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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: …
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…
