IT News

Upcoming Login Screen Refresh Paves the Way for Passkeys

June 9, 2025

In our ongoing efforts to enhance security and user experience across the Berkeley Lab community, IT is preparing for a significant upgrade to our authentication methods with the planned Lab-wide rollout of Passkeys later this year. As an initial step in this transition, we will soon be releasing an update to the authentication screens you… Read more »

Linux Foundation OpenHPC project uses LBNL Warewulf

November 25, 2015

The Linux Foundation the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, has announced an intent to form the OpenHPC Collaborative Project. This project will provide a new, open source framework to support the world’s most sophisticated High Performance Computing environments. Warewulf, our cluster provisioning tool developed by IT’s HPC architect Greg Kurtzer, is specified… Read more »
Smartsheet Planned maintenance – November 7, 2015

November 6, 2015

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 06, 2015 Smartsheet will be offline for 90 minutes on November 7 at 1:00pm PST (2015-11-07 21:00 UTC) for system improvements. Smartsheet status can be checked here. Read more »
FUZE Maintenance Outage on November 6, 2015

November 5, 2015

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 05, 2015 Fuze (a Video Conferencing Application) will be performing a system service maintenance on Friday November 6, 2015 between the hours of 9:45pm and 10:30pm PST. For details of the maintenance, please refer to the following link: https://support.fuze.com/hc/en-us/articles/213493287 Read more »
WWW, Today, Newscenter Outage Oct 15 2015 – Resolved

October 15, 2015

This outage has been resolved.We are experiencing an outage on www.lbl.gov, today.lbl.gov, and newscenter.lbl.gov. The service provider is in the process of restoring those sites. We will update this page when new information is available. Read more »
Google Drive Outage Oct 9 2015 – Resolved

October 9, 2015

Adam Stone posted on Oct 09, 2015 This outage has been resolved. Google Drive, Docs, Slides, and Sheets are experiencing partial outages today Oct 9 2015. There is no estimated time to recovery from Google. You can monitor Google’s Apps Status Dashboard at: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status Read more »
Network Outage Impacting Offsite Buildings – October 1 2015

October 1, 2015

Adam Stone posted on Oct 01, 2015 We are experiencing an outage of our leased lines to buildings 978 and 972. Engineers are working with the vendor to diagnose the situation. We do not have an estimated return to service at this time. Read more »
Reminder to Google Apps Users: IOS Calendar App Available

September 28, 2015

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Sep 28, 2015 We continue to get reports of issues with the built in calendar app for iPhones: mysterious notifications to people who are not even guests in an event, syncing issues (events on the web that may be updated or cancelled don’t show up on the iPhone) are two… Read more »
Archiving Files and Records Workshop on Oct. 29

September 22, 2015

Nina Lucido posted on Sep 22, 2015 Are you running out of space in your office, moving to a new office, or tasked with processing the records of retiring (or already retired) scientists? As part of American Archives Month, you will learn about which files need to be kept, which can be archived, and which can… Read more »
MalwareBytes Security Software Available at software.lbl.gov

September 2, 2015

Nina Lucido posted on Sep 02, 2015 Berkeley Lab IT’s Cyber Security and Workstation Support groups recommend installing MalwareBytes Anti-Malware for Business on all Windows laptops and workstations. MalwareBytes is able to detect and remove many forms of malicious software that traditional anti-virus tools may miss. This important security tool is available for installation on all Windows systems at the… Read more »
Commons (Confluence) Upgrade planned for Saturday Sept 5

August 28, 2015

Announcing a planned upgrade of our confluence wiki. commons.lbl.gov hosts many lab websites (including Facilities, IT, Chemical Sciences, HR, etc) as well as community and project spaces. The outage window will start at 9am on Saturday, September 5 and is expected to last 3 hours. Read more »
eRoom Planned Maintenance: Wednesday July 15 – 4pm – 6pm

July 13, 2015

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 13, 2015 The conversion was made during the evening of July 14. We are now on the Windows 2008 platform Although we have reduced the number of active eRooms to less than 15, we have to upgrade the Windows Server it depends on – due to end of support for… Read more »
Changes to Berkeley Lab Login Page – Sept 17

June 30, 2015

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jun 30, 2015 In an effort to provide dynamic content relating to Cyber Security or IT News during the login process, we are working on a change to the Berkeley Lab Identity “LDAP” login page.. We are planning on implementing this change on the evening of Thursday, September 17. A more streamlined page… Read more »