AD DS Maintenance

Please see the following Information Technology Services (ITS) maintenance notice:

Date: Dec. 21, 2023

Start Time: 8 p.m.
End Time: Midnight

The following work is being completed:  Due to recent malicious activity targeted at our infrastructure ITS will be taking the following actions:

  • Disabling NTLM on all Active Directory Certificate Services Servers. Kerberos will continue to work for authentication to this service. 
  • The legacy AWSPKI infrastructure, which is not in use, will be retired at this time as well. 
  • The firewall rule that allows outbound SMBv1 and v2 from the domain controllers for printer discovery will be tightened as well to only allow SMBv3.  

All affected groups: AD DS ad.wsu.edu and mgthub.local forest users

Duration of impact: No impact is anticipated for users. 

All processes affected: Active Directory Domain Services and Active Directory Certificate Services

Follow up steps customers need to take: None

Contact: Geoff Collins (geoff.collins@wsu.edu).  Please contact ITS Network Operations (509-335-0404) for escalation.