The next CIS maintenance weekend will be Friday January 17 through Sunday January 19, 2014. The scope of the work to be done on this weekend is still being determined. Please let us know if there are particular concerns you have with this window. Thanks! — Craig

Hey, gang! At my request, CIS took a break from the migrations while I was away on vacation over Thanksgiving. Now that I’m back, we’re going to continue them up until the break, then pick up again in the new year. The plan remains as it was — you’ll get a notification a couple of …

Salutations, In coordination with the Cyber security office, our wordpress infrastructure is back online as of 14:40 this afternoon and we have restored all the wordpress sites listed in the initial message. Very fortunately we were able to restore them to a known clean state from backups that were made at 01:00:00 11/21/20213 (one AM …

Greetings, We regret to announce that we needed to disable access to some of the web sites that we manage. At this time we are investigating suspicious activity on many of our WordPress web sites. For the time being the following sites are unavailable for web access, any attempt to access any of these sites …

A phishing mail is making the rounds purporting to be regarding uchicago webmail. This is a malicious mail and should be disregarded. If you did follow the link and put any information in, please let me know. Thanks.

Adobe announced that the user data of nearly 150 million people was exposed to hackers. I’ve included a link to an article on the break-in from The Guardian. The database of lost information is huge, however, there’s a tool to see if your data has been compromised that’s linked in the Guardian article. I’m waiting …

Please see the announcement below. Short story is that next weekend the following services will be down for some portion of the weekend: Wifi, VPN, and CIS Windows Servers. Also, you may see warnings on wireless certificates come the following Monday. This is to be expected. Thank you. Major maintenance activities are planned for the …

Starting next week, we’ll begin the process of migrating users from Zimbra to Exchange. The process will take place over the coming weeks and wrap up around the holiday break at end of year. When you’re next on the schedule, you’ll get a notification a couple of business days beforehand letting you know, another note …

Being pre-emptive here (since we’ve had one already)… don’t ask systems about upgrades to OS X 10.9 yet. We don’t have any answers. It was just announced, including the revolutionary pricing of “free”. If you install it on your own, godspeed to you. Your support is the Apple Store genius bar. We’ll make an announcement …

This work should be completed.Wordpress was moved to a new server and upgraded to 3.6.1 As always, please let us know if you encounter any issues. Thanks!