<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "></span></div><div>Date: June 10, 2008</div><div><br>To: Members of the MIT Community<br><br>From: Information Services and Technology (IS&T)<br><br>Subj: MIT personal certificate renewal time and Web Browser Recommendations for FY 2009<br><br>--------------------<br><br>As many colleagues experience at this time of year, MIT's personal Web certificates will soon require renewal. Certificates obtained in the past year are set to expire on July 31st, 2008.<br><br>Renewal of personal Web certificates is not automatic. To ensure continued access to MIT's secure Web applications, such as, Benefits, SAPweb, WebSIS, etc., plan to renew in the coming weeks. Acquire your own new personal certificates now at:<br><br> <<a href="http://ca.mit.edu/">http://ca.mit.edu/</a>><br><br>In preparation for this renewal cycle, Information Services and Technology, (IS&T), and colleagues who maintain and support websites across MIT have developed the following browser recommendations. These browser recommendations help simplify IT support and provide a consistent set of standards for MIT web site maintainers. Web site providers can use these standards to ensure delivery of quality web services to our community. It is important that the web browser version be current with the operating system and all critical web browser patches be current.<div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#181818"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">For instructions on how to install certificates, please see the Installing Certificates at MIT page:<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <a href="http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/certificates/guide.html#install" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/certificates/guide.html#install</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">NOTE: If after installing your new certificate, you continue to experience problems accessing certificate-protected sites, you may want to try deleting your expired certificates, as documented here: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/certificates/delete.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/certificates/delete.html</a>. Do not delete an expired certificate if you have used it to sign or receive encrypted email. For more information on what to do in that case, please see: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/certificates/export.html">http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/certificates/export.html</a>.</div></span></font></div><br><div>On Windows, Internet Explorer and Firefox are the recommended and supported web browsers for the upcoming fiscal year.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> Vista Enterprise: IE 7 or Firefox 2.0.0.x<br> Windows XP SP2 or higher: IE 7 or Firefox 2.0.0.x<br></div><div> It is recommended that 64-bit machines run the 32-bit version of Internet Explorer. </div><div><br></div><div><div>On Macintosh, Safari and Firefox are the recommended and supported web browsers for the upcoming fiscal year. <br> MacOS X 10.4.11: Safari 3.1.1 or Firefox 2.0.0.x<br> MacOS X 10.5.2: Safari 3.1.1 or Firefox 2.0.0.x<div><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>On Linux, Firefox is the recommended and supported web browser for the upcoming fiscal year.<br> Linux RHEL 4.6 and earlier and RHEL 5.1 and earlier: Firefox 1.5.0.x<br> Linux RHEL 4.7 and later and RHEL 5.2 and later: Firefox 3.0.x<br><div> The RedHat Linux update service provides security updates to these web browsers</div><div> </div></div><div><div>On Athena Solaris or Linux, Firefox is the recommended and supported web browser for the upcoming fiscal year. <br> Athena on Linux: Firefox 2.0.0.x</div></div><div><div> Athena on Solaris 10: Firefox 2.0.0.x</div></div><div><div> Security updates provided by Athena update.</div></div></div></div><div><div><div><br></div><div>As a reminder, if you use certificates on multiple machines, you will need to get a new certificate for each machine. Please encourage those you work with to renew as well. More complete information and documentation is available at: <<a href="http://web.mit.edu/ist/help/cert/">http://web.mit.edu/ist/help/cert/</a>>.<br><br>We hope that providing this information and these recommendations now will allow our colleagues to plan accordingly. We remain confident that these web browser recommendations will be effective for the upcoming year and lessen the burden on software release efforts and desktop maintenance. Please feel free to share this announcement with colleagues who may be interested and should you have any pressing questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Software Release team at <<a href="mailto:swrt@mit.edu">swrt@mit.edu</a>>.<br><br><br>Deb Bowser<br>Team Leader - Software Release Team<br>Client Support Services<br>Information Services and Technology (IS&T)<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>Room N42-250k<br>Cambridge, MA 02139<br>617-253-3879<br><a href="mailto:bowser@mit.edu">bowser@mit.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>