The CELS IT team has scheduled a maintenance window for Confluence, our collaborative wiki platform hosted at https://apps.cels.anl.gov/confluence. Maintenance Window Starting Monday, July 20, 2026 at 8:00 AM CDT and ending Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 10:00 AM CDT, Confluence will be completely unavailable. Why is this happening? This maintenance is required to migrate the …

If you’ve ever submitted an IT request at CELS, you may have noticed the process could be more intuitive. This summer, we’re making a change — and it’s one we think you’ll appreciate. Why the Change? Argonne’s enterprise IT group (BIS) is transitioning away from ServiceNow, the platform that has handled IT service requests across …

CELS IT is upgrading the mailing list service from Mailman 2 to Mailman 3 at the end of July. For most list owners and subscribers, this will be a routine transition — your lists will keep working and you’ll gain access to a modern web interface and expanded platform capabilities. If you’ve built something on …

CELS IT is planning a scheduled maintenance outage affecting services hosted in the building 240 data center on Monday, May 18, 2026. Why: The 240 Building facilities team is performing cooling capacity maintenance that requires all equipment in the north data hall to be powered down. Timeline: Monday, May 18 at 2:00 PM CT — …

The next Business and Information Services (BIS) information technology (IT) maintenance weekend will start at 5 p.m. CT on Friday, Jan. 9, and continue through noon Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. Please backup your work prior to 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 9, as rolling, intermittent, network outages will affect most networked buildings on the Lemont …

Back in September, when Apple released macOS 26 “Tahoe,” we asked the CELS community to hold off on upgrading. We appreciate your patience and cooperation, which allowed us the time to perform crucial compatibility testing. We are happy to announce that our validation process is complete! CELS IT has officially cleared macOS Tahoe 26 for …

CELS has been planning on adding MFA to all of its services and the next step along this path is to require Duo MFA for the CELS Accounts System (accounts.cels.anl.gov) starting November 17, 2025.  Note that nothing will happen until November 17; at that time it will force you to enroll in MFA unless you …

compute-386-08.cels.anl.gov aka compute-08.cels.anl.gov will be taken offline November 3rd and the disk will be wiped. If you have any files on this server (under /scratch), please make a backup copy before then. The files under /home and /nfs are network filesystems, so no data will be lost from those. We’ll be using this server to test …

System Maintenance Notice When: Tuesday, 10/21/2025 Time: 7:00 AM to 12:00 PM CDT What: OS and application updates The CELS Systems Group will conduct OS and application updates for the systems listed below. During this maintenance window, these systems will be intermittently unavailable as we apply updates and restart them. We expect to restore them …

Hi, everyone! Some changes are coming to how you authenticate to your Slack workspaces hosted by CELS.  To retain our ability to use Slack, we must enforce multi-factor authentication for all users.  This is going into effect beginning on October 20th for all workspaces at https://grid-cels-anl.enterprise.slack.com/. Guest accounts already require 2 factor authentication, so nothing …