Hi, folks. We’ve had a few changes in the group since the new year, and I’m overdue in letting you know about them. Let’s dive right in: Welcome BIO: At the end of January, BIO’s IT admin Rocky Patel left Argonne for another opportunity. With that, our group took on supporting the BIO division along …

Due to the weather, we’re going to be closing the CELS service desk at lunch today and work remotely for the rest of the day. That means no walk-ups and phone calls will go to Voice Mail. However we’ll be monitoring [email protected] and will be handling any issues we can remotely. Thanks!

Monday’s power work will not generally affect servers run by us. Systems Administrators of affected systems will notify their users directly, but the affected systems are Mira, Beagle, TRACC, and some portions of Magellan. The power outage in December took out much of the data center, but left most of the office side of the …

For those of your in B240 and are supported by us in CELS Systems, a couple of notes: Your desktop will almost certainly lose power and reboot. Before you leave on Friday, you should cleanly shut down your machine. Upon your return on Monday, even if you did cleanly shut it down, it’s possible it …

Here’s the official list of affected services: http://today.anl.gov/2016/01/it-maintenance-weekend-jan-15-17/ Note that Single Sign On (SSO) which allows external apps to authenticate against Argonne accounts (like Box, Workday, etc.) is being temporarily migrated offsite so that it will remain up during the network outage. And CIS is confident this outage won’t last more than 15 minutes. Thanks!

This is a reminder of the outage happening this weekend. The takeaway is still the same, anything behind the lab’s firewall will be unavailable for a brief time tomorrow morning, with some periods of up and down time throughout the morning. Things should all be normal by noon. The official story from CIS is that …

CIS Maintenance weekend is the weekend after this coming one. I normally forward these announcements on to you, but I noticed some possible errors in the list of affected services, and I want to get some clarification from them on it. I’ll send a complete list when I have it, however based on the fact …

Some of you may be getting very obvious phishing notices saying your anl.gov mail account is over limit. ANL Cyber has been notified, and you can safely ignore and delete the message. Thanks, and happy new year!

In working with the ANL web team, we were finally able to locate the issue and correct it yesterday afternoon by around 5:20. A change made globally to www.anl.gov (which is where the main MCS website is hosted) to bring mobile support to the website and make some font changes had unexpected behavior on how …

Changes within the ANL webserver content seems to have broken the MCS website (hosted on their server). We’ve alerted CIS to the issue and are awaiting word on what happened and how to bring things back quickly.