The problem is solved since about 11:00h.

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Since today, Friday, 02.05.2025 there is a malfunction when using the CISCO VPN connection (vpn.desy.de). The connection is sometimes very slow, cannot be established or is unstable.

We are working on a solution with highest priority.

Trouble caused by: Still being inverstigated

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The problem has been solved.

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The cause of the malfunction is a power outage in the entire building 22a. The responsible department has already been informed. According to current information, however, it is not possible to solve the power failure before Monday.

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As of Thursday, 01.05.2025 approx. 22:00h, a total outage of the data network in building 22a occurs.

We are working on a solution with highest priority.

Trouble caused by: Power outage in the building

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The problem has been solved.

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Since this morning, Thursday, 24.04.2025, it is not possible to access software repositories on gitlab.desy.de via HTTPS, if the connection is established only with username and password.

Connections via HTTPS using an access token are still working, as well as connections via SSH. So these options should be used as an alternative.

We are working on a solution.
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The problem has been solved.

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Since today, Thursday, 10.4.2025, 12:00h, it is not possible to set up eduroam connections.

Existing and authenticated connections to the eduroam WLAN are not affected by this.

We are working on a solution with highest priority.

Trouble caused by: Authentication problems due to lack of answers from the DFN

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The problem has been solved.

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Yesterday, Monday, 07.04.2025 until 12:30h, there have been network problems in building 3.

Trouble caused by: Problems with the network switch

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Since today,Wednesday Mittwoch, 26.3.2025, about 09:00h, the central storage service DESY Sync and Share was not reachable.

Trouble caused by: Unkown

The problem has been solved.

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As of today, Monday, 3.3.2025, approx. 11:00 a.m., it is not possible to search for people in the web phonebook https://www.desy.de/pbook?lang=ger.

Alternatively, the phonebook app https://pbookapp.desy.de/ can be used.

We are working on a solution to the problem with the highest priority.

Trouble caused by: Not known

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The service is stable again since 03.03. around noon.

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From about today, Monday, 03.03.2025, about 10:30h the central Wiki service XWiki (https://xwiki.desy.de) is unavailable due to a disturbance.

We are working on a solution with highest priority.

Trouble caused by: Still under investigation

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The problem has been solved.

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A central switch has been malfunctioning since around 10:00 today, on Monday 27.01.25, causing disruptions to the network.

The buildings listed below are affected:
19-EG.005
237-Container-IKD
53a-EG00.813
54-Hall-(gallery-west-wall-centre)
80e
51a-EG00.720
12a
31a-006
46d
18-019a
45c
16-OG01.128a
7a-025
42c
12-005
Geb_236
13c-EG.001
43a
52a-EG00.720
11b-Cable hall
16a
47c1_CFEL_HUETTE
72a
32c-Kindergarten-EG.029
52-UG02.201-A01
20c
28n

Possible errors are accessibility problems of network services on connected end devices.

We are working on a solution to the problem with the highest priority.


Trouble caused by: Switch not working correctly

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The problem has been solved.

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Since today, Mittwoch, 22.1.2025, about 03:34h, the central storage service DESY Sync and Share is not reachable. Therefore the following web sites are not available:

https://sas.desy.de
https://syncandshare.desy.de
https://syncundshare.desy.de
https://syncnshare.desy.de
https://share.desy.de
https://desycloud.desy.de

Also affected is the synchronization with local devices using the data synchronization software (Nextcloud Client). Thus, the synchronization is currently not possible.

We are working on a solution with highest priority.

Trouble caused by: unknown

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The problem has been solved.

If the connection does not work in some cases, please check the following:
1. restart the Cisco client, if necessary restart the computer
2. log in to https://vpn.desy.de with account name and password + OTP (directly after password)
3. determine the IPv4 address at https://whatismyipaddress.com/
The colleagues then check whether the IP address has been blocked due to too many incorrect entries.

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Since today, Freitag, 17.1.2025, 06:00h the central service VPN is not available. Therefore it is not possible to connect via VPN to the DESY Intranet

The colleagues are informed.
We are working on a solution with highest priority.

As soon as we have more detailled information about the impacts or the problem has been solved, we will inform you about it.

Trouble caused by: Unforeseen effects of a configuration change

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It cannot be ruled out that the method via the Registry may still occasionally lead to errors as long as there is a high access rate. Users who run into problems should therefore please follow the new section “Alternative way to set up” at the end of the web page about the setup of Mail MFA:
https://it.desy.de/services/mfa/e_mail_programs/setting_up_an_apptoken

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We are currently receiving a large number of requests regarding problems with setting up Mail MFA via the Registry, which may be due to infrastructure overload.

People who have already activated Mail MFA in the past and want to set up a mail app other than Outlook can create and use a new app token using the following instructions:
https://it.desy.de/services/mfa/e_mail_programs/create_another_apptoken

Otherwise, please use https://mail.desy.de to read emails and calendars until the problems have been resolved.

Trouble caused by: High usage of the service

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The problem has been solved today, 02.01.2025 at about 10:30.

Password changes made from 27.12.2024 have to be communicated to Windows again. To do this, log on to https://registry.desy.de, select “Password” -> “Repropagate Password” in the menu, enter your current password again and confirm the input with “Repropagate Password”.

All other actions performed during the disturbance will be automatically repropagated.

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Communication between the DESY Registry (https://registry.desy.de and https://passwd.desy.de) and Windows is currently disrupted. This means that all account actions relating to Windows, e.g. password changes, account prolongations and others, do not become active for Windows.

This does not affect account changes related to all other services, e.g. Mail or Sync & Share. These will become active as usual after a short time.

As soon as the fault has been rectified, all transactions will also be carried out for Windows.

Trouble caused by: Communication problem between Windows and registry

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The problem has been solved.

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Today, Tuesday, 17.12.2024, from approx. 6.22 a.m. to approx. 6.45 a.m. during the recommissioning of the WAN firewall, an unexpected
restart occurred which caused that the DMZ (demilitarized zone) as well as the Internet and various services were not accessible from outside.

The GPFS mounts on the Maxwell worker nodes were a little longer affected.

Trouble caused by: Failure due to unexpected Restart

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The problem has been solved.

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Hello everyone,

Today from 06:22 to 06:36 a.m., there was a brief interruption of the network.
This was due to NOC maintenance work, which resulted in an unscheduled reboot of the firewall.
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Today, Thursday, 5 December 2024, the UCO will only be staffed on site in building 02b/131d until 2 pm.
Support by telephone and e-mail is guaranteed as usual until 5 pm.

The processing of requests in the UCO may take longer.

Trouble caused by: Staff shortage

The problem has been solved.

The software distrubutions have been restored; uninstalled packages may have to be reinstalled manually.
The behaviour of the activation service is under observation.

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Since today, Thursday, 21.11.2024, the Windows software distribution (DSM) is again partially malfunction.

Some activated software packages, some of which were already installed, were automatically uninstalled on computers where a manual transfer of licenses has recently taken place.

The cause is being investigated.

Trouble caused by: Unknown - under investigation

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The problem has been solved.

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Since today, Mittwoch, 13.11.2024, about 16:38 h some central web sites (e.g. www.desy.de) are not or only partially available. Therefore it is not possible to view the contents of the affected web sites.

Affected by the trouble:
- https://www.bastion.desy.de
- https://www.desy.de
- https://www.go.de
- https://www.library.de

Trouble caused by: Unknown - under investigation

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The problem has been solved.

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Since yesterday, Monday, 11.11.2024 16:30h there has been a problem concerning the central file system AFS.

Therefore the login to some central Linux systems (e.g. bastion.desy.de) is not possible for the affected accounts. In addition, access to the AFS user directories of these accounts as well as to some AFS group directories is not possible.

We have listed affected accounts here:
https://it.desy.de/services/uco/news/afs___stoerung___betroffene_user/index_eng.html

Our colleagues are working with the highest priority to restore the service

Trouble caused by: Backend fault prevented server accessibility, rework required

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The problem has been solved.

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On Saturday, 9.11.2024 the Web interface of the Belle II mailing list service was not available.

The distribution of e-mails was not affected.

Trouble caused by: Is under investigation.

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On Wednesday, 06.11.2024, the Windows software distribution (DSM) partially malfunctioned.

During this time, some activated software packages, some of which were already installed, were automatically uninstalled on computers where a manual transfer of licences has recently taken place.

The problem has been resolved and the cause is being investigated.

Trouble caused by: Unknown - under investigation

Today, Dienstag, 13.5.2025 between 20:30h and 21:00h the central Wiki service XWiki (https://xwiki.desy.de) won't be available due to urgently required maintenance work.

Maintenance caused by: Necessary configuration changes and resolution of technical problems

On Dienstag, 13.5.2025 between 16:00 and 17:00 the request tracking system "Request Tracker" (https://rt-system.desy.de) will be unavailable for a few minutes.
A few short interruptions in the accessibility of the system are expected during this time.

New requests created during this time are delivered to the queues after the end of the maintenance at the latest.

Maintenance caused by: Upgrading the RT version and closing security gaps

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On Donnerstag, 8.5.2025 between 11:30h and 13:00h the DOOR System (DESY Online Office for Research with Photons, https://door.desy.de) will not be available.

During this time period the database of the DOOR system will still be accessible for the DESY Gamma Portal (https://gamma-portal.desy.de).

Maintenance caused by: Softwareupdate

The maintenance has just been canceled by the manufacturer.
We will inform you of a new maintenance date as soon as possible.

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From Tuesday, 06.05.2025 09:00 until Wednesday, 07.05.2025 18:00, the IP address management system QIP (https://qip.desy.de) will not be available.

Please perform any necessary device registrations before or after this period.

Maintenance caused by: Upgrade from QIP version 23 to 24

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On Tuesday, 29.04.2025, access to the AFS file system from outside the DESY network will not be possible between 09:00h and 16:00h.

Access within the DESY network will remain fully available, including the required authentication service (Kerberos).

If needed, please use VPN to connect to the DESY network:
https://it.desy.de/services/networks/vpn/

Maintenance caused by: Protocol-specific tests for measures to increase network security.

From Friday, 18.04.2025 - Monday 21.04.2025 the TSL instance for central backups of Linux machines is not available due to maintenance. Therefore, it is during the maintenance not possible to create and restore backups.


Maintenance caused by: Maintenance

On Wednesday, 16.04.2025 between 10:00h and 12:00h some services on the Maxwell-cluster will be briefly disrupted:

- The slurm scheduler will not be available from ~10:00-11:00. During this time no job submissions will be possible.
- All display-nodes and interactive login-nodes will be updated and rebooted. All running sessions and processes will be terminated.
- All jupyterHub sessions running in the jhub-partition will be terminated.

Maintenance caused by: Necessary Work on the Computing Cluster

On Tuesday, 15.4.2025, between 08:00h and 16:00h the central storage services DESY Sync & Share and EXFEL Sync & Share won't be available.

If you need data from storage areas of the service during the maintenance, be sure to download or synchronize them before the start of the maintenance.

The sync clients do not have to be switched off during maintenance. The data synchronization will be paused automatically and continue after the maintenance work.

Maintenance caused by: dCache upgrade, hardware renewal and work on parts of the infrastructure

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The maintenance has been finished.

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On Tuesday, 1.4.2025 in from 11:00 until 13:00, maintenance of the Keycloak central login service takes place.

During this time, it is not possible to login to the following web services, among others:

- DESY Sync & Share (https://syncandshare.desy.de)
- DESY Mail (https://mail.desy.de)
- Indico (https://indico.desy.de)
- Jupyterhub (max-jhub and naf-jhub)
- XWiki

Active connections will not be disrupted. Therefore, users who need the web services during the maintenance period should make sure to log in before the maintenance begins.



Maintenance caused by: Upgrade and work on the user directory (LDAP)

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The maintenance has been finished.

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Today, Thursday 27.03.2025 at 12.30 h, the central service XWiki (https://xwiki.desy.de) needs to be restarted due to problems with the search function in XWiki.desy.de.

The search function should then work again after a few hours.

Maintenance caused by: Problems with the Search Function

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On Wednesday, 26.3.2025 from 10:00h to presumably 12:00h a maintenance work carried out on the BI Publisher environment.
The BI-Publisher is a reporting tool from Oracle, which is used in APEX to generate reports, e.g. PDFs.
No documents (pdf, word etc.) can be generated from APEX applications during this maintenance.
Please be prepared for this and inform your users if necessary.

Maintenance caused by: Infrastructure update APEX-Reporting (BI-Publisher)

The maintenance has been finished.

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On Wednesday, 26.03.2025 between 08:30h and 14:00h the central Wiki service XWiki (https://xwiki.desy.de) won't be available due to maintenance works.

Maintenance caused by: Installation of a new XWiki version

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The maintenance has been finished.

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On Wednesday, 19/03/2025 from 14:00 to 17:00, maintenance work will be carried out on the central Postgre SQL service.

During the implementation of the updates, all Postgre SQL databases will experience several interruptions lasting several minutes.

It is recommended to terminate services and connections beforehand to avoid data loss.

Among other the following services are affected:

- HIFIS HCPortal
- IT Keycloak
- IT Mattermost
- IT Puppet
- IT XWiki
- SYMPA Mailing Lists
- Zeuthen PITZDAQ

A complete list of affected services can be found on the webpage:
https://it.desy.de/news__publications/postgresql_maintenance___affected_services/index_eng.html

Maintenance caused by: Implementing of Updates

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The maintenance has been finished, successfully.

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On Wednesday, 19.03.2025 from 14:00h to 17:00h the central service of the PostgreSQL database will not be available due to maintenance work.

The XWiki service is directly affected by this and will therefore not be available for the duration of the maintenance.

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Maintenance caused by: PostgreSQL Database updates that affect the XWiki service

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On Mittwoch, 19.3.2025 from 13:30h to presumably 17:00h a maintenance work carried out on the BI Publisher environment.
The BI-Publisher is a reporting tool from Oracle, which is used in APEX to generate reports, e.g. PDFs.
No documents (pdf, word etc.) can be generated from APEX applications during this maintenance.
Please be prepared for this and inform your users if necessary.

Maintenance caused by: Infrastructure update APEX-Reporting (BI-Publisher)

On Friday, 14.3.2025, the monthly Windows Updates will be released. Please install them on your DESY Windows devices as soon as possible to ensure that they are up-to-date and secure.

To do this, connect your Windows device to the internal DESY network after the updates have been released. Use VPN if you are extern. When prompted or at the end of the day, restart or shut down your Windows device.

Seven days after the release of the updates, a forced restart of the computers will take place if this has not taken place in the meantime.


Hint:

Next Wednesday, xx.xx.xxxx, from 17:00 to max. 20:00, trouble-free working in the Windows environment cannot be guaranteed due to the monthly maintenance work on the central Windows servers.

It is recommended to log off or shut down DESY Windows devices on Wednesday before the maintenance starts. You should also log off from public Windows systems (terminal servers) beforehand.

Maintenance caused by: Windows updates and the monthly maintenance work on the corresponding central computers

The maintenance has been finished.

Due to technical problems that could not be clarified beyond doubt before the maintenance, the XWiki version update has been postponed at short notice on the recommendation of the manufacturer. As a result, only parts of the software were updated during today's maintenance (so-called extension updates).

We will inform you as soon as a new date for the XWiki version update has been scheduled.

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On Wednesday, 12.03.2025 between 08:30h and 14:00h the central Wiki service XWiki (https://xwiki.desy.de) won't be available due to maintenance works.

Maintenance caused by: Installation of a new XWiki version

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The maintenance has been finished.

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On Wednesday, 05.03.25 from 14:00h until 17:00h maintenance work / changes will be carried out on a software component ("etcd") of the central PostgreSQL service.

The maintenance will have no impact on the accessibility of the PostgreSQL database if it proceeds as planned.

Maintenance caused by: Changeover from GEANT to Harica, increasing number of nodes, updates

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From today, Tuesday 25.02.25 until Saturday 1.3.2025, the Telekom mobile phone coverage on the DESY site will be interrupted from time to time because the antenna technology is being converted by Telekom at short notice and the individual mobile phone cells will be activated and deactivated more frequently during the conversion.

It is still possible to make calls via the WLAN infrastructure. This can be activated in the mobile phone settings so that calls can be made even without mobile phone reception.
Seetings see: https://it.desy.de/aktuelles__veroeffentlichungen/telefonie_ueber_wlan___einstellung/index_ger.html (only German).

Mobile phone coverage in the accelerators is not affected.




Maintenance caused by: Short-term conversion of the antenna technology on building 2b by the Telekom

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On Dienstag, 25.2.2025 between 09:30h and 10:30h the central Wiki service XWiki (https://xwiki.desy.de) won't be available for a few minutes due to maintenance works.

Maintenance caused by: Update of software components (extension updates) and a necessary restart associated with this

On Freitag, 21.2.2025 between 10:00h and 10:30h the DOOR System (DESY Online Office for Research with Photons, https://door.desy.de) will not be available.

During this time period the database of the DOOR system will still be accessible for the DESY Gamma Portal (https://gamma-portal.desy.de).

Maintenance caused by: Softwareupdate

On Thursday, 20.02.2025 between 08:00h and 15:00h maintenance works on all SYMPA mailing list servers will take place.

The following SYMPA instances are affected:

DESY,
Belle2,
CSSB,
dCache,
XFEL

During the maintenance the web page of the respective Sympa servers won't be available for up to 30 minutes. During the downtime of each server no emails will be distributed to the affected mailing lists.

All e-mails will be temporarily stored and distributed after the affected server is up and running again.

Maintenance caused by: Appliance of critical system and security updates and the update of the SYMPA software

On Tuesday, 18.2.2025 between 10:00h and 10:45h the central Wiki service XWiki (https://xwiki.desy.de) won't be available due to maintenance works.

Maintenance caused by: Technically necessary measures to improve the stability of the service

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Today, Freitag, 14.2.2025, at about 14:00 a short interruption of the central e-mail service (https://mail.desy.de) for up to 20 minutes will take place.

Access with Outlook or Thunderbird will only be possible to a limited extent.

Maintenance caused by: Restarting the services on the mail servers to fix a technical problem

On Friday, 14.2.2025, the monthly Windows Updates will be released. Please install them on your DESY Windows devices as soon as possible to ensure that they are up-to-date and secure.

To do this, connect your Windows device to the internal DESY network after the updates have been released. Use VPN if you are extern. When prompted or at the end of the day, restart or shut down your Windows device.

Seven days after the release of the updates, a forced restart of the computers will take place if this has not taken place in the meantime.


Hint:

Next Wednesday, 19.02.2025, from 17:00 to max. 20:00, trouble-free working in the Windows environment cannot be guaranteed due to the monthly maintenance work on the central Windows servers.

It is recommended to log off or shut down DESY Windows devices on Wednesday before the maintenance starts. You should also log off from public Windows systems (terminal servers) beforehand.

Maintenance caused by: Windows updates and the monthly maintenance work on the corresponding central computers

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The maintenance has been finished.

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On Thursday, 30/01/2025, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m maintenance work will be carried out on the central e-mail service (https://mail.desy.de).

During the maintenance access via the web interface will be interrupted temporarily. Access with Outlook or Thunderbird will only be possible to a limited extent. Shared folders and calendars may not be accessible.

When composing e-mails, please regularly save the current status in the drafts folder to avoid data loss.

Maintenance caused by: Update of Zimbra to the up-to-date version due to a critical security vulnerability

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Today, Freitag, 24.1.2025 between 14:45h and 14:50h the central Wiki service XWiki (https://xwiki.desy.de) won't be available for a shot time period of about 5 minutes.

Maintenance caused by: Service restart required at short notice to solve technical problems

On Donnerstag, 23.1.2025 between 10:30h and 11:30h the DOOR System (DESY Online Office for Research with Photons, https://door.desy.de) will not be available.

During this time period the database of the DOOR system will still be accessible for the DESY Gamma Portal (https://gamma-portal.desy.de).

Maintenance caused by: Softwareupdate

Today Mittwoch, 22.1.2025 between 19:00h and 19:30h the central Wiki service XWiki (https://xwiki.desy.de) might temporarily not be available due to maintenance works.

Maintenance caused by: Update of XWiki Software Components (Extensions)

Already today, on Thursday, 16.01.2025, the monthly Windows updates will be released. The reason for the early release is a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook. Please install the updates on your DESY Windows devices as soon as possible to ensure that your devices are up-to-date and secure.

To do this, connect your Windows device to the internal DESY network after the updates have been released. Use VPN if you are extern. When prompted or at the end of the day, restart or shut down your Windows device.


Hint:

Next Wednesday, 22.01.2025, from 17:00 to max. 20:00, trouble-free working in the Windows environment cannot be guaranteed due to the monthly maintenance work on the central Windows servers.

It is recommended to log off or shut down DESY Windows devices on Wednesday before the start of maintenance. You should also log off from public Windows systems (terminal servers) beforehand.

Maintenance caused by: The monthly maintenance work on the appropriate central computers.

On Tuesday, 07.01.2025, maintenance work will be carried out on the central data network infrastructure between 06:00h and 09:00h.

The central IT services will be available without interruption if everything works as planned. However, it cannot be completely ruled out that there may be interruptions in the data network connection in the data center as well as in the central IT services.

If you use the central IT services and change data during the maintenance period, please save frequently during the maintenance period to minimize the risk of data loss.

Maintenance caused by: Maintenance of the central Data Network Infrastructure

The maintenance has been finished.

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On Wednesday, 18.12.2024 from 06:00h to 09:00h, maintenance work will be carried out on the Windows Software Distribution (DSM).

During this time, no DSM-based software installations will be possible. As well, de-, re- and post-installations are not possible during this time.

Maintenance caused by: Installation of Security Patches

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On Freitag, 13.12.2024, the monthly Windows Updates will be released. Please install them on your DESY Windows devices as soon as possible to ensure that they are up-to-date and secure.

To do this, connect your Windows device to the internal DESY network after the updates have been released. Use VPN if you are extern. When prompted or at the end of the day, restart or shut down your Windows device.

On Wednesday, 18.12.2024 from 17 - 20h it is not possible to guarantee trouble-free operation in the Windows environment. This is due to regular maintenance work on the central Windows servers.

It is recommended to log off or shut down DESY Windows devices on Wednesday before the maintenance starts. You should also log off from public Windows systems (terminal servers) beforehand.

Maintenance caused by: The monthly maintenance work on the appropriate central computers. This requires only in the most unfavourable case the entire period of 3 resp. 2 hours

On Mittwoch, 11.12.2024 between 09:00h and 11:00h the DESY instance of the conference management system Indico (https://indico.desy.de) will not be available.

Please save and finish your work in time and keep presentations you need to retrieve from Indico during this time period on an alternative storage medium (e.g. USB stick or local drive).

Maintenance caused by: Installation of Updates

On Dienstag, 10.12.2024 between 10:00h and 11:00h the BELLE II instance of the conference management system Indico (https://indico.belle2.org) will not be available.

Please save and finish your work in time and keep presentations you need to retrieve from Indico during this time period on an alternative storage medium (e.g. USB stick or local drive)

Maintenance caused by: Installation of Updates

On Dienstag, 10.12.2024 between 10:00h and 11:30h the DOOR System (DESY Online Office for Research with Photons, https://door.desy.de) will not be available.

During this time period the database of the DOOR system will still be accessible for the DESY Gamma Portal (https://gamma-portal.desy.de).

Maintenance caused by: Softwareupdate

On 10.12.2024 between 09:00 and 10:00 the HIFIS instance of the conference management system Indico (https://events.hifis.net) will not be available.

Please save and finish your work in time and keep presentations you need to retrieve from Indico during this time period on an alternative storage medium (e.g. USB stick or local drive).

Maintenance caused by: Installation of Updates

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On Tuesday, 3.12.2024 from 08:00 h until 09:00 h, the messaging service Mattermost (https://chat.desy.de) will not be available due to maintenance work.

After completing the work, a reload or restart of the browser or client is necessary.

Users will be notified via the Mattermost banner in the application from Thursday, 02 December 2024.

Maintenance caused by: Updates and infrastructure maintenance

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The maintenance has been finished.

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On Thursday, 28/11/2024, from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m maintenance work will be carried out on the central e-mail service (https://mail.desy.de).

During the maintenance period, there will be longer interruptions to access via the web interface. Access with Outlook or Thunderbird will only be possible to a limited extent. Shared folders and calendars may not be accessible.

When composing e-mails, please regularly save the current status in the drafts folder to avoid data loss.


Maintenance caused by: Update of Zimbra to the latest version

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On Mittwoch, 27.11.2024 from 08:00h to presumably 08:30h the central service of the PostgreSQL database will not be available due to maintenance work.

As part of the maintenance, all existing connections to the PostgreSQL databases hosted by IT-DADS are disconnected once.
The databases will then be accessible again after a short time.

Services affected by the maintenance:
- IDP DESY
- IDP XFEL
- Keycloak
- Mattermost
- Privacyidea
- XWiki

Maintenance caused by: Updates to close critical security gaps

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On Wednesday, 27.11.2024 between 08:00h and 11:00h the central Wiki service XWiki (https://xwiki.desy.de) won't be available due to maintenance works.

Maintenance caused by: Installation of a new XWiki version and update of various software extensions

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The maintenance has been postponed to 28.11.2024.

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The maintenance has been postponed to 28/11/2024.

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On Tuesday, 26/11/2024, from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m maintenance work will be carried out on the central e-mail service (https://mail.desy.de).

During the maintenance period, there will be longer interruptions to access via the web interface. Access with Outlook or Thunderbird will only be possible to a limited extent. Shared folders and calendars may not be accessible.

When composing e-mails, please regularly save the current status in the drafts folder to avoid data loss.


Maintenance caused by: Update of Zimbra to the latest version

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The maintenance has been finished.

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The maintenance has been suspended due to short-term feedback with the request to reschedule.
The new date is Tuesday, 26 November 2024 and will be announced separately.

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On Thursday, 21/11/2024, from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m maintenance work will be carried out on the central e-mail service (https://mail.desy.de).

During the maintenance period, there will be longer interruptions to access via the web interface. Access with Outlook or Thunderbird will only be possible to a limited extent. Shared folders and calendars may not be accessible.

When composing e-mails, please regularly save the current status in the drafts folder to avoid data loss.


Maintenance caused by: Update of Zimbra to the latest version

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On Montag, 18.11.2024 between 14:00h and 08:45h the DOOR System (DESY Online Office for Research with Photons, https://door.desy.de) will not be available.

During this time period the database of the DOOR system will still be accessible for the DESY Gamma Portal (https://gamma-portal.desy.de).

Maintenance caused by: Software Update

On Monday, 18.11.2024 between 8:00h and 8.30h the central XWiki production system (https://xwiki.desy.de) will not be available due to maintenance work.

Maintenance caused by: Critical Security Maintenance

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On Friday, 15.11.2024, the monthly Windows Updates will be released. Please install them on your DESY Windows devices as soon as possible to ensure that they are up-to-date and secure.

To do this, connect your Windows device to the internal DESY network after the updates have been released. Use VPN if you are extern. When prompted or at the end of the day, restart or shut down your Windows device.

On Wednesday, 20.11.2024 from 17 - 20h it is not possible to guarantee trouble-free operation in the Windows environment. This is due to regular maintenance work on the central Windows servers.

It is recommended to log off or shut down DESY Windows devices on Wednesday before the maintenance starts. You should also log off from public Windows systems (terminal servers) beforehand.

Maintenance caused by: The monthly maintenance work on the appropriate central computers. This requires only in the most unfavourable case the entire period of 3 resp. 2 hours

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The maintenance has been finished.

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On Monday, 11.11.2024 between 9:00 AM and 2:00 PM, the central Linux installation server NIMS (https://nims.desy.de) will be migrated to new hardware.

The service will remain available during the maintenance period,
Linux installations are possible during that time as well.

Maintenance caused by: Replacement of server hardware

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On Thursday, 07.11.2024, there will be an all-day maintenance of some SYMPA mailing list servers.

The following SYMPA instances are affected:

Belle2,
CSSB,
dCache,
DESY,
XFEL

During the maintenance the web interface of the respective instance will be unavailable for a longer period of time and no e-mails will be delivered to mailing lists during this period.
All e-mails will be temporarily stored and then distributed.

Maintenance caused by: Relocation of the virtual machines to a new hardware pool.

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As already announced in the CUC, the Big Blue Button video conferencing software (https://conf.desy.de) will be shut down at the beginning of May 2025.
Accordingly, it will no longer be possible to use the call function in the DESY Chat (chat.desy.de).

Users who require video conferencing service should use ZOOM or DFNConf. Information about these services can be found on the following website:
https://it.desy.de/services/video_conferences
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Since the last update of the Cisco Secure Client for vpn.desy.de <http://vpn.desy.de/> on 7.3.2025, the behaviour of the software has changed.

It can happen that the previously pre-filled “vpn.desy.de <http://vpn.desy.de/>” disappears in the login window of the program. Previously, the Cisco VPN software “remembered” the settings. Since the update to more recent versions, vpn.desy.de <http://vpn.desy.de/> sometimes has to be entered again.

On Monday, 06.01.2025, the name resolution on central Linux installations will be changed to Anycast DNS. Anycast DNS increases the availability and reliablity of name resolutions on Linux.

After the change, only a single DNS server (dns.desy.de - 10.0.0.20) will be configured in /etc/resolv.conf. Additionally, the DHCP templates bios_Linux & uefi_Linux will be changed to Anycast DNS as well.

This change has been announced in the Computer User Committee (CUC).

By the end of the year, the DESY data center and the UCO will be staffed:

- Mon., 23.12.
- Fri., 27.12.
- Mon., 30.12.

Each day from 9:00h; Mon. until 17:00h / Fri. until 15:00h

On the following days the DESY computer center as well as the UCO won't be staffed and thus only the IT on-call service will be reachable on the following days:

- Tue., 24.12. - Thu., 26.12.
- Sat., 28.12. + Sun., 29.12. (Weekend)
- Tue., 31.12. + Wed., 01.01.

From Thursday, 02.01.2025, we will be available again as usual:
https://it.desy.de/help_uco

The acceptance of goods during opening hours and the continuous supervision of critical services are guaranteed. The telephone numbers of the IT on-call service are known to the experiment and machine control rooms as well as the technical emergency service.

On Tuesday, 14.01.2025, the additional protection of e-mail/calendar programs required for security reasons will become mandatory.

In order to be able to continue working with Outlook, Thunderbird or smartphone apps after 14.01.2025, please proceed as described in the following instructions already now:

https://it.desy.de/services/mfa/e_mail_programs/setting_up_an_apptoken

If you have already taken the additional steps to secure your mailbox or only use the website https://mail.desy.de to access your emails, nothing will change for you.

If you have any questions, please contact the IT helpdesk at any time
(e-mail: uco@desy.de / Tel. 5005).
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As agreed in the CUC, as of Tuesday, 03.12.2024 access from extern to the Wiki service XWiki (https://xwiki.desy.de) will only be possible via VPN or SSH.
A solution for worldwide read access without login for Spaces which have to be activated explicitly for this kind of access, is currently being developed.

The reason for this measure is to increase the security level of the information provided in XWiki.

If you have any questions, please contact the IT helpdesk at any time (uco@desy.de, Tel: 5005).

The DFN-Verein will severely restrict the GEANT TCS certificate service which is offered via the service provider Sectigo. Sectigo has unilaterally terminated the service as of 10.1.2025.

This means that it will no longer be possible to issue new server and user certificates from this date at the latest. This also applies to IGTF certificates in the grid computing environment. GEANT and DFN are working on providing the service via a new provider as quickly as possible.

Time scales are not yet known here, as soon as
information is available we will let you know.

If you are using server or user certificates from the above-mentioned certificate service yourself we strongly recommend that you renew the certificates that are due to expire in the next few months now.

Information on how to deal with server and user certificates can be found at.

User certificates.
https://it.desy.de/services/uco/documentation/digital_signatures/request_user_certificate/index_eng.html

Server certificates
https://www-ca.desy.de/index_eng.html

On Monday, 02.12.2024, the forwarding of https://mattermost.desy.de will be removed.

The Mattermost messaging service will then only be accessed via https://chat.desy.de.

Users will be notified via the Mattermost banner in the application from Thursday, 28 November 2024.

Reason:
Misbehaviour of the software if https://chat.desy.de is not used.
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As of yesterday, Monday 4.11.2024, 15.00 h the REST-API of the XWiki service is now only accessible via the internal network. This means that access is only possible via a direct intranet connection or via VPN/SSH tunnel.

(The REST API (Representational State Transfer - Application Programming Interface) enables standardized communication and data exchange in the XWiki system).

Please note that due to the restriction, access to information or saving changes may be limited. Check availability via VPN/SSH before making major edits.

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