Sometimes I feel that people only know of one or two of the labs that we manage on campus. There are several locations spread across campus for students to use which is handy so you don’t have to walk all the way across campus to use the labs.

Labs Location

Note: All of the computers in the labs that we manage have all the same software except in labs that require additional software. We make sure that all of our desktops have the same look and feel to them to make the user experience more smooth when moving from lab to lab.

The new computers arrived this Monday in one big batch a bit earlier than we were told by Dell(which has been typical the past few years) and we have begun the process of replacing the computers in Roberts and prepping the old ones for the reallocation process. We plan on having all the new computers in place by Friday and starting the reallocation process Monday.

Well it turns out that we were missing some parts for the new switches that were slated to be put in this week. With that and the nice little waterfall that occurred in ITC we were set back a few days and only finished Roberts, Reid and Cheever labs switch upgrades. Those rooms are now all full 1000mb and in the next week or so when we get the rest of the parts we will upgrade Leon Johnson, Wilson, Linfield and the SUB.

The new computers are also suppose to arrive next week sometime starting Tuesday. We will begin the reallocation process in Roberts 109 and 110 Tuesday and Wednesday which includes putting a blank Windows XP image on all the computers and performing a few other things to the hardware to get them ready for their new homes around campus in other departments. Starting after the class finishes on Wednesday in Roberts 111 we will start putting in the new computers(if they actually have come).

Also, we will be expanding our public access to an area in Sports PE with two computers. I’m not exactly sure where they are going yet, but will post about them when we get them in place.

We will be doing some maintenance on our print server tomorrow during the day which will interrupt printing slightly during a small period of time. Included in this maintenance will be renaming the SUB printer to just SUB Printer instead of Sub Printer(by Ask us).

Orientation is taking place in the labs this week. Tuesday MPLEX testing is in Roberts 109, 110, and 111 from 9 - 1 and then student pre-scheduling is in all of our labs from 1pm to 5pm.

Wednesday scheduling for all the incoming freshmen is in the three Roberts labs from 8am - 1pm.