ISG News has posted a new item, 'Maintenance Downtime of Mailserver on Monday
late afternoon'
To prepare the next big step in our migration to the new mail server we will
have a minor maintenance downtime of our SMTP server on Monday, the 1st of
February 2010, starting on 5pm. During the downtime it won't be possible to send
or receive new mails via SMTP nor will it be possible to use the mailing lists
administrative interface. Mails sent to the Department of Physics during the
downtime will be held back on the sending side and will be received afterwards.
Mails already stored on our IMAP or POP3 server are accessible during the
downtime though.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/01/28/maintenance-downtime-of-mailserver…
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Axel Beckert
beckert(a)phys.ethz.ch
ISG News has posted a new item, 'WebDAV gateway to our file servers'
If you're on the road a lot, you might be familiar with our webhome service
which provides universal access to your home directory. While this can be a
life-saver in some cases, there are a few limitations: a) you only get access to
your home directory, b) it's only viable for single-file operations. The
protocol of choice for remote file access across public firewalled networks is
WebDAV. We are now happy to announce a WebDAV gateway to our file servers.
Should you be interested in using this service, please read our documentation
page.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/01/25/webdav-gateway-to-our-file-servers/
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Best regards,
Christian Herzog
daduke(a)phys.ethz.ch
ISG News has posted a new item, 'Computer support during christmas holidays'
The ETH Zurich will be officially closed between Thursday, 24th of December
2009 and Sunday, 3th of January 2010. During this time, we can only provide
limited support. Please follow these rules to save us from superfluous work:
Switch off printers
Switch off your personal workstation and notebook except for the following:
Do not switch off our managed Linux workstations.
We will try to follow our e-mail, but you may also have luck and meet some of
us in our IRC channel.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/12/23/computer-support-during-christmas-…
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Best regards,
Schmid Patrick
schmid(a)phys.ethz.ch
ISG News has posted a new item, 'eGroupWare update'
Tomorrow Wednesday Dec 09, starting at 0730, we will upgrade our eGroupWare
collaboration software (https://groupware.phys.ethz.ch/) to a new revision. The
service will be down for about 30 min. The update addresses several known issues
and should restore the SyncML functionality.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/12/08/egroupware-update/
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Christian Herzog
daduke(a)phys.ethz.ch
ISG News has posted a new item, 'Short maintenance downtimes of Terminal, Mail
and Authentication Server'
There will be a semi-urgent maintenance reboot of our mail server and our
terminal server "plimpy" today, Friday, 2009-Dec-04, at 6pm. So if you are using
one of our thin clients, please save your work and log out before 6pm. Expected
downtime durations: approximately 15 minutes for the terminal server "plimpy"
and approximately 30 minutes for the mail server
Additionally there will be a restart of our LDAP authentication database at the
same time. This can cause logins on managed workstations or connections to file
servers to fail temporarily, but should take no more than a minute or so.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/12/04/short-maintenance-downtimes-of-ter…
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Axel Beckert
beckert(a)phys.ethz.ch
ISG News has posted a new item, 'Mail Server Migration Part 1: IMAP/POP3'
On Monday, November 16th, starting at 6pm we will migrate the D-PHYS IMAP and
POP3 server to new hardware. Since this also includes converting all 450 GB of
mailboxes on that server, the migration will take several hours.
During the migration it will not be possible to access any of the D-PHYS e-mail
services (receiving, sending or accessing your mails, webmail). E-mails sent to
D-PHYS during the migration will be held back on the sender's e-mail servers.
After the migration you may need to resynchronise your e-mail client (e.g.
Apple Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird) with the new IMAP server. Please read our
mail server migration wiki page in case you use one of the e-mail clients
mentioned above, use your own procmail filter rules or experience other problems
after the migration.
Over the next months we will move all mail services from our old mail server
"wiggis" to the new mail server step by step. The upcoming migration of the IMAP
and POP3 services is the first user-visible step in the whole migration
process.
To make sure you always connect to our current IMAP/POP3/SMTP/Webmail server
please do not use the host name "wiggis" anymore. Use only the following
hostnames, even when connecting to the IMAP server by SSH for instance:
IMAP (incoming mail server): imap.phys.ethz.ch
POP3 (incoming mail server): pop.phys.ethz.ch
Webmail: https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/
SMTP (outgoing mail server): mail.phys.ethz.ch
Webmail, SMTP (outgoing mail server) and the mailing lists will be migrated to
the new mail server in later steps which will be announced separately.
Our virus and spam filters have already been running successfully on the new
mail server for a few weeks.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/11/12/mail-server-migration-part-1/
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Axel Beckert
beckert(a)phys.ethz.ch
ISG News has posted a new item, 'Microsoft Security Bulletin for November 2009'
Last night Microsoft has released the Security Bulletin Summary for November,
2009.
If Automatic Update is not activated yet, then you must visit Microsoft Update
to install the Security Updates.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/11/11/microsoft-security-bulletin-for-no…
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Patrick Frei
frei(a)phys.ethz.ch
ISG News has posted a new item, 'Do not blindly trust mail'
The current wave of password phishing mails seems to provoke an unusually high
attention rate. People seem to think that mail allegedly coming from
help(a)ethz.ch may be genuine. The german text itself is so bad that its spammy
character is obvious to long time mail users.
Remember: any part of a mail can be faked. This is in the design of the mail
system and cannot be fixed without making mail usage a lot harder for
everybody. And even if we used a better system (like cryptographic signatures)
the rest of the world would not follow.
Therefore, be sceptic about any mail until the complete impression including
the writing style fits the picture. No IT support worth their salt will ask
you to reveal your password. And if they do they deserve to be ignored!
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/11/03/do-not-blindly-trust-mail/
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Elmar Heeb
heeb(a)phys.ethz.ch
ISG News has posted a new item, 'eGroupware upgrade'
Tomorrow Tue Nov 3, starting from 0730 we will upgrade our eGroupware service
to version EPL 9.1. Expected downtime: about one hour.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/11/02/egroupware-upgrade/
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Christian Herzog
daduke(a)phys.ethz.ch
ISG News has posted a new item, 'Linux Kernel Update'
We installed new linux kernels for our systems and the machines need to be
rebooted to run the new kernel. We will reboot the D-PHYS Linux Workstation
"plimpy" this evening after 06:00 pm, not all the workstations. Please log out
this evening before you go home, save all unsaved work and don't start any long
running jobs.
The terminal server "plimpy" is affected as well, please save all your open
documents and log out from your LTSP terminal. Thank you.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/10/23/linux-kernel-update-3/
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sengun
sengun(a)phys.ethz.ch