Service Alerts
Update - 7/22/2017, 6:00am The Zimbra email service was under a Denial of Service attack yesterday. We were able to successfully block the offending IPs and stabilized the service as of 3:30pm yesterday. We continued to monitor the service throughout the night and the service has been functioning normally.
Update - 12:30pm We continue to monitor the spike in usage of the Zimbra service and have implemented several measures to address the problem but are still investigating the root cause.
7/21/2017, 9:00am Around 2:30 this morning we started seeing alarms about the
performance of the Zimbra email service. We have restarted the
service on all mailboxes to ease the congestion while we continue to
investigate and monitor. We'll send updates as soon as we can.
Exchange Service Alerts
Update: 11/9/2016, 4:00pm - Database access is now reinstated including for the Exchange Account Management application.
Update: 11/9/2016, 2:45pm - Access to all mailboxes should be fixed now.
The database connectivity to mailboxes is once again working. Unfortunately, this database connectivity problem also affected the Exchange Account Management application and that application continues to be down. We do not expect that the application will be available again until later this evening.
Update: 11/9/2016, 2:00pm - We are still investigating the problem which is affecting a portion of our users. Some users will continue to experience problems connecting to the mailbox database as we continue our investigation.
We will share updates as we can.
11/9/2016, 11:45am - A portion of our Exchange users are failing to connect to the Exchange OWA. We are aware of the problem and are running a cleanup program to restore access.
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ISC Networking and Telecommunications Email Service - Administrative
Responsibility
ISC Networking and Telecommunications provides email service
for various departments and schools across the University.
Each department that has email accounts on the ISC Networking and Telecommunications server
must have at least one administrator and not more than five
administrators who can assume responsibility for
managing the email accounts using local tools developed by ISC
Networking and Telecommunications. Administrators should have
some familiarity with supported email clients and
at least a cursory understanding of University processes.
While the administrator is the first line of support for the email
user and should try to resolve the user's email problem,
an administrator can escalate any problem to ISC Networking and
Telecommunications staff by submitting a request for assistance from the ProDesk web site.
Departments and schools can also opt for "full-service" accounts where
ISC Technology Support Services will
provide email administration services for an additional cost per account.
Account management responsibilities
Both our Exchange and Zimbra email services provide a web application to help with account management.
Functions available through our account management tool include:
- creating accounts
- deleting accounts
- reinstating accounts
- resetting passwords
- managing quotas
- unlocking accounts
Links to these applications are available from the email service web site.
An administrator should also be prepared to help users in the following
areas:
- using mail clients
- setting passwords
- forwarding mail messages
- setting vacation messages
- cleaning up files to maintain disk quotas
- creating a PennKey and password
University processes
The following are University processes with which you may have to
be familiar:
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