Welcome to the NextPASS Blog

This blog details the journey for ITS staff to provide the next (now the current) version of the Penn State Access Account Storage Space (PASS), Penn State's Enterprise Filesystem.

Much of the detail is technical in nature.  Technical reading ability assumed.

By Jeff D'Angelo, technology lead for the 2008 PASS Migration Project.

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Database behind Blogs (and other things) upgraded today
http://alerts.its.psu.edu/alert-1278 ran without a hitch.  Yes, this post is part of the verification. ;-)…
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Samba server upgrade
Starting October 20th, and ending this morning, we upgraded each of the 6 Samba (SMB/CIFS) PASS Gateways.  They now have…
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Departmental PASS ACL Reset
This morning around 5am, we updated the ACL reset function of PASS Explorer's File Access Control Manager to properly handle…
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