IT News

Upcoming Login Screen Refresh Paves the Way for Passkeys

June 9, 2025

In our ongoing efforts to enhance security and user experience across the Berkeley Lab community, IT is preparing for a significant upgrade to our authentication methods with the planned Lab-wide rollout of Passkeys later this year. As an initial step in this transition, we will soon be releasing an update to the authentication screens you… Read more »

New Gmail Gadgets to Try

June 22, 2011

(mjchoung@lbl.gov) posted on Jun 22, 2011 Gmail has a feature in Labs called “Add any gadget by URL” that allows users to add iGoogle gadgets (or any gadget that is an .xml file) to the side of your Gmail account. In order to install any of these gadgets: 1. From your Gmail account, go to the… Read more »
Pasting Images into Messages

June 22, 2011

(mjchoung@lbl.gov) posted on Jun 22, 2011 Initially, Gmail employed a function that let users drag/drop images from their desktop right into the compose window. Now, with the latest version of Google Chrome, users can paste images right from their clipboard. For example, users can copy an image from the internet, email, etc. and paste it right into the… Read more »
InCommon Expands to Include Research Organizations

June 21, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Jun 21, 2011 Ed Note: The following press release from InCommon discussed Berkeley Lab’s role in Federated Identity projects. Berkeley Lab was the first National Laboratory to join InCommon. —- Press Release from InCommon: Ann Arbor, Mich. June 21, 2011 Research organizations, including government labs and virtual organizations, can now join InCommon… Read more »
Internet Protocol version 6

June 20, 2011

(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 »
Power Shutdown Scheduled for Saturday, June 18

June 14, 2011

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 »
New Training Opportunities

June 9, 2011

(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 »
EndNote Users – Share your thoughts

June 8, 2011

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 »
Setting Appointment Slots in Google Calendar

June 7, 2011

(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 »
Changing the Default Meeting Length and Print Options in Google Calendar

June 1, 2011

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 »
Announcing the IT Survey

May 27, 2011

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 »
Revision History in Google Docs

May 25, 2011

(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 »
HPC Services Staff Address 4th Annual Moab User Group Conference

May 19, 2011

(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 »