For ICS Staff, if you can't find what you're looking for here or in the help pages then you might want to try the Kwiki or the ICS Sharepoint sites: Main ICS Sharepoint Site ICS Admin ICS West IT ICS Infrastructure Team … [Read more...]

The AV System in LT0 has had an upgrade over the Summer break which has seen a number of changes that we’d like to make you aware of in preparation for the start of term. The decision to make the change now has arisen out of a number of factors: An ever dwindling … [Read more...]

The Boardroom AV has been refurbished over August. The projector is now ceiling mounted and the screen automatically drops when the system is powered on. All AV equipment is housed in a secure lectern with local interactive monitor, laptop inputs and a touch screen … [Read more...]

AV systems in LT6 and LT1 have both been upgraded over the Xmas break with new systems also installed in the Dyson Design Centre and Library.     As per LR4 the systems were designed, built and programmed in-house by Gavin MacKenzie and Adam … [Read more...]

Part of the UIS ITX 2015 IT exhibition, the AV Expo will be taking place on the 19th November at the Roger Needham Building in West Cambridge. This is an opportunity for users of teaching technology and audio visual aids to view demonstrations and get hands-on with the … [Read more...]

Over the summer break, AV Support conducted a pilot upgrade of the audio-visual system in LR4. The aim was to make the system easier to use, improve the security of the equipment and house everything in a professional looking lectern. In order to support and inform … [Read more...]

Late on Thursday the 5th, a fault in one of our UPS systems caused some service machines to lose power.  A number of virtual services were affected, but the most noticeable effect was the loss of authentication services. The problem was noticed at approximately 10pm, and … [Read more...]

A power event caused one of our blade chassis to reboot all its servers at approximately 1am.   Some of these servers hosted a portion of our virtual machines, and the services provided by those were affected. Affected servers and services were restarted between 8:30 and … [Read more...]

A failed disc on the fileserver which provides storage for the virtual machines had caused performance issues.   This was noticed and taken offline on Saturday morning, after which the virtual servers took some time to recover back to their normal operating state.  We … [Read more...]

For a live view of the building work associated with the James Dyson Building see: http://www3.eng.cam.ac.uk/buildingcam/ … [Read more...]