Subject: Administrative: Update #1 - Operational Activation of the --00235429dbc4c9de4004c9e7bfd3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Update #1: The new Data Distribution Server (DDS) was successfully activated today at 1437 UTC. If you find that any of your services are affected, contact use contact ESPC Operations. Topic: Operational Activation of the new ESPC Data Distribution Server (DDS) is scheduled for September 17, 2012 Date/Time Issued: September 17, 2012 1550 UTC Product(s) or Data Impacted: All products that are transferred to/from the ESPC Data Distribution Server (DDS) Date/Time of Initial Impact: September 17, 2012 1430 UTC Date/Time of Expected End: Permanent Change Length of Outage: N/A Details/Specifics of Change: Environmental Satellite Processing Center (ESPC) is planning an operational activation of the new Data Distribution Server (DDS) for September 17, 2012. As part of this transition, the new DDS, (DDSProd) will get the alias DDS. All approved DDS users are set up. If you are an approved DDS user, we recommend that you eliminate your DNS caches after 1430 UTC on September 17, 2012, and confirm that the name DDS is resolving to the new IP (ending with a 7). Otherwise it could take hours or even days for your local DNS to associate the name DDS with the new IP address. Please note: Users who were denied continued access to the DDS in the re-validation process, will not receive data after September 17, 2012 1430 UTC. Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov and 301-817-3880; For any problems after the implementation, please contact DDS.Administrator@noaa.gov during duty hours (Monday-Friday, 9 am - 3 pm EDT except Federal Holidays); For data access questions, please contact NESDIS.Data.Access@noaa.gov Web Site(s) for applicable information: See http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Organization/About/access.html for policy on access and distribution of environmental satellite data and products This message was sent to ESPC.Notification@noaa.gov. You have been sent this and other notifications because you have opted in to receive it. If for any reason, you wish to unsubscribe, please contact ESPC Help Desk at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or (301) 817-3880. Please note: it may take up to two business days to process your unsubscribe request. --00235429dbc4c9de4004c9e7bfd3 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable