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!

The original schedule of beginning the mail migrations has been pushed back a bit due to the project lead for the migration expecting to begin a brief paternity leave right around when we’d planned to start the migrations. As such, we’re currently targeting the migrations to begin on November 4. I’ll be shifting the schedule …

Hi, We will be upgrading and moving our WordPress 3 installation to a new server beginning at 11:30am on Thursday, October 10th. We expect this to take no longer than 30-60 minutes. During this time, all WordPress 3 blogs will be temporarily unavailable. The following sites will be affected: • http://press3.mcs.anl.gov/ (and all subsites) • …

CIS is seeking input on their proposed 4 quarterly maintenance weekends for the coming FY. If the dates below post an issue you know of, let me know. There will be reminders sent as each date approaches should situations change in the intervening time. Thanks! As you’re probably aware, CIS schedules four maintenance weekends every …

Hello all, After a [much!] longer than anticipated downtime the Apple File Server named silver.mcs.anl.gov is back on the network and available. Thank you all for your patience with this and I’m very sorry for the inconvenience, we migrated up 2 major OS releases and to new higher capacity hardware. It should feel pretty snappy. …

The planned maintenance is (mostly) done, with all externally exposed servers now back. Things went well. Only the upgrade to our Mac file server (silver) is taking longer than planned and likely won’t be done until tomorrow. Thus endeth the maintenance haiku festival on twitter.com/mcssys. Thanks for your patience, all.

Hey, folks. Just a reminder this work is happening this weekend. I’m including a brief summary below, but you should see the following blog posts for further details. I’ve been updating them as appropriate. http://mcssys.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/update-cels-it-maintenance-weekend-928-929/ http://wp.me/p3jwfN-4O From 8AM until 8PM on Saturday, September 28th, we will be performing necessary maintenance on a number of servers …

We’ve fixed the issue with repocafe and all repos should be back and operational. Please report any issues to systems. Thanks! — Craig