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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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UCB and LBNL HPCS partner to launch new Berkeley Research Computing program
Gary M Jung posted on May 05, 2014 The UC Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) celebrates its launch on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. in Sutardja Dai Hall. This exciting new program, developed with the IT Division’s High Performance Computing Services group (HPCS), will help faculty and students with a range of computation and data needs for both… Read more »
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Leaving the Lab? Think About Data Transfer Before You Go
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Apr 24, 2014 Traditional check-out procedures involve physical items like keys, badges and parking passes. Electronic data is as important and often much more difficult to deal with. Think about the places where your electronic history at the lab is stored: Local storage on your workstation (laptop and/or desktop) Network storage… Read more »
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Resources and Strategies for Effective Research Course – May 8
Nina Lucido posted on Apr 17, 2014 Learn how to quickly locate and get a hold of articles, books and other information through subscription journals, databases and libraries worldwide at any time and location without cost to you. Whether you are a scientist, student or staff, this course will provide you with resources and strategies to… Read more »
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Heartbleed security bug and Berkeley Lab
Adam Stone posted on Apr 11, 2014 The recently announced Heartbleed bug has been making the rounds in the media. Visit go.lbl.gov/heartbleed for an assessment of impact on Berkeley Lab systems, to find more information on the bug and to get recommendations from Cyber Security regarding password safety. Read more »
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Archiving Files/Records Class – April 25
Nina Lucido posted on Mar 25, 2014 Are you running out of space in your office? Are you moving to a new office? Is the size of your office being reduced? Are you responsible for dealing with the records of retiring (or already retired) scientists? Are you wondering what to do with all the files you… Read more »
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WINS Servers To Be Retired
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 25, 2014 WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) was a pre DNS method for associating a NetBIOS name with an IP address. Older Windows PC and Samba Servers used this to locate services on a windows network – but in the modern era, this is no longer needed. The Lab has… Read more »
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Google Search Engine to be Replaced on April 20
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 17, 2014 Conversion Completed The conversion to the new Google Custom Search Engine was completed at noon, Wednesday May 7, 2014. On April 20th, 2014, IT will be discontinuing the Google Search Appliance service offering in favor of new Google provided search offering called Google Custom Search. This has implications… Read more »
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Commons Upgrade Planned for March 22
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 14, 2014 Outage Details: Date/Time: Saturday March 22, 2014 8:00am – Noon (The upgrade was completeed on schedule) Type: Scheduled Impacted Services: Commons – including many divisional/group home pages, including IT, Facilities, HR, Nuclear Sciences, and Physics. Background Our institutional wiki (commons.lbl.gov) is due for an upgrade. After some… Read more »
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HPCS presenting at GlobusWorld 2014
Gary M Jung posted on Mar 12, 2014 HPC Services consultant Krishna Muriki and systems engineer Karen Fernsler will be presenting at GlobusWorld 2014 on April 15-17, 2014 at Argonne National Laboratory. The main theme of this year’s conference is Setting Up a Campus Data Service since many campus IT professionals are charged with creating a flexible, highly-available service for moving… Read more »
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New Video Conferencing Offerings
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 »
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Misfiled Messages in GMail
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 »
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Lucidchart added to Google Marketplace Apps
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 »
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