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Would you like to have the weather forecast on your calendar? If it speaks ICS (like iCal, Zimbra, Google, Lightning, etc.), you can. Visit Weather Underground and punch in the zip code for your location. On the resultant page, right-click the ICA…
Here’s the official announcement from the CIS Zimbra team: All: Saturday, March 14, we will be upgrading the Zimbra service: * the Zimbra application will be upgraded from 5.0.11 to 5.0.14 * OS patching and maintenance will be done The maintenance…
If you’d like a calendar of when the lab is closed, you have a few options. In Zimbra, add a new Calendar, click the “Synchronize appointments from remote calendar”, and enter the URL as: https://zimbra.anl.gov/home/[email protected]/Calen…
The Zimbra server upgrade scheduled for last weekend will now go ahead this Saturday at 9AM. The outage will last from 9AM until 1PM. An upside is a brand new release of the Zimbra server came out, so we’ll now be moving to Zimbra version 5.0.14. …
Some of you may have seen the news this week of a “reply-all storm” that took out the State Department’s e-mail system. It’s a real problem that can hit any organization, and there are easy ways to avoid it. Here are some really simple tips to mak…
As part of the effort to retire the old web servers, the Systems blog has moved to its new home on press.mcs.anl.gov. You can still get to it via http://www.mcs.anl.gov/systems/blog but the new URL is http://press.mcs.anl.gov/systems. If you use R…
Hey, folks, we’re planning to upgrading the wiki servers on Tuesday. Please see this attached note from Ken. As always, if this presents a problem, please let us know and we’ll reschedule. All, We’re going to move the MCS core wiki services to new…
Hey, folks! We’re in the process of rolling out the new mailing list server, and to give it a good test run, I’ve set up a new list. In the spirit of the [email protected] mailing list (which is used for trading tips, tricks, and general discu…
The Zimbra upgrade portion of today’s work is complete. The network reorganization is mostly done, expect an all-clear later. Expect a brief Zimbra outage tomorrow morning while the disk server gets a firmware upgrade.
With the new server upgrade in place, you can now wirelessly sync your iPhone with Zimbra, and never tether it to your computer again for Contacts and Calendar syncing — you’ll still connect it for iPod Music/Video/etc syncs. First, the caveats: …
