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March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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

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Mail Upgrade in progress

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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.

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Zimbra certificate issue, Also upgrade news

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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 …

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Mail Upgrade postponed

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

We’re postponing the upgrade to the Zimbra server. In the run-up to the migration, we discovered an issue that we had not previously identified in the plan. It’s not a big issue, mind you, but rather than improvise something, we’re going to make s…

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Mail outage, June 7 2008, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

It looks like we’ll be able to go ahead with the server upgrade I sent mail about earlier this week. You may get another notice from CIS on this, but here is the current plan: Upgrade to ZCS (Zimbra Collaboration Suite) software v5.0.6 from 5.0.2 …

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Dispatch 2008.4: The Aftermath

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

(There’s a beer theme going here, bear with me. It’s American Craft Beer Week: http://www.americancraftbeerweek.org.) Well, folks, I’m past due for my general update on All Things Systems. I’d like to make this a longer note, but I’m pressed for t…

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Interesting Read

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/whats-the-worst-e-mail-mistake-you-ever-made/ Good post by one of the Freakanomics authors, and a cautionary tale in this day and age of automatic address completion. I’m sure almost every one of us…

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Migration Status

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Ugh, this is a difficult mail to write. Those migration accounts we created, the ones that took so much time moving mail automatically from cliff (old server) to zimbra (new server)… the accounts we spent so much time creating in an effort to ma…

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Migration Mostly Done

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

We’ve got just over 60 accounts that need their final merge done by hand, preferably by the account owner since some judgement calls may need to be made in terms of folder names and such. But, as of right now, all mail is hitting the new server. W…

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Final migration steps

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Docs are coming shortly. If you’re one of the users who isn’t seeing all your mail in one place, you’ll get an e-mail from me detailing what you need to do to merge things into one. If you feel you’d like help doing that, we’re going to divide and…

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