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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 »

LabTech 2012

March 1, 2012

Nina Lucido posted on Mar 01, 2012 LabTech – The Berkeley Lab Computing and Technology Event By and For Lab Staff This page is about LabTech2012, if you’re looking for information about LabTech2013 coming up on October 10, visit: http://go.lbl.gov/labtech Tuesday, April 24, 2012 11AM-6PM What is LabTech? LabTech is a free event created… Read more »
February 8 Google Apps Classes

February 3, 2012

Nina Lucido posted on Feb 03, 2012 IT Division is currently offering introductory courses, taught by a Learn iT instructor, on Gmail/Google Calendar and Google Docs. We still have room available for our Wednesday, February 8 classes. Other upcoming classes include MS Power Point and MS Office 2010. To take advantage of these and other classes,… Read more »
Understanding Google’s Privacy Policy Changes for Google Apps at Berkeley Lab

January 31, 2012

Adam Stone posted on Jan 31, 2012 Earlier this month, Google made big headlines with a major overhaul of its privacy policies. Google has described these changes as necessary to both simplify its policies and enable more customized content across its services. Critics have charged that the new policies make changes that are privacy-unfriendly and that… Read more »
New Video Conferencing Services and Improvements

January 30, 2012

Adam Stone posted on Jan 30, 2012 2012 – The Year of Videoconferencing OK, maybe too grandiose, but between technology/usability improvements, new products, travel budget pressures, and sustainability goals, things seem like they’re at a real turning point with videoconferencing. IT is excited to announce four new services around videoconferencing (with three products you can try… Read more »
Calculating What’s in the Universe

January 27, 2012

Nina Lucido posted on Jan 27, 2012 Since 2000, the three Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS I, II, III) have surveyed well over a quarter of the night sky and produced the biggest color map of the universe in three dimensions ever. Now scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)… Read more »
GQueues – added to LBL Google Apps

January 24, 2012

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jan 24, 2012 On January 20, we added a Google Marketplace application called GQueues to the portfolio of applications we are offering LBL Google users. We have a one year subscription for the Lab – enough time to find out if LBL can make effective use of this tool. GQueues provides… Read more »
Data Center Utilization Report – December 2011

January 19, 2012

Nina Lucido posted on Jan 19, 2012 What was installed: Cluster support group added the following: No new equipment Business Systems group added the following: No new systems What was removed: Cluster support group removed the following: No new equipment removed Business Systems group removed the following: Several servers previously moved to VM servers resulted in… Read more »
IT Piloting Conference Management Tool

January 18, 2012

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jan 18, 2012 We have recently created a “pilot” service for conference management using Indico, a software tool created at CERN and used extensively for planning and managing large conferences. It continues to be actively maintained and LBL has the latest release. We intent to make this available during FY12 –… Read more »
January 11 Google Apps Classes

January 4, 2012

Adam Stone posted on Jan 04, 2012 IT Division is currently offering introductory courses, taught by a Learn iT instructor, on Gmail/Google Calendar and Google Docs. We still have room available for our Wednesday, January 11 classes. Other upcoming classes include MS Access, and MS Office 2010. To take advantage of these and other classes,register at: https://hris.lbl.gov/self_service/training/ (under… Read more »
Workstation Purchasing Trends

December 21, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Dec 21, 2011 With the Help of Property Management and Procurement, we were able to come up with statistics on recent computer workstation purchase trends (as compared to the total inventory as recorded in the Property System). We also added in recent estimates of lab issued smartphones Workstation Trends Device Total… Read more »
Data Center Utilization Report – November 2011

December 20, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Dec 20, 2011 What was installed: Cluster support group added the following: 1 new storage node added Business Systems group added the following: No new systems What was removed: Cluster support group removed the following: No Systems Business Systems group removed the following: No systems November average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE):… Read more »
Mail List Service

December 19, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Dec 19, 2011 Strategic Direction (as of December 2011). At the present time, the IT Division manages three different mail list services: smartlists, majordomo, and sympa (open source mail list software). We are consolidating these three into an updated version of sympa (which was put into production in the fall of… Read more »