Due to power work being performed in the data center the following computer servers were unexpectedly taken down and will remain down for the duration of the work which is expected to last approximately 3.5 hours: octopus.mcs.anl.gov octagon.mcs.anl.gov cg.mcs.anl.gov There was also a brief outage of login1 and login2.mcs.anl.gov due to the work. We apologize …

We have fixed the problem with attachments and images, as well as the firewall issues. Access to https://collab.cels.anl.gov should work as expected. I’ve updated the banner on collab.mcs.anl.gov to point to the new site, and we will later revert the old site to the pointer to the new URL. If you find any issues with …

We discovered attachments and images did not migrate with the site. As such, we’re bringing collab.mcs.anl.gov back for now, and turning off collab.cels.anl.gov. For the time being, please consider collab.mcs.anl.gov read only. If we don’t have a fix in place within the next couple of hours, we’ll fully release collab.mcs.anl.gov back to read/write and take …

Some issues remain on the upgrade from collab.mcs.anl.gov (Confluence v4) to collab.cels.anl.gov (Confluence v5). Primarily, the firewall exceptions to allow access from offsite are not yet in place. I’ve put in a request to have that done as soon as possible, and with luck should be in place before too long. Secondly, any custom images …

As part of our plan to merge the contents of Confluence running on xcollab.mcs.anl.gov and collab.mcs.anl.gov we will be moving https://collab.mcs.anl.gov/ to https://collab.cels.anl.gov/ and upgrading the Confluence software from 4.3 to 5.7.1 This hostname migration will occur late Saturday May 2nd (2015-05-02). During that time, it will not be possible to update or add pages …

This message applies to the people who are connecting to Dayforce via rdp.mcs.anl.gov rather than some other method. If what you’re doing is working for you, you can safely disregard this message. Recently, a Google Chrome update disabled native support of NPAPI plugins. This affects a number of plugins, including Silverlight, which is required by …

[Editor’s note: This didn’t get posted to the blog when it was sent on 3/27.] Hi all, Summer is approaching and so it’s time to order any new equipment needed  for the influx of visitors. Below are the specs on our recommended equipment for this summer. Feel free to request a desktop,  monitor or both …

We’ve revised and updated the laptop support policy for CELS in order to address some holes in our process from a cybersecurity standpoint, and to offer those who may not want a fully managed machine some avenue to receive support and notification for patching and other security issues. You can find the updated policy here: …

This work has been completed without incident. Thanks

On Saturday, February 21 at around 12 Noon we will be rebooting the Macintosh file server named “bronze” in order to apply some important software updates. We anticipate a very short downtime window, but in order to give us some room to take care of any unanticipated issues that might arise I am setting the …