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Avaya Messaging, New Voicemail Coming May 20
Telephone Services is pleased to announce a new voicemail service coming May 20 called Avaya Messaging. Your new voicemail service provides a web access portal for managing messages and settings for Lab phones online and a new feature that allows you to define “find me” rules. Read more »
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HPC Services at DellXL this week
Gary M Jung posted on Apr 24, 2015 HPC Services staff members Yong Qin and Michael Jennings gave talks highlighting their respective software tools, wwibcheck and NHC, at the DellXL High Performance Computing (HPC) conference this week, April 21-23, 2015, in Boulder, Colorado (agenda). Most HPC systems rely on a high-performance, low-latency interconnect network to connect compute nodes together in a way… Read more »
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Webspace End of Life Announcement
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Apr 22, 2015 Webspace was one of our early ventures into providing a web based collaboration tool that allowed easy sharing of documents and access from any location in the world. We plan to end service in July 2016. Google Drive has become a viable alternative to Webspace for many… Read more »
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Policy on Smartwatches Apple Watch and Fitness Trackers
Adam Stone posted on Apr 09, 2015 IT has issued new policy on the acquisition of smart watches and fitness trackers including the new Apple Watch (which everyone calls iWatch but is not actually called that). The acquisition of these products now requires additional justification and approvals. The policy is available to authenticated LBL employees by clicking… Read more »
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eRoom News – Down To 21 And Counting
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 31, 2015 We continue to work on the retirement of our legacy eRoom service (an on-premise web content service used for over a decade). We will terminate the service on or before December 2015. Many of these eRooms have been migrated to AODocs libraries for archival and reference purposes. (We… Read more »
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World Backup Day 2015 – Time for a Backup Checkup
Adam Stone posted on Mar 27, 2015 World Backup Day: Is your data backed up? The IT Division is taking part in celebrating World Backup Day by encouraging the Lab community to double check that your backups are working and ensure that all your important data is backed up. Don’t Be An April Fool – Do… Read more »
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New Google Calendar App for iOS devices
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 16, 2015 Following the successful launch of a Calendar app for Android last Fall, Google released a version for iOS devices last week. For “power” calendar users, we hope this solves some of the issues we have seen with the built-in calendar app on iPhones. The description for the… Read more »
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Planned upgrade of IDM equipment – Friday March 13, 4pm
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 12, 2015 This work has been completed successfully with no interruption in service The Identity Management Team will perform a planned upgrade to equipment that front ends our services (the enterprise directory, authentication systems, phonebook, etc). This is a security upgrade and will be done at 4pm, Friday March 13.… Read more »
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Unscheduled outage – Google Apps Marketplace Apps – March 5
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 05, 2015 From approximately 7:30am through 9:00am March 5, a problem at Google resulted in authentication failures when Lab users attempted to use any of our Marketplace Apps (Lucidchart, Smartsheet, GQueues . etc). Read more »
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Smartsheet Unscheduled Outage – March 4 2015 – Resolved
Adam Stone posted on Mar 04, 2015 This issue is resolved. Prior details: Smartsheet is currently experiencing an issue which prevents users from logging in. More at: http://status.smartsheet.com/ Read more »
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Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor Developer Training
Gary M Jung posted on Feb 28, 2015 Intel is sponsoring a free one-day in-depth training on the Xeon Phi Coprocessor to be held at Perseverance Hall on March 27th, 2015 from 9:00am to 4:00pm. This training will provide software developers the foundation needed for modernizing their code to take advantage of parallel architectures found in… Read more »
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IT and ESNet Help ALS Researchers Move their Big Data
Gary M Jung posted on Feb 28, 2015 Working at the ALS generates huge amounts of data, and for many years this has caused users to have to carry hard drives and USB drives between the ALS and their home institutions for acquisition and analysis of experimental data. To avoid the physical transport of data and… Read more »
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Unscheduled IT Outage Feb 27 2015
Adam Stone posted on Feb 27, 2015 Unscheduled outage resulting from power-related problem on Feb 27, 2015 beginning at 3:48 PM. As of 4:50 PM most services are now operational. More at status.lbl.gov Read more »
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