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!

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 …