Hey, all. In reference to the announcement in May on upcoming changes in the environment (http://wp.me/p3jwfN-4e), I’d like to hold a town hall so you can get some first hand demos on how things will be happening, an update on where we are in the process, and get a chance to address any concerns or …

The new MCS website is now live at http://www.mcs.anl.gov.  This website is being run by CIS on their Drupal servers (the same infrastructure that runs www.anl.gov).  Sites beyond the first level, such as personal webpages and project home pages, are still being hosted where they were previously. More information will be coming soon as to how to …

Please see the enclosed notes from the Zimbra admin team. Thanks! Saturday, May 25, we will be upgrading the Zimbra servers: OS patching and maintenance will be done more memory will be added to each server Zimbra will be upgraded from 7.2.2 to 7.2.3 The maintenance window for this procedure will begin at 9am on …

Hey, all. We’ve got some upcoming changes in the MCS IT landscape over the rest of this calendar year, and it’s probably time to announce them to everyone at large. So, without further ado, let’s get right to it. 1) Argonne is phasing out Zimbra and migrating all Argonne Zimbra users to Microsoft Exchange. Over …

Please see this note regarding an outage of the on-site wireless network tomorrow morning. If you’re not going to be here, no worries. If you will be onsite, you can expect a brief interruption in wifi service. > On Saturday, May 18 from 7am-11am, We will perform system maintenance on the Argonne Unified Wireless Network …

At 3:00pm today the Jenkins Continuous Integration server (jenkins-ci.mcs.anl.gov) will be rebooted in order to patch a kernel vulnerability that is being exploited. The outage should last approximately 15 minutes. Only users of that system will be affected.

CIS would like to take the morning of Saturday, May 25th to upgrade the Zimbra server to the latest version 7 release. The outage would last from 9AM until 2PM, during which time you’d be unable to reach your mail or calendar. If this window poses a particular problem for you, please let us know …

This weekend is a CIS IT Maintenance weekend. Please see the details below. The network outage window is 4 hours, though actual interruptions will be brief and sporadic as routers and switches are rebooted. The systems are redundant, so interruptions should be brief, but an outage window is announced in case unforeseen problems occur. Please …