CIS reports the issues are resolved. The connection issues with OWA have subsided and CIS is looking into the root cause. Please contact the CIS Service Desk at 2-9999 option 2 if you’re still experiencing issues. — Craig From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stacey, Craig J. Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 10:27 AM To: …

Please see the below announcement from CIS. IT Admins, CIS is experiencing connectivity issues with Outlook OWA. We are working to resolve these issues and will provide an update when more information becomes available.

We’ve brought the database server back online, and restarted all the related services. We are investigating the cause of the outage and will have details soon. We regret the inconvenience. Happy Mother’s Day.

Our primary database server has gone offline and this is affecting our ticketing system, WordPress installations and other web applications. We are working on the issue and will announce when things are back.

Hi All, Over the next several business days, we will be performing maintenance on the following MCS compute servers with an outage window expected from 9am to 3pm. Wednesday, May 7th: crank.mcs.anl.gov steamroller.mcs.anl.gov Thursday, May 8th: grind.mcs.anl.gov churn.mcs.anl.gov Friday, May 9th: trounce.mcs.anl.gov octagon.mcs.anl.gov Monday, May 12th: vanquish.mcs.anl.gov thrash.mcs.anl.gov Tuesday, May 13th: octopus.mcs.anl.gov During this maintenance …

Hey, just a reminder that this audit (mentioned previously here: http://mcssys.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/be-diligent-in-protecting-your-account-data-and-equipment/) is happening. We always expect you to be on your guard, so this is just a friendly reminder to pay extra attention. Thanks!

Received the following from CIS: Dayforce reports that the issues we have reported have been resolved. Thank you, Jack

In case you’re having issues with dayforce: After scheduled Dayforce maintenance today we have noticed intermittent issues with trying to connect or manage reports: a) Users login and sit at the attached screen with the greenbar showing Dayforce/HCM loading, but it never connects. Killing the browser and then re-logging in to a new browser instance …

Hi all, Our compute servers are due for some maintenance and reconfiguring. We’re going to start this process by doing a single one, and based on that decide the schedule for the rest. Pay special attention – /sandbox will not be preserved. This maintenance will also become a quarterly thing on our compute servers, including …

The lab is looking into what it’s going to do for a conferencing solution going forward. We currently use Adobe Connect (which is up for renewal at end of the fiscal year) as well as ReadyTalk (which is going away at the end of the FY). If you have any thoughts on what you do …