From:                     Doug Cannon

Sent:                      Friday, December 31, 1999 3:03 AM

To:                         Research Division-Redmond Only (ALL)

Subject:                 Final warning! Servers is "locked", please read!

Less than 2 days left to the end of the Year!

As we prepare to enter the final year of the millennium, we believe we need to prepare for the havoc that may occur as a result of viruses and other malicious programs.  To counter potential virus attacks over this significant New Year holiday, ITG and MSRSupp will restrict our primary servers to read-only as per the following:

As of now, and ending the evening of Monday, 03 January 2000 (local time):  All ITG-managed and MSRSupp managed file servers not on our exclusion list is in "read only" mode.

The only exception to this (so far) will be \\atr\anamation,  \\atr\vistech and \\research\root\federation as the  groups who need access to these shares will keep working to meet critical deadlines. MSR-Conf will also be excepted from the lock down.

How will this impact you?

Almost all the <\\research\root> directories and other servers and shares related to our group will be read-only.  This will affect VSS, SLM and file server shares for many if not all users.  Data can be read, but nothing can be written or saved back to the original location. 

Exclustion of shares deadline has passed so it will be difficult to get any additional shares excluded from this "lock-down".

Y2K Compliance

This is also a great time to insure your computers are ready for the Year 2000, please go to the following web pages for information and upgrades to your systems to insure Y2K compliance.

Desktop: <http://itgweb/y2k/desktop/>

Overall: <http://itgweb/y2k/>

Virus Update - Required for Network access from Thursday, 30 Dec 1999 through the evening of Monday, 03 January 2000.

You must have the latest version and signature files of Inoculan or Notion AntiVirus installed on your machine in order to gain access to the Corporate and Research network during the "lock down" period.  You can check to see if you have the latest version and signature flies by checking the web site at: http://itgweb/virus.

Have a Happy New Year,

Your MSR support team.

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