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 »

Power Shutdown Scheduled for Weekend of July 11th

June 26, 2015

Nina Lucido posted on Jun 26, 2015 A power shutdown is scheduled for this Saturday, July 11th to enable necessary maintenance on the Lab’s power distribution system. The power shutdown involves several buildings, including the 50 complex, which houses the Lab’s central IT systems. Most IT systems will be offline from Friday, 7/10 at 5:00pm through… Read more »
OPM Data Breach

June 4, 2015

Adam Stone posted on Jun 04, 2015 On June 4, the Office of Personnel Management in the Federal Government announced a major breach of data on 4 million individuals. Since Berkeley Lab employees are not Federal employees, most LBL employees and affiliates are not included in the scope of the breach. However, OPM also processes security… Read more »
Leaving the Lab?

May 29, 2015

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on May 29, 2015 If you plan to leave the lab, please consider the disposition of any electronic data as part of your exit checklist. Take a look at our FAQ on this subject at go.lbl.gov/leaving. We have suggestions for Gmail, Google Drive, and Calendar events, along with data you might have stored… Read more »
HPC Services at DellXL this week

April 24, 2015

Gary M Jung posted on Apr 24, 2015 HPC Services staff members Yong Qin and Michael Jennings gave talks highlighting their respective software tools, wwibcheck and NHC, at the DellXL High Performance Computing (HPC) conference this week, April 21-23, 2015, in Boulder, Colorado (agenda). Most HPC systems rely on a high-performance, low-latency interconnect network to connect compute nodes together in a way… Read more »
Webspace End of Life Announcement

April 22, 2015

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Apr 22, 2015 Webspace was one of our early ventures into providing a web based collaboration tool that allowed easy sharing of documents and access from any location in the world. We plan to end service in July 2016. Google Drive has become a viable alternative to Webspace for many… Read more »
Policy on Smartwatches Apple Watch and Fitness Trackers

April 9, 2015

Adam Stone posted on Apr 09, 2015 IT has issued new policy on the acquisition of smart watches and fitness trackers including the new Apple Watch (which everyone calls iWatch but is not actually called that). The acquisition of these products now requires additional justification and approvals. The policy is available to authenticated LBL employees by clicking… Read more »
eRoom News – Down To 21 And Counting

March 31, 2015

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 31, 2015 We continue to work on the retirement of our legacy eRoom service (an on-premise web content service used for over a decade). We will terminate the service on or before December 2015. Many of these eRooms have been migrated to AODocs libraries for archival and reference purposes. (We… Read more »
World Backup Day 2015 – Time for a Backup Checkup

March 27, 2015

Adam Stone posted on Mar 27, 2015 World Backup Day: Is your data backed up? The IT Division is taking part in celebrating World Backup Day by encouraging the Lab community to double check that your backups are working and ensure that all your important data is backed up. Don’t Be An April Fool – Do… Read more »
New Google Calendar App for iOS devices

March 16, 2015

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 16, 2015 Following the successful launch of a Calendar app for Android last Fall, Google released a version for iOS devices last week. For “power” calendar users, we hope this solves some of the issues we have seen with the built-in calendar app on iPhones. The description for the… Read more »
Planned upgrade of IDM equipment – Friday March 13, 4pm

March 12, 2015

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 12, 2015 This work has been completed successfully with no interruption in service The Identity Management Team will perform a planned upgrade to equipment that front ends our services (the enterprise directory, authentication systems, phonebook, etc). This is a security upgrade and will be done at 4pm, Friday March 13.… Read more »
Unscheduled outage – Google Apps Marketplace Apps – March 5

March 5, 2015

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 05, 2015 From approximately 7:30am through 9:00am March 5, a problem at Google resulted in authentication failures when Lab users attempted to use any of our Marketplace Apps (Lucidchart, Smartsheet, GQueues . etc). Read more »
Smartsheet Unscheduled Outage – March 4 2015 – Resolved

March 4, 2015

Adam Stone posted on Mar 04, 2015 This issue is resolved. Prior details: Smartsheet is currently experiencing an issue which prevents users from logging in. More at: http://status.smartsheet.com/ Read more »