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 »

New Approach to Account Creation launched May 15, 2014

May 16, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on May 16, 2014 As part of a plan to reduce manual effort by the HR Shared Services new hire onboarding team, our collaboration team, and the IT Help desk – we deployed some new automated processes for Account Creation on May 15, 2014. We offer three types of services: An Enterprise Directory… Read more »
WWW, Today, Newscenter Outage 2-5pm May 23 2014 – Scheduled

May 12, 2014

Adam Stone posted on May 12, 2014 www.lbl.gov today.lbl.gov and newscenter.lbl.gov will take an unusual scheduled daytime outage from 2-5pm May 23, 2014 for upgrades. The Phonebook will be available at http://www2.lbl.gov/ds/ during this outage. Read more »
Voicemail Outage Wed May 14 2013 5-8PM – Scheduled

May 12, 2014

Adam Stone posted on May 12, 2014 On Wednesday, May 14, the Laboratory’s voice mail system will be unavailable from 5:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. for system maintenance. During this time, voice mail messages will be unavailable and callers will be unable to leave a message. Outgoing and incoming calls will not be impacted. For more information, contact Telephone Services (x7997). Read more »
UCB and LBNL HPCS partner to launch new Berkeley Research Computing program

May 5, 2014

Gary M Jung posted on May 05, 2014 The UC Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) celebrates its launch on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. in Sutardja Dai Hall. This exciting new program, developed with the IT Division’s High Performance Computing Services group (HPCS), will help faculty and students with a range of computation and data needs for both… Read more »
Leaving the Lab? Think About Data Transfer Before You Go

April 24, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Apr 24, 2014 Traditional check-out procedures involve physical items like keys, badges and parking passes. Electronic data is as important and often much more difficult to deal with. Think about the places where your electronic history at the lab is stored: Local storage on your workstation (laptop and/or desktop) Network storage… Read more »
Resources and Strategies for Effective Research Course – May 8

April 17, 2014

Nina Lucido posted on Apr 17, 2014 Learn how to quickly locate and get a hold of articles, books and other information through subscription journals, databases and libraries worldwide at any time and location without cost to you. Whether you are a scientist, student or staff, this course will provide you with resources and strategies to… Read more »
Heartbleed security bug and Berkeley Lab

April 11, 2014

Adam Stone posted on Apr 11, 2014 The recently announced Heartbleed bug has been making the rounds in the media. Visit go.lbl.gov/heartbleed for an assessment of impact on Berkeley Lab systems, to find more information on the bug and to get recommendations from Cyber Security regarding password safety. Read more »
Archiving Files/Records Class – April 25

March 25, 2014

Nina Lucido posted on Mar 25, 2014 Are you running out of space in your office? Are you moving to a new office? Is the size of your office being reduced? Are you responsible for dealing with the records of retiring (or already retired) scientists? Are you wondering what to do with all the files you… Read more »
WINS Servers To Be Retired

March 25, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 25, 2014 WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) was a pre DNS method for associating a NetBIOS name with an IP address. Older Windows PC and Samba Servers used this to locate services on a windows network – but in the modern era, this is no longer needed. The Lab has… Read more »
Google Search Engine to be Replaced on April 20

March 17, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 17, 2014 Conversion Completed The conversion to the new Google Custom Search Engine was completed at noon, Wednesday May 7, 2014. On April 20th, 2014, IT will be discontinuing the Google Search Appliance service offering in favor of new Google provided search offering called Google Custom Search. This has implications… Read more »
Commons Upgrade Planned for March 22

March 14, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 14, 2014 Outage Details: Date/Time: Saturday March 22, 2014 8:00am – Noon (The upgrade was completeed on schedule) Type: Scheduled Impacted Services: Commons – including many divisional/group home pages, including IT, Facilities, HR, Nuclear Sciences, and Physics. Background Our institutional wiki (commons.lbl.gov) is due for an upgrade. After some… Read more »
HPCS presenting at GlobusWorld 2014

March 12, 2014

Gary M Jung posted on Mar 12, 2014 HPC Services consultant Krishna Muriki and systems engineer Karen Fernsler will be presenting at GlobusWorld 2014 on April 15-17, 2014 at Argonne National Laboratory. The main theme of this year’s conference is Setting Up a Campus Data Service since many campus IT professionals are charged with creating a flexible, highly-available service for moving… Read more »