Hi, everyone. Trying to keep the announcement emails to a minimum, so here’s a twofer. Maintenance Weekend Feb 19-21 As previously announced, we’ll be performing some disruptive maintenance this weekend, which means there are some aspects of the environment that will be unavailable for various portions of the weekend. We’ve got other updates we are …

Hi, everyone, happy Friday! Hope you’re staying warm! First up, thanks to those who were able to attend the first GCE Town Hall this afternoon. You’ll find the slides and recording at anl.box.com/v/StaceTalksANL in the 2021 directory. The next Town Hall is Tuesday, Feb 9 at 3PM. See virtualhelpdesk.cels.anl.gov/2021/01/20/weekly-cels-systems-town-halls/ for more info and joining details. …

Please see the below announcement from BIS. WHAT ARE WE DOING? BIS is asking anyone who uses Thunderbird as their default mail client to setup their account with native OAuth2 instead of OWL. WHY ARE WE DOING IT? The official end date for the OWL plugin is 03/06/21. The newest versions of Thunderbird now natively …

Sorry about this. In a master stroke of timing, my network has been up and down all morning, and my backup network isn’t resilient enough to host a bluejeans session through. We’ll pick up next week, Feb 5 at 2PM.

Hi, everyone!  As we roll out more services in GCE and start the process of retiring end-of-life servers and services, I wanted to make sure the lines of communication were wide open so you can understand what it means for you, and we can understand what your concerns are. First up, I’m generally pretty available …

Hi, everyone! As part of our continuing push to make GCE a full service computing environment for our researchers, and to get to our goal of retiring old and outdated servers and services, we’re delighted to announce that our new Gitlab service in GCE is now live. Server: git.cels.anl.gov Documentation: virtualhelpdesk.cels.anl.gov/docs/service-catalog/developer-and-collaboration-tools-and-services/gitlab/ This new server is …

Around 5:30 this morning the virtual machine that serves wordpress.cels.anl.gov had a failure. We restored service at 8:41, but we want to put a longer-term solution in place to prevent this in the future. This requires a reboot of the server. It shouldn’t take more than 5-10 minutes, but I wanted to provide a heads-up. …

BIS is aware of the issue and is working on rectifying it. See vector.anl.gov in the “News” section (bottom center) for more info. Wee, happy new year!

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Hi again, everyone! This notice is of particular interest to the folks who work in building 240 (or will do so again once this whole thing is in the past). On Friday morning, Dec 11, BIS will begin converting the CELS Canon printer/copiers to BIS management. You’ll get a separate notice from them about this, …