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New requirement on Technology Use During Foreign Travel
In response to increasing cybersecurity and research security threats, Berkeley Lab has updated its Requirements on Technology Use During Foreign Travel to better protect government systems, Lab data, and employees during international trips. These threats, which include the tracking or seizure of government-issued devices, mirror a wider trend seen across the national lab system and… Read more »
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GCal – Optional attendee feature
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 11, 2010 Google is gradually rolling out another enhancement to the Calendar Product. The ability to label guests as “optional” when you create a meeting is being deployed. We understand that this will be completed by November 16 for all enterprise customers. The following screen shot gives you an idea… Read more »
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Partnering for a More Efficient Data Center
Adam Stone posted on Nov 10, 2010 Over the past four years, Berkeley Lab’s IT and EETD Divisions have been working on a number of cooperative projects around greening our data centers. At an event on Tuesday with industry partner synapsense, EETD researchers and IT’s data center managers discussed the innovations made possible by realtime monitoring.… Read more »
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Carbonite Contract Signed – Connected to be Replaced
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 06, 2010 A contract with Carbonite was signed last week. Initially, IT staff will be working with current backup service customers using “Connected” for their internet based backup solution and replacing it with Carbonite. The new service will be significantly cheaper that either Connected or our own in-house Veritas NetBackup solution –… Read more »
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Enhancements to Google Docs
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 05, 2010 Google continues to bring out new features in Google Docs. For those of you using Gdocs for real time collaborative editing (the same doc at the same time with multiple editors) – improvements in our ability to see what others are updating, the ability to communicate in an… Read more »
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Camtasia Roadmap
Camtasia relay Version 3 is expected to come out soon. We will upgrade our test environment when it does, and start to recruit volunteers willing to test the software. go here for details on what version 3 will offer. Read more »
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Smartsheet Roadmap
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 03, 2010 The Smartsheet road map can be found here. For those of you who would like more granular permission assignment, it looks like some improvements will surface before the end of this calendar year. (the ability to lock down editing of a particular column, for example. Read more »
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Virtual Machine Hosting Status
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 03, 2010 The IT Division has over 100 virtual machines running on an enterprise VMware based environment. The Infrastructure Group within the Lab’s IT Division has been deploying virtual machines using VMWare in a pilot mode since January 2007 Three primary reasons why we think this makes sense: Energy Savings,… Read more »
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Webspace, other business systems down time proposed for Nov 9
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 03, 2010 We would like to confirm the scheduling of a production outage for the evening of 11/9 from 6pm – 10pm. Read more »
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Gcal current issues
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 03, 2010 We have identified several bug fix/enhancement requests to Google. 1. Calendar Loading issues: from time to time a resource or personal calendar fails to load. We have created tickets for a number of these occurrences, as they are reported to the Help Desk. 2. The ability to save… Read more »
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Commons Upgrade in the works
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 03, 2010 Commons will be upgraded to version 3.4 by December 1. A development site is being set up to insure our third party macros and plugins will work with this version. This development site is expected to be ready by November 15 and will be made available to frequent… Read more »
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Offline mode available in Google calendar
Philippe Butler posted on Nov 01, 2010 If you are a traveler or if you just want to the protection of having a version of your calendar (or a co-worker or resource calendar) available on your desktop or laptop when access to the internet or google itself has been interrupted, off line mode is for you.… Read more »
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Unthread Your Gmail
Adam Stone posted on Oct 27, 2010 It’s the #1 feature request from Berkeley Lab users. Now you can turn off Gmail’s Conversation View. Learn more>>> Read more »
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