There’s a phishing mail many received here (enclosed below) that claims we need you to send your username and password. While it’s clever enough to mention our Zimbra server and get our anl.gov domain right, you all are smart enough to know we wil…

The slowness on he mailman server was traced to some malformed messages causing memory issues earlier his afternoon. We expect all mailing list mail to work normally.

We’re currently debugging a problem with our Mailman server. Mail to mailing lists hosted on that server is delayed right now. We hope it should be back soon, will send an announcement when it’s fixed.

Just a heads up that docs.google.com is temporarily being blocked by the ANL firewalls to prevent password exposure from an email phishing attack today. If you can’t reach google docs, that’s why. Not sure how long the block will last at this poin…

CIS is performing network upgrades on the border router this weekend. This is similar to the work that was performed in July, however this time they have learned from the problems during that upgrade and do not expect any outage to be longer than …

With our new account management system and improvements in how it interfaces with ANL’s HR system, we have made some changes in how account sponsorships are handled. Previously, we required anyone who was not a regular employee in MCS to have an a…

During CIS’s maintenance weekend (August 17-19), they will be upgrading the IronPort spam appliance that filters all our mail. One of the things it does right now is take mail that it’s flagged as spam, and puts it into a quarantine. You may have …

CIS is planning to install an update to the Zimbra server on Sunday, August 19th. This will involve a downtime of 3-4 hours starting at 9AM, during which time you will not be able to check mail or calendars. Depending on your setup, you may not be…

We will be upgrading the Confluence server (collab.mcs.anl.gov) software on Monday evening at 5pm. Users may see an outage of up to 1 hour while the work is done. We are hopeful this upgrade will resolve some page edit restriction bugs we are seei…

We’re proud to unveil a new service that people with MCS workstation accounts can take advantage of. It’s a self-service SVN repository. We aren’t targeting this as a replacement for existing SVN repositories, instead it’s geared towards those qui…