For those who have a need to access internal-only sites via the web, and don’t want to install or use the Cisco VPN client, there’s a web-based VPN proxy you can use to access these internal sites. It’s not quite a production service at this point…

Zimbra 5.0.9 is released, and will be the installed version on Saturday. After the install, login to the web interface at https://zimbra.anl.gov, go to Preferences, and try out some of the new themes. The Yahoo and Zmail themes are great for peopl…

Executive summary for those who don’t want to read anything beyond the bare details: On Saturday, August 23rd, both the MCS Mail & Calendar (aka Zimbra) and the MCS Production network will be undergoing maintenance and will be unavailable from 6AM…

Hey, folks. Hope everyone’s having a great summer. I was going to put this note into the next Dispatch from the Geeks, but I’ve had some requests on the matter recently, so I figure I’d send along this note right now. Today’s lesson comes in the f…

The dry details: Zimbra upgrade this weekend is complete. It seems to be faster and the issues we’d seen with dropped IMAP connections and blank e-mail copies seems to be solved, let us know if this is otherwise. There are new features in the new …

Took a little longer, but we’re back. We’re still monitoring things, but everything looks normal. I’m going to run some tests on some known bugs we wanted to fix, and I’ll post an update later with some of the new features you can now use. Thanks …

Hit a small snag. It shouldn’t be much longer, probably another 60 to 90 minutes. See the CIS outage page for details.

Short status update for those who may not have seen the notices or forgotten, the mail server upgrade is under way. Things should be back by 1:00 PM Central. Stay tuned.

First up, some of you would have noticed an issue on 6/11 getting to Zimbra. The very short version of the story is that in anticipation of our existing SSL certificate expiring, a new one was ordered. Unbeknownst to anyone here, when they issued …