Welcome on the PP&B Wiki

PP&B is the computer support group at the Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG. We provide most of the IT Services.

If you have problems or questions write an E-Mail to

or call

Here are some Links to the most requested information:

• General Information (Allgemeine Informationen)
• Mail System
• Mailfilter PureMessage
• Greylist Verfahren
• Database
• Windows Desktops (Windows Rechner)
• Software (Software deutsche Version)
• Telefon System
• Mailbox trouble
• GLT
• FHI User Account Registration/Renewal

News

Wed, 9. Dec. 2009, due to the sudden dead of our good old share-point-server (spd) we had the imperative need to enforce our scheduled reorganisation of the so called groupaccounts. Sorry for all confusions today regarding the network drives

Wed, 7. Oct. 2009, Breakdown central login-server at 13:00 , new hardware system installed, ready 14:00

August 2009, hotmail (new windows live) does not accept mails from our domain (reputation -> policy at hotmail has changed)

 We try to solve that problem with 
 SPF records as requested from hotmail. -> solved

Tue, 6. Mai. 2009, Comsol license 3.4 installed. If you encounter problems with it, please check that your license.dat file looks like

 SERVER scrutinizer INTERNET=141.14.128.16 1817
 USE_SERVER

Tue, 21. Apr. 2009, New Matlab license (R2009a) installed. If you encounter problems with it, please check that your license.dat file looks like

 # MATLAB license passcode file.
 # LicenseNo: 158471   HostID: 80766250
 SERVER scrutinizer 80766250 27010
 USE_SERVER

Fri, 3. Apr. 2009, VPN controller for L2TP (cisco ASA) out of order (GNZ Info, Mante 11:20)

Thu, 11. Dec. 2008, FHI-CA (Zugriff RA) (Admin-Access)

Wed,23. Jul. 2008, Activate eduroam SSID (http://www.zedat.fu-berlin.de/Eduroam-802dot1x)

Mon, 25. Feb. 2008, Update postfix on mail. In the recent past we have seen a few misinterpreted mails (declared as SPAM with about 32% probability). We have introduced a new check for authenticated senders to improve the efficiency of the SPAM-detection.

Fri, 25. May 2007,We are no longer blocking delivery and transmission of e-mail with attachments that have suspect file names (including .zip files)

Wed, 18. Apr. 2007, New sshd (4.6p1) on ssh-gateway installed

Wed, 4. Apr. 2007, for phoneconferencing now available TeamSpeak

Fri, 26. Jan. 2007, Queue structure change on fhix

Wed., 13. Dec. 2006, Starting setup of a new wireless system at the FHI (SSID: Wi-Fhi)

Fri, 7. Jul. 2006, License for Intel Fortan and Math Library (setenv INTEL_LICENSE_FILE 28518@scrutinizer)

Tue, 16. Apr. 2006, New Jabber Server for Telephone and Videoconferences

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