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 »

Conference Rooms That Work – Continued

October 27, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Oct 27, 2011 We’ve now almost completed the retrofit of the three B50 conference rooms. All three have identical controllers and interfaces to make it easy for staff to move between the rooms. All three rooms have bright, current generation projectors with both HDMI and VGA connectors – and support for virtually… Read more »
Business Systems Back Online

October 21, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Oct 21, 2011 As of 11pm on on October 20, all production business systems are back online from the storage systems failure earlier in the day. Initial testing of the business applications has been completed and further testing as well as consultation with the functional owners will occur Oct 21 AM. Again,… Read more »
New Presentation Editor for Google Docs

October 20, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Oct 20, 2011 For customers on Google’s Rapid Release Schedule (which includes Berkeley Lab), a new Presentation Editor within the Google Docs suite of tools is being deployed. Google has added many of your most requested features, including: Transitions to move between slides with simple fades or spicier 3D effects Animations… Read more »
eLinks Q&A in Reading Lounge

October 17, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Oct 17, 2011 Margery Tibbits and Lena Zentall of the California Digital Library, will be on site to demo and answer questions about eLinks, from 3:30 to 4:30PM on October 24th in the Reading Lounge 54-002. eLinks let you link to full electronic text articles in journals subscribed to by the LBL… Read more »
Use of Carbonite Continues to Grow!

October 7, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Oct 07, 2011 The IT Division introduced Carbonite backup service for PC and Mac computers in January 2011. Carbonite is reliable, cost effective and easy-to-use. Since introduction, we have over 500 customers. Carbonite is easy to install and runs unobtrusively in the background. It securely encrypts data for protection. More importantly, restoring… Read more »
Data Center Utilization Report – September 2011

October 6, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Oct 06, 2011 What was installed: Cluster support group added the following: No new systems Business Systems group added the following: No new systems What was removed: Cluster support group removed the following: Retired jbei-1 cluster Business Systems group removed the following: No systems September average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE): 1.51 Average… Read more »
MATLAB Technical Sessions – October 17

September 27, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Sep 27, 2011 October 17, Bldg 50 Auditorium – two more Matlab Sessions Although registration is not mandatory, please consider doing so for planning purposes. Register here Agenda Presenter: Isaac Noh, Application Engineer 9:45 – 10:00 a.m. Registration and sign-in. Walk ins are welcome. 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Session 1:… Read more »
Introducing UC eLinks for Journals

September 26, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Sep 26, 2011 UC eLinks is a new LBL Library service that makes it easy to go from journal database to article is just a few clicks. Use eLinks from within Library databases such as Google Scholar, Web of Science, Springer, and JSTOR, to easily find online copies of the article you… Read more »
Google Users Group – Update

September 21, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Sep 21, 2011 The LBL Google Users Group now has 181 members. We had our first meeting on 9/2/11 (in bldg 50 auditorium and via Readytalk). 20-25 people attended in person and another 18 remotely. Weekly “GoogleGrams” try to keep everyone updated on current issues impacting any of the core Google… Read more »
Data Center Utilization Report – August 2011

September 15, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Sep 15, 2011 What was installed: Cluster support group added the following: No new systems Business Systems group added the following: No new systems What was removed: Cluster support group removed the following: Lawrencium cluster (7 Racks) Business Systems group removed the following: No systems August average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE): 1.51… Read more »
Calendar Interoperability with Campus

August 29, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Aug 29, 2011 When LBL moved to Google Calendar as its personal/enterprise calendaring program in 2010, one important loss of functionality was the ability to seamlessly schedule meetings with UCB Faculty and Staff. This functionality was only available when both institutions used Oracle Calendar; however, both institutions were moving to standards based… Read more »
Resolved – Was-Visitor WIreless Outage Aug 26-27

August 26, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Aug 26, 2011 Update: Visitor Wireless was restored at noon on Saturday. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original Information: A hardware issue has caused visitor wireless to be unavailable as of 10.19PM Friday Aug 26. Hardware replacement will begin Saturday morning at approximately 8AM. We apologize for the inconvenience. Read more »