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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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Major IT Outage Scheduled for January 17
Adam Stone posted on Jan 13, 2014 Most IT services including many business systems, windows home directories, and collaboration tools will be offline this Friday (1/17) evening for four hours in order to upgrade storage hardware. This outage will also impact IT hosted websites including TABL and News Center as well as sites hosted for scientific… Read more »
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Unscheduled Outage Dec 30 2013
Adam Stone posted on Jan 03, 2014 On December 30th at approximately 12PM, fire alarm maintenance in the main networking data center resulted in an unexpected and unscheduled shutdown of all power to the datacenter including all backup power systems. This resulted in a temporary complete loss of connectivity to the LBL site, outage to site… Read more »
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Responsive Design at Berkeley Lab
Adam Stone posted on Dec 09, 2013 Congratulations to our colleagues in procurement on the relaunch of procurement.lbl.gov The site makes use of the new Berkeley Lab WordPress Templates, our new WordPress Hosting service, and is a “child” of the new LBL Multisite. Procurement.lbl.gov is also one of the first sites at LBL based on Responsive Design principles,… Read more »
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Google Takeout Service
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Dec 06, 2013 Google is enhancing their takeout service (the ability to extract your data out of Google Services). Calendar data has recently been added and Gmail is next. A recent techcrunch article provides some background. When you are logged in to Google, look for the person icon in the upper right and… Read more »
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Major IT Outage Scheduled for Evening of December 13
Adam Stone posted on Nov 27, 2013 Update: This work was completed on schedule. Most IT services including many business systems, windows home directories, and collaboration tools will be offline this Friday (12/13) evening for four hours in order to upgrade storage hardware. This outage will also impact IT hosted websites including TABL and News Center… Read more »
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Wireless – Upgraded
Adam Stone posted on Nov 21, 2013 We’re really excited to begin rolling out new and improved wireless coverage throughout the Laboratory. The new access points being deployed include support for Wireless N for faster speeds, and the access points themselves actually measure interference and can adapt their signals to improve coverage. Coverage inside buildings… Read more »
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Simple Video Capture for Recording Things like Job Interviews
Adam Stone posted on Nov 21, 2013 The interview committee is finally assembled, the candidate scheduled, and then “something comes up” for one the members. While not quite as good as being there in person, it’s easy to record an interview and share it with committee members who may not have had a chance to attend.… Read more »
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Personal Web Pages
Adam Stone posted on Nov 20, 2013 Researchers often use personal web pages to feature their research and publications. IT supports and recommends a few ways to accomplish this. Google Sites: Visit sites.google.com and click “create site”. Create the content and set the sharing options to be publicly accessible. If you want a custom subdomain… Read more »
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Network Outages Scheduled for Sat Nov 30
Adam Stone posted on Nov 20, 2013 IT has scheduled outages of the wired and wireless networks for Saturday November 30th during the Thanksgiving holiday to accommodate multiple upgrades to the network infrastructure. Details on both outages can be found below: Outage Summary Information Date: Saturday, November 30, 2013 Outage #1: Multiple Outages to Wired Network at… Read more »
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Outage Nov 6 2013
Adam Stone posted on Nov 06, 2013 The failure of a piece of power distribution hardware in one the datacenters in building 50 led to a ~20 minute outage of key IT services on Nov 6. Services impacted included www.lbl.gov, commons, some directory services, email delivery, and numerous other services on two subnets. The outages began… Read more »
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Deployment Starts for New Video Conferencing Systems
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 01, 2013 As part of a lab initiative last year, the IT Division developed a new approach to Video Conferencing Systems that addresses the needs of customers who join via desktop, laptop, or mobile devices. After reviewing industry trends, the results of peer reviews, and our own recent experience, it… Read more »
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Google Releasing New “Google Bar”
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 01, 2013 The black menu bar Google users have become accustomed to over the past year is being replaced over the next few days. The new look is show below – assuming you happen to be in the Calendar Application. It features an application launcher which is on the same… Read more »
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