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  • Accessing HelloSign: Important Update

    Accessing HelloSign: Important Update

    Due to recent changes implemented by HelloSign (now part of Dropbox Sign), the service is no longer accessible through the Google App Launcher, often referred to as the “waffle” menu. Users who previously relied on this quick-access feature will need to adjust their workflow to continue using HelloSign. To access HelloSign moving forward, go directly… Read more »

  • Heartbleed security bug and Berkeley Lab

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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 »

  • New Video Conferencing Offerings

    Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jan 31, 2014 IT is pleased to announce two new video conferencing services for the use of Berkeley Lab staff.   First, we’ve outfitted 30 conference rooms with multi-functional video conferencing carts.  Second, we’ve procured a site license for Fuze, an easy to use online meeting + videoconferencing application. Video Conferencing… Read more »

  • Misfiled Messages in GMail

    Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jan 30, 2014 The issue Google has notified Berkeley Lab Google administrators that a recent global Google issue may have affected messages in 167 LBL GMail accounts. This caused some actions that were taken, e.g., deleting a message, marking it as spam, or moving it to a folder to be inadvertently applied… Read more »

  • Lucidchart added to Google Marketplace Apps

    Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jan 17, 2014 Announcing Lucidchart Update: 10/24/14 – Lucidchart has been extended now that the initial pilot has been successful. It is now considered a core application offered to Lab Users. Background We are pleased to announce the addition of LucidChart  (a web based diagramming tool) to the applications available through… Read more »

  • Major IT Outage Scheduled for January 17

    Adam Stone posted on Jan 13, 2014 Most IT services including many business systems, windows home directories, and collaboration tools will be offline this Friday (1/17) evening for four hours in order to upgrade storage hardware. This outage will also impact IT hosted websites including TABL and News Center as well as sites hosted for scientific… Read more »

  • Unscheduled Outage Dec 30 2013

    Adam Stone posted on Jan 03, 2014 On December 30th at approximately 12PM, fire alarm maintenance in the main networking data center resulted in an unexpected and unscheduled shutdown of all power to the datacenter including all backup power systems. This resulted in a temporary complete loss of connectivity to the LBL site, outage to site… Read more »

  • Responsive Design at Berkeley Lab

    Adam Stone posted on Dec 09, 2013 Congratulations to our colleagues in procurement on the relaunch of procurement.lbl.gov The site makes use of the new Berkeley Lab WordPress Templates, our new WordPress Hosting service, and is a “child” of the new LBL Multisite.  Procurement.lbl.gov is also one of the first sites at LBL based on Responsive Design principles,… Read more »

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