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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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Internet Protocol version 6
(mjchoung@lbl.gov) posted on Jun 20, 2011 What is it? The Internet operates by transferring data in small packets that are independently routed across networks as specified by an international communications protocol known as the Internet Protocol. Since the early 1980’s, Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) has been the publicly used version of the Internet Protocol, and… Read more »
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Power Shutdown Scheduled for Saturday, June 18
Nina Lucido posted on Jun 14, 2011 A power shutdown is scheduled for this Saturday, June 18 to enable necessary maintenance on the Lab’s power distribution system. The power shutdown involves several buildings, including the 50 complex, which houses the Lab’s central IT systems. Most IT systems will be offline from Friday, 6/17 at 6:00pm through… Read more »
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New Training Opportunities
(mjchoung@lbl.gov) posted on Jun 09, 2011 Confused by the Gmail web interface? Interested in a class that provides insight into what’s new in Office 2010? The IT Summer training program may be what you are looking for. Courses in Google mail, calendar, docs, and sites, along with two specialty courses (Smartsheet and What’s new in Office 2010) are now available… Read more »
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EndNote Users – Share your thoughts
Nina Lucido posted on Jun 08, 2011 On June 20 from 10-11AM in Perseverance Hall, Dr. Jason Rollins, Director of Product Development for EndNote, will be visiting Berkeley Lab to gather feedback on the product and share its future directions. The one hour session will cover the newest capabilities of EndNote as well as provide LBL… Read more »
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Setting Appointment Slots in Google Calendar
(mjchoung@lbl.gov) posted on Jun 07, 2011 When sharing calendars through Google Calendar, lab users may notice empty time slots in other users’ calendars. Most times, those empty slots indicate availability for a meeting, event, etc. However, sometimes users may not be available for any empty time slot due to workload or other arrangements that are not… Read more »
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Changing the Default Meeting Length and Print Options in Google Calendar
Instead of using the standard 30 minute time slots for meetings, users can change the default meeting length to 15 minutes. Specifically, rather than having to manually change the meeting length by clicking into the event page, users can change the default length in the Google Calendar settings page. Additionally, Google Calendar now allows users… Read more »
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Announcing the IT Survey
Adam Stone posted on May 27, 2011 IT has retained MOR associates to conduct our User Satisfaction and Strategy Survey. A sample of LBL employees will be selected by MOR and provided with unique links to the survey instrument. The responses will help IT division better understand satisfaction and use of our services, as well as… Read more »
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Revision History in Google Docs
(mjchoung@lbl.gov) posted on May 25, 2011 Google Docs now allows you to view all changes made to spreadsheets, documents and drawings by each collaborator. After accessing revision history through Google Docs, a pane will appear on the right-hand side with the collaborator’s name, as well as the time and date of change. In addition, Google Docs… Read more »
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HPC Services Staff Address 4th Annual Moab User Group Conference
(mjchoung@lbl.gov) posted on May 19, 2011 Last week, Jackie Scoggins from the High Performance Computing Services group addressed the 4th annual Adaptive Computing Moab User Group Conference (MoabCon 2011)) which was held May 10-12 in Provo, Utah. Moab is one of the most widely used job schedulers at large HPC installations. Jackie Scoggins presented a case… Read more »
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IT Division Hosts Le Conte Elementary for Education Outreach Program
(mjchoung@lbl.gov) posted on May 19, 2011 Last week, the IT Division hosted Le Conte Berkeley Elementary School’s 2nd grade students for the second year of its educational outreach program. With the goal of introducing young students to the fundamentals of technology, the IT staff developed a curriculum that educated the students on how computers and networks support the science at Berkeley… Read more »
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Color Coded Events and Pivot Tables
Adam Stone posted on May 18, 2011 Google Calendar now offers the ability to color code events in a single calendar. More information: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/color-code-your-google-calendar-events.html Pivot Tables are now available within Google Spreadsheets. This important feature has been frequently requested by LBL users. More information: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/05/pivot-tables-now-in-google-spreadsheets.html Read more »
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LBL Employees Honored for Energy Efficient Ethernet Standard
Adam Stone posted on May 17, 2011 Mike Bennett from the IT Division received an IEEE award sponsored by the IEEE Standards Association. The award was presented in recognition for leadership in developing IEEE Std 802.3az-2010™, more commonly known as Energy Efficient Ethernet or EEE in the industry. The standard was published in the fall of… Read more »
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