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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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Version 2 of Directory Services Update Released
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 21, 2011 Version 2 of the Directory services program was released on November 21. When a lab employee or affiliate needs to update information in the lab directory, go to www.lbl.gov/ds – “Edit your directory entry” With the agreement of the Business Managers at their 11/4/11 meeting, we changed the… Read more »
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New Look For Gmail
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 17, 2011 The New Look for Gmail has been turned on for Berkeley Lab. This is similar to the look consumer users of Gmail have had for a number of weeks. It may take awhile for this to roll out to all users. One change may confuse you: where… Read more »
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Making Videoconferencing Work Better
Adam Stone posted on Nov 15, 2011 If you’ve ever used or thought about room based videoconferencing systems in the past half decade, you’ve probably gotten frustrated. These setups are expensive, somewhat proprietary despite their support for open standards, shockingly frustrating to use, and often end up as wall decoration in conference rooms where they are… Read more »
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New Apple Rep Visits Lab
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 15, 2011 Russ Pond is the new DOE (and Berkeley Lab) Account Manager for the Government Enterprise Division at Apple. He and Ron Ustich (continuing on as our primary systems engineer contact) attended the Nov 14 Mac User Group Meeting and then visited staff in the IT Division. Future presentations… Read more »
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Supercomputing as a Service
Nina Lucido posted on Nov 11, 2011 LBL CIO Rosio Alvarez and HPC Services Manager Gary Jung present their experiences using cloud services for HPC at Information Week’s GovCloud 2011 conference in Washington DC. More. Read more »
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HPC For Advanced Materials
Nina Lucido posted on Nov 11, 2011 Researchers from Berkeley Lab and MIT have teamed up to develop a new tool, as part of the Materials Project, led by LBL PI Kristen Persson to speed up the development for new materials. The project incorporates the use of supercomputing resources including Lawrencium to characterize the properties of inorganic compounds. More. Read more »
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Voice Mail Unavailable Nov 12 from 10am-11am
Nina Lucido posted on Nov 10, 2011 The Lab’s voice mail system will be unavailable from 10 a.m. until approximately 11 a.m. on Saturday (November 12) for system maintenance and updates. During this time, voice mail messages will be unavailable and callers will be unable to leave messages. For more information, contact Telephone Services (x7997). Read more »
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Data Center Utilization Report – October 2011
Nina Lucido posted on Nov 09, 2011 What was installed: Cluster support group added the following: 17 new nodes added to Lawrencium Condo (LR2) 1 node added to ESD cluster Business Systems group added the following: No new systems What was removed: Cluster support group removed the following: jbei-1 cluster was turned off but remains… Read more »
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Google+ Added to LBL Google Apps
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 03, 2011 Google+ was released to Enterprise Customers and we added it to the LBL domain on October 27. Feature highlights Google+ Profiles: Create a profile with information about yourself. For example, you can add information about your projects or expertise and share it only with other employees. You can choose… Read more »
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Conference Rooms That Work – Continued
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 »
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Business Systems Back Online
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 »
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New Presentation Editor for Google Docs
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 »
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