CELS Virtual Helpdesk
CELS Shared Services Systems Group
BIS will be sending out a communication on this, but I thought I’d let you all know how to fix this. If you do not want every meeting invite to include a Teams link, follow these steps: Login to https://outlook.office365.com/mail/inbox in your web browser. Click the Settings gear icon in the upper right portion of …
We’re still investigating what’s causing this, but recently Outlook started automatically adding a Teams link to all meetings you create in Outlook via Outlook for Mac (old or new), and Outlook Web Application (OWA). This is happening independent of whether you have specified “All meetings are online” in your preferences. Until this is rectified, when …
Hi, everyone!
It’s that time of year again, when we all give thanks. Me? I’m thankful for a number of things, including having such a wonderful group of coworkers to work with and support, that I get to spend these holidays with my family, and that my Airpods survived a trip through the washing machine. I’ll let you all decide on if that’s an honest sorting. But enough with that, on with the ever-so-important announcements. (more…)
(Note, this is not referring to ALCF, LCRC, or other independent systems in the data center.) The GCE and Legacy systems in CELS that were powered off for the power work are almost all back. We are working on issues with compute-03 and compute-04 in GCE. Aside from those computers, if you have systems that …
We’ve seen increased reports of messages improperly being labeled as Junk and ending up in people’s Junk folder in Outlook. I’ve raised the issue with BIS who are asking Microsoft about the issue. In the interim, if you see something in your Junk folder that shouldn’t be there, if you label it as “not junk” …
Today’s work on GCE is complete. The environment will stay up through the weekend, however, the compute nodes based in 240 will be unavailable until Monday. Next, at 5PM we will take everything in the data center, including the Legacy MCS computing environment, offline. Thanks, all!
Hi, everyone. Here’s a link to previous announcement: virtualhelpdesk.cels.anl.gov/2021/11/12/upcoming-service-outages-november-19-through-nov-22/ As a summary of the activities, here’s what you can expect tomorrow: 8:30AM: Most GCE resources will go offline. GCE login nodes will remain operational as a pass-through to Legacy or other systems. During this outage window, we will be powering down, removing, and moving the …
Hi, everyone.
I mentioned this in the last note, but want to make sure we’re clear on what’s going to be up and running vs. what’s not next weekend. I’ll try to keep it succinct.
As Building 240 occupants are aware, the building will lose power on Saturday, November 20. This includes the data center. There’s a bunch of work we’re scheduling to coincide with this and take advantage of the forced outage. Please note, this notice serves to provide outage info specifically for general CELS services in both the General Computing Environment (GCE) and the Legacy MCS network. Announcements related to LCRC, ALCF, and other systems in the room will be handled by their respective support teams, and those timelines may differ from what I mention below.
Hi, everyone. Sorry I’m a little late with this update. There’s a fair amount in here so I want to start with a very high level summary so you can decide how much you want to read.
We’re overdue for a newsletter, and there’s a lot to cover, so I’m going to do this in two parts. Today’s will be short and sweet, since I’m going to focus on some staffing changes you need to be aware of. Tim Livolsi is going to be off on parental leave through October and a …
