CELS Virtual Helpdesk
CELS Shared Services Systems Group
We have a (probably minor) disk error on one of our mail relay servers. It’s a small enough problem that we’re comfortable waiting to fix it, but serious enough that we want to get it soon. So we’ll be performing some maintenance on the affected m…
Ken Raffenetti, our newest member of the group, has spent a significant amount of time developing and updating Hostbase. It’s now far more robust and more suited to the needs of the group for its administration tasks. However, we realize that our …
We’re still working our way through the new wireless, finding and fixing problems. One that has reared its head is that it does not play nice with Parallels. Well, more to the point, it doesn’t play well with multiple IP addresses for a single wir…
We’re at the end of day two of the new wireless network. First up, I want to thank all our users for being so understanding as we work through the kinks that weren’t able to be found in our initial testing. Seriously, you are a fantastic bunch of …
This short update will detail some important changes hitting the environment, plus highlight a project from the past year you may not have known about. Wireless Upgrade, Wednesday January 31. You may have noticed some nifty gadgetry on the ceiling…
I have a new Dispatch I’m preparing, but wanted to get this out as soon as possible. Beth Cerny-Patino is joining Argonne today as our new Web Developer. She’ll be working on the web presences for MCS, the CI and other CLS related sites. Previousl…
Can you believe it’s been two months since the last dispatch? Wow, where did the time go? This dispatch, our focus is on some minor updates made in the environment, a hint on how to stay abreast of changes we make, answering some questions on the …
The server mailgw.mcs.anl.gov has a new SSL certificate. More mail clients will inherently trust this certificate without having to be trained to do so, since it’s a certificate from a typically trusted source. Eudora 6.2 doesn’t seem to automatic…
The web templates have been updated to be more user friendly, and provide a more accurate “Last Updated” value for the footer. The instructions have been updated. All the values a user needs to change in the template are now at the top of the file…
The VPN FAQ has been updated and moved to the new server. ANL’s going to incorporate our profiles into the build, and it gets us out of having to duplicate their work. The downside is the download requires an Argonne Domain account. If this limita…
