Guests and partners management module

On February 04, 2021, the functionality “Mass import” and “Early termination of the contractual relationship” was withdrawn because the expiration date is missing on the application. The functionality for individual application of a guest-and-partner contractual relationship is still available.

On 02.03.2021 between 7.00 and 8.00 a.m.

During the maintenance work, the synchronisation between the IDM and the connected systems/institutions (including TU-LDAP, ULB, Microsoft AD) will be briefly interrupted. This affects, for example, password changes and the setting of consent for Hessenbox and DFN-AAI in the IDM portal.

On 09.02.2021 between 10.00 and 11.00 a.m.

During this period, the HRZ will carry out maintenance work on the identity management system. During this time, it will not be possible to manage guest TU-IDs in the IDM portal for approx. 10 minutes. Further restrictions are not expected.

On 16.02.2021 from 8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.

Due to migration work, the ARS system will not be available on 16 February 2021.

On 03.02.2021 between 8.00 and 8.30 a.m.

+++Update successfully completed+++ (03.02.2021) During the maintenance work to improve the guest and partner administration, no guests and partner contractual relationships can be viewed or created in the IDM portal.

On 19.02.2021 from 6 to 7.30 p.m.

On Friday, 19.02.2021, between 6 to 7.30 p.m., Telekom will change the node (SBC) to which our external telephone connections are switched. There will be interruptions in telephony during this period. Internal telephony is not affected.

On 02.02.2021 from 7.30 to 8.00 a.m.

Due to a configuration change, the system must be rebooted.

Adobe has discontinued support for the Flash Player as of 31.12.2020.

In this context, the paragraph template “Animation (SWF)” will be removed from FirstSpirit and corresponding paragraphs, if still present, will be deleted without consultation!

Security advice for webmail software Roundcube

Due to a security advisory on the webmail software Roundcube, which was published at the end of 2020, potentially affected systems in DFN's area of responsibility have been identified.

On 27.01.2021 from 7.00 to 8.00 a.m.

The application has to be restarted during the mentioned period due to an update of the TeXLive modules. The file upload will also be extended with the update.

Update vom 25.01.2020 um 14:27: Die Störung ist behoben. Einige (ca. 30) Cisco IP Telefone, hauptsächlich in S3|10, verweigern die Neuregistrierung nach dem Zertifikatupdate des CallManagers. Wir arbeiten an der Behebung. Da ein Reset vor Ort vorgenommen werden muss, nimmt dies etwas Zeit in Anspruch. Die Jabber-Nutzung, der an den Telefonen verwendeten Rufnummern, ist davon nicht betroffen.

On 22.01.21 between 4.00 and 4.30 a.m.

On Friday morning a reboot has to be carried out, due to which the system will be unavailable for a short period of about 5 minutes.

On 21.01.21 between 14.00 and 15.00 o'clock

+++UPDATE successfully completed+++ (26.01.2021) Due to maintenance work, it will not be possible to manage guest TU IDs in the IDM portal for approx. 10 minutes during the above-mentioned period. Further restrictions are not expected.

For teaching

The Video Content Management System “Panopto”, which has been available at TU Darmstadt since this winter semester, has been updated to version 10. This update has brought some significant improvements and also new functions – we want to summarise the most important ones here.

System unavailable from 22 January, 1 p.m. to 25 January 2021, 12 p.m.

Due to an update, the Chemical Stock Cadastre System (CLAKS) will be unavailable during the mentioned period.

+++ Today, 15.01.2021, between 1 and 5 p.m. +++

A security patch for the Hessenbox servers must be installed at short notice. There will be no downtime as a result.

On 28.01.2021 from 6 to 10 pm

A server restart causes Cisco telephony and Jabber connections to fail. The Jabber functionality is not available or only available to a limited extent during the restart.

Am 14.01.2021 kam es bis ca. 11 Uhr zu sporadischen Störungen im WLAN, so luden Webseiten teilweise langsam.

Problems accessing functional mailboxes

+++UPDATE+++ (27.01.2021) With the installation of the update CU19 for Exchange 2016 on 22.01.2021, the problems with accessing file attachments via the groupware web interface were resolved.

On 11.01.2021 from 8 to 10 pm

During this period, DFN-AAI will carry out maintenance work on our outsourced identity provider. As a result, login to services via idp.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de (e.g. GitLab Aachen and DFN-Webconf) will not be possible.