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 »

IT-Business Systems Windows Web Servers Scheduled Outage, Friday July 22, 5 pm – 10 pm

July 21, 2011

Laura L Eichman posted on Jul 21, 2011 The IT Business Systems Windows web servers will be offline for scheduled maintenance on Friday July 22, from 5 pm to 10 pm. Approximately 100 IT Business Systems web applications (listed below) will be offline during this move. Click here to see a list of impacted applications Read more »
Google Apps – New Look Continues to Deploy

July 15, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 15, 2011 Google is introducing a new look to their product line. At this point, Gmail and Calendar have been the first to surface these changes, but others are on the way. For example, Gmail has a new theme that can be selected after you click the gear symbol in… Read more »
Account Termination Policy Revisited

July 15, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 15, 2011 Employees are reminded that the IT Help Desk is obligated to terminate Institutional Computer accounts for staff (or guests) leaving the lab. According to the RPM, Division Administrators are to “Ensure that all user IDs and passwords used by terminating employees and guests are deactivated or continued through… Read more »
EndNote Training July 19 2011

July 5, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Jul 05, 2011 IT Division is pleased to offer an EndNote training opportunity on Tuesday, July 19. Senior Product Trainer of Research Software, Donna Kirking, will provide a morning and afternoon session on: Building an EndNote Library The morning session (1.5-hour) will focus on the ways to get data into an EndNote… Read more »
Computer Classes in July

July 1, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 01, 2011 The IT Division is sponsoring 4 “What’s new in Office 2010” classes in July. These sessions last 3.5 hours each and cover the primary differences between Office 2010 and older versions of the Office Product. We also want to mention the eRoom to Gsites transition classes. If you… Read more »
Google Profiles – Plus One – Circles

June 30, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Jun 30, 2011 If you’ve been on any of Google’s consumer tools (like search, Google News, etc) recently, you’ve probably noticed thew new +1 buttons and other new social features. If you’re logged in with your @lbl.gov Google Account, clicking on any of these will result in an error that reads: Google… Read more »
Gcal gets New Look

June 30, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jun 30, 2011 Google is gradually rolling out some changes to the look and feel of their products. In Google calendar you can “opt-in” to the new look by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right and selected the link titled “Try the New Look”. As an example of… Read more »
Data Center Efficiency Workshop

June 30, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Jun 30, 2011 Handouts from Workshop: Individual PDFs: Here (Updated with Presentation 1) July 26, 2011 9AM – 5PM On July 26, Berkeley Lab will offer a special all day Data Center Efficiency Training Workshop for West Coast DOE National Labs, Northern California UC Campuses, and West Coast Federal Data Center Stakeholders. At… Read more »
Voicemail Outage — Update

June 28, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Jun 28, 2011 Voice Mail service has been restored. We apologize for the inconvenience. *********************************************************** Subject: Voice Mail Outage The Laboratory’s voice mail system is experiencing an unplanned service interruption and is currently not available for callers to leave messages or for Lab staff to retrieve existing messages. We do not yet… Read more »
Google Sites is now Mobile

June 28, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Jun 28, 2011 Google Sites now supports access from mobile devices. You can access your sites list and get content from your site optimized for the small screen experience. This new functionality gives LBL users a platform to quickly deliver mobile optimized content. By going to General settings under More actions >… Read more »
UCCSC 2011 Registration is Open

June 28, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Jun 28, 2011 UCCSC – the Computing Conference for the University of California, will be held this year at UC Merced August 7-9. Registration is now open. For more information visit the UCCSC 2011 website: http://uccsc.ucmerced.edu/ Read more »
Chromebook Pilot Begins

June 22, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Jun 22, 2011 Google formally released its first batch of Chromebooks last week and IT has received its first few to test in a pilot program. The Chromebooks, produced by Samsung and Acer, are netbook-style laptops running a customized, pared down version of Linux with the Google Chrome browser. Chromebooks are fast… Read more »