C&CZ has bought together with TCM and Theoretical Chemistry two licenses for the concurrent use of the most recent version of the Intel Parallel Studio XE for Linux. This has been installed in /vol/opt/intelcompilers and is available on a.o. clusternodes en loginservers. The old (2014) version can also be found there. To set the environment variables correctly, BASH-users must first run: source /vol/opt/intelcompilers/intel-2019/composerxe/bin/compilervars.sh intel64 After that, icc -V gives the new version number as output....

As of January, 2016, using Microsoft Visio Pro and Microsoft Project has to be paid per pc per year. Most other Microsoft products for which RU has licenses, can be used freely on RU pcs. As of January 2019, prices for Viso and Project have changed considerably, see below. Please contact C&CZ if you use or want to start using Visio or Project. Product 2018 2019 Microsoft Visio Pro (Employees, group license)...

::: {#.5BTijdelijk_gratis_Stata-licentie_op_RU-werkplekken.5D.5BTemprarily_free_Stata_licence_on_RU_pc.27s.5D} ::: Together with Radboudumc, Radboud University has signed a campus license for Stata. Stata is statistical software that is in use at a number of faculties - especially at FSW and FM. The costs for the use of Stata have been relatively high up to now. Because now there is a campus license, it has become much cheaper for new users: until November 2019 it can be used free of charge on pc’s owned by Radboud University....

With the move to IPT, telephony has become a network application. Telephony management has become much less time consuming. Therefore, as of January 1, 2019, C&CZ will transfer the management of FNWI telephony to the RU central telephony management at the ISC. For networking at FNWI, you can still contact C&CZ.

Monday evening November 26, there will be maintenance on central RU network equipment: some routers will get a software upgrade. From 22:00 hours, parts of the RU network and central RU-services will not be available. Within Huygens and other FNWI buildings the internet and wireless network will not be available from 23:30-00:30 hours. Please think which processes depend on connectivity and prepare for this possible outage if necessary. Future maintenance windows can be seen on the ISC website....

Endnote version X9 is available for MS-Windows and Mac OS X. It can be found on the install network disk. The license permits use by employees and students, also at home. Within short notice it will also be available in the Software Center of the C&CZ managed pc with Windows 10.

With the lower prices for network discs and backup, several departments have started the move from locally managed discs to backupped fileservers of C&CZ. In general this has big advantages for reliability, backup and access rights that can be mananaged by the department itself. Biggest disadvantage is that network discs that have to be backed up, have to be divided in projects or other chunks of max. ca. 400 GB. Departments interested in moving their data to C&CZ fileservers should contact postmaster....

New departmental computers can be installed with Windows10 by C&CZ. Also existing pc’s can get an upgrade from Windows7 to Windows10. You can make an appointment for this with the C&CZ helpdesk. After that, users can install software themselves with the catalogue of the Software Center. N.B.: the Outlook2016 installed with Windows10 doesn’t work well with the Science IMAP mailserver. Alternatives: mailclients like Roundcube and Thunderbird or a different mailserver like the RU Exchange mail and calendar service....

Instructions to install the most recent version of Microsoft Office, 2019, are available on the Install network share. There is a new installation method, with the Office Deployment Tool. The MAK license code is known to the C&CZ helpdesk. They can share the screen of your PC and then enter the code. They only do that if the PC is owned by FNWI. For privately owned computers you can order this software relatively cheap at Surfspot....

Monday evening October 1, there will be maintenance on central RU network equipment: all routers get a software upgrade. From 22:00 hours, parts of the RU network will not be available, a.o. wireless and Internet access. The network in Huygens and other FNWI buildings will not be available from 01:00-02:00 hours. Also C&CZ services will be disrupted. Please think which processes depend on connectivity to RU central services and prepare for this possible outage if necessary....