https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/net20231228/ Mon, 25 Dec 2023 07:28:25 +0000 https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/?p=4617 Continue reading ]]> Maintenance of Backbone Network System will take place.
Network connections will be interrupted during the maintenance.

Date and time: Thursday, December 28, 2023, 12:15 〜 13:15 PM
Work contents: Maintenance of Network Equipment
Impact: There will be a short communication outage several times during the above period.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Migrating from Microsoft Teams (old) to the new Microsoft Teams https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/20231221teams/ Thu, 21 Dec 2023 06:58:12 +0000 https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/?p=4608 Continue reading ]]> Microsoft has announced significant changes to Microsoft Teams (hereinafter referred to as “Teams”).
This implies that users will need to switch to the new Teams app.
The existing app (hereinafter referred to as the “old app”) is scheduled to be unavailable after March 2024.

[Summary]

  • Microsoft is making changes to Teams.
  • The old app will no longer be available after March 2024.
  • Users will be able to switch between the old and new apps starting in January 2024.
  • The new app is already available (However, the Web browser version is not yet available).
  • Please research the features of the new app individually if necessary.

Our university plans to allow users to choose and implement the transition from the old app to the new Teams in response to these changes (scheduled for January 2024).

Those currently using the old app will be able to introduce the new Teams through its features.

※ Please note that the old app distribution has already ended, so this announcement does not apply to those who have already adopted the new app.

For reference information on the new Teams, please visit the following site: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software/

[Note]
The Academic Computing & Communications Center does not provide support for using the app.
However, we do address account-related issues. Please research the specific usage of the app on your own.

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ACCC Closure during Year-End and New-Year Holidays https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/yearendandnewyear/ Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:00:19 +0000 https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/?p=2315 ACCC will be closed during the following period:

Friday, December 29, 2023 – Thursday, January 4, 2024

Problems and inquiries that may occur during the period will be addressed from Friday, January 5, 2024.

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Elimination of the utwlan-pub to obtain passphrases for utwlan-w in the On-Campus Wi-Fi System. (End of November) https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/n20231120/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 07:42:16 +0000 https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/?p=4577 The utwlan-pub service, which was used to obtain the passphrase for utwlan-w in the On-Campus Wi-Fi System, will be terminated at the end of November.

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[Important] Change initial password for the Unified Authentication System as soon as you received it https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/2023-10-initial-password/ Thu, 05 Oct 2023 08:22:34 +0000 https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/?p=4553 Continue reading ]]> To new students enrolled in September or October

The initial password for the Unified Authentication System notified to you by card or other means will expire if you do not change it within the specified period.

If you have not changed it yet, please do so immediately from the Unified Authentication System page.

(We have also announced this to the relevant persons by e-mail.)

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Notice on Termination of Microsoft Stream(Classic) https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/20230807stream/ Mon, 07 Aug 2023 04:24:11 +0000 https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/?p=4531 Continue reading ]]> As announced before, Microsoft Stream (classic) is replaced by Stream (on SharePoint) in a certain term so please move your videos accordingly.

In this case, the following problems may occur.

  • Videos on Stream (classic) owned by users who have quit (retired, graduated, etc.) our University will be deleted according to the replacement.
  • Only the owners of the videos on Stream (classic) can operate, including downloading.
    Therefore, other users cannot access these videos if the owners have quit.

Due to copyright issues, ACCC cannot change the ownership of such videos without the owners’ consent.

Owners who plan to leave please transfer the ownership to other members beforehand.

See also:
Migration to Stream (on SharePoint) following the Discontinuation of Stream (Classic)
https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/stream-classic-discontinuation/

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