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Why your mail forwarding might be broken, and you may not even know it.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hi, again. Time for another story in the vein of Technology is Ruining Everything and Why Can’t Things Just Be the Way They Were and Get These Kids Off My Lawn. Sorry, went off on a bit of a tangent there. Let’s start again. If you forward your mail to another site (like Gmail, Yahoo …

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COMPLETED GitLab maintenance window

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Maintenance of our GitLab services has been completed. Please let us know if you encounter any issues by emailing [email protected] – CELS Systems

STARTING GitLab maintenance window

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Beginning work to update our GitLab services at https://gitlab.cels.anl.gov and https://xgitlab.cels.anl.gov Services will be disrupted during this maintenance window. Service is expected to be restored by 13:00 CDT and may be available sooner than that. We will send a followup email upon completion of the work. – CELS Systems

Maintenance window for GitLab services, 2018-10-31 12:00 – 13:00 CDT

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been planned for Wednesday, 2018-10-31 from 12:00 to 13:00 CDT. GitLab services provided by gitlab.cels.anl.gov and xgitlab.cels.anl.gov will be unavailable during maintenance. Service is expected to be restored by 13:00 CDT, and may be available sooner than that. If this window poses undue inconvenience please let us …

Upcoming Mailman mailing list changes

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

What we’re doing: Changing mailman configs to use a "From:" header of the listname rather than the sender. This change will happen on all mailing lists hosted by CELS Systems. We will also make that setting the default for any new list created. When we are doing it: Monday, October 29, between 3 and 5 …

DMARC and you (with bonus story on mailing lists)

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hey, everybody! So you’ve seen a couple of announcements about the lab’s setting “DMARC” policy on outgoing mail. If you’re a mail wonk, you get it. If you’re not, and I’m sure most of you aren’t, I’m going to explain a few things about it and what it means to you. I’m really trying to …

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A note about the new version of Dayforce

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hi, everyone! First of all, if you currently use Dash (https://dash.anl.gov) to access Dayforce and are happy with that, just stop reading. There’s nothing of interest to you here and you’re using the approved and supported method for accessing Dayforce. Okay, if you’re still reading, perhaps you don’t like using Dash for that, or you …

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Vulnerabilty Reports for VPN and Wireless Connections

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hi, everyone. From time to time, you may receive an e-mail from the lab’s vulnerability scanner telling you about a vulnerability on your laptop.  These are important, and you should contact us ([email protected]) with any questions you might have about them.  But I want to focus on a very specific one I’m seeing a lot …

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New Help Desk Operation Procedures

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hi, everybody. Due to staffing changes and space constraints, we’re going to be making some changes to the concept of the “Help Desk” for CELS. First up, we need to convert the existing location into a regular office. That’s happening this afternoon (September 17). With the loss of that location as a help desk, I’d …

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COMPLETED GitLab maintenance window

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Maintenance of our GitLab services has been completed. Please let us know if you encounter any issues by emailing [email protected] Merge request code review should be working properly again. – CELS Systems

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