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 Video Conferencing Offerings

January 31, 2014

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

January 30, 2014

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

January 17, 2014

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

January 13, 2014

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

January 3, 2014

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

December 9, 2013

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 »
Google Takeout Service

December 6, 2013

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Dec 06, 2013 Google is enhancing their takeout service (the ability to extract your data out of Google Services). Calendar data has recently been added and Gmail is next. A recent techcrunch article provides some background. When you are logged in to Google, look for the person icon in the upper right and… Read more »
Major IT Outage Scheduled for Evening of December 13

November 27, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Nov 27, 2013 Update: This work was completed on schedule. Most IT services including many business systems, windows home directories, and collaboration tools will be offline this Friday (12/13) evening for four hours in order to upgrade storage hardware. This outage will also impact IT hosted websites including TABL and News Center… Read more »
Wireless – Upgraded

November 21, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Nov 21, 2013 We’re really excited to begin rolling out new and improved wireless coverage throughout the Laboratory. The new access points being deployed include support for Wireless N for faster speeds, and the access points themselves actually measure interference and can adapt their signals to improve coverage. Coverage inside buildings… Read more »
Simple Video Capture for Recording Things like Job Interviews

November 21, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Nov 21, 2013 The interview committee is finally assembled, the candidate scheduled, and then “something comes up” for one the members. While not quite as good as being there in person, it’s easy to record an interview and share it with committee members who may not have had a chance to attend.… Read more »
Personal Web Pages

November 20, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Nov 20, 2013 Researchers often use personal web pages to feature their research and publications. IT supports and recommends a few ways to accomplish this. Google Sites: Visit sites.google.com and click “create site”. Create the content and set the sharing options to be publicly accessible. If you want a custom subdomain… Read more »
Network Outages Scheduled for Sat Nov 30

November 20, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Nov 20, 2013 IT has scheduled outages of the wired and wireless networks for Saturday November 30th during the Thanksgiving holiday to accommodate multiple upgrades to the network infrastructure. Details on both outages can be found below: Outage Summary Information Date: Saturday, November 30, 2013 Outage #1: Multiple Outages to Wired Network at… Read more »