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…

If you are using an Argonne-owned Mac laptop in MCS, CELS, LCF, CI, or IGSB and would like to be part of the lab’s Mountain Lion purchase (for installing now or later), please send a note to [email protected] indicating whether you want the clie…

As part of the larger network upgrade the lab is doing, one of the border routers will be replaced from 7PM through 11PM on Thursday. Because it is our backup link, the 4 hour work window should have no real impact on operations, and the expectati…

stomp.mcs.anl.gov has a bad hard drive. We are shutting this host down until we can replace it. In the meantime, please use one of the other compute servers such as thwomp.mcs.anl.gov or crush.mcs.anl.gov. [EDIT: The machine is now back.]