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Zimbra Status Update

by Stacey, Craig

From CIS: As many of you know, the CIS Zimbra service has been “mis-behaving” since roughly 10pm on Tuesday, October 12th. The symptoms of this behavior: poor responsiveness leading to an unresponsive system – typically within 20-30 minutes of las…

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Zimbra problems

by Stacey, Craig

The Zimbra mail and calendar service is having serious service issues. Work has been going on all night, and engineers at Zimbra are helping. At this point we have no ETA on when things will be stable. More details as they emerge.

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Zimbra Outage Saturday, July 17

by Stacey, Craig

CIS will be performing an update to the Zimbra service on Saturday between 9AM and 5PM on Saturday, July 17. During this window, you will not be able to receive new mail, send mail through Zimbra, or check for mail on the server. Also, Calendars w…

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State of Systems Talk 2010

by Stacey, Craig

Here’s the talk I gave in early June on the state of systems. Alas, the video didn’t quite make it — audio was too quiet and it cut out before the end. But if you want to talk about anything you see in there, please come see me! Systems Talk 2010

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Social Networking Safety

by Stacey, Craig

Let me tell a couple of true stories of how social networking can be used to cause you and your friends harm. The first happened to a friend of mine. He’s sitting on his computer, browsing facebook, and he gets a chat request from a friend. This f…

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Mail Outage, 1/23/10, 9 AM – 2 PM.

by Stacey, Craig

Hey, folks. Just a friendly reminder that we???ll be upgrading the Zimbra mail and calendar server on Saturday. Your inbox, calendar, and webmail will not be accessible between 9AM and 2PM. No mail will be lost, only delayed during the outage window…

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MCS Systems User Satisfaction Survey

by Stacey, Craig

Hey, gang. Communication is an important thing. Without it, we’d all just be a bunch of meat sticks making random noises and gestures at each other. A part of communication that’s important to any service organization is feedback. Sometimes, that …

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We're moved!

by Stacey, Craig

Wow, what a day. Most of us got here over 15 hours ago, some of us are still here. I’m a little punch drunk, so I’ll give a quick summary and perhaps a better post mortem later in the week. All equipment was moved without incident. Boyer-Rosene (t…

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The Big Move

by Stacey, Craig

It’s here! It’s underway! Things are moving! Move II: October 16-18 Full Disclosure (already down) Breadboard (already down) kbT compute cluster (already down) I2U2 resources (already down) LCRC DDN storage system (already down) MCS Core Computing…

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Mail Slowness

by Stacey, Craig

An over-aggressive DOE scanner spam-bombed us this afternoon, bringing our mail service to a crawl as three mail servers tried to deal with over 40,000 e-mail messages sent within a matter of minutes. We believe we got it all stopped, and all the …

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