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  • Upcoming Login Screen Refresh Paves the Way for Passkeys

    Upcoming Login Screen Refresh Paves the Way for Passkeys

    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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • New Chemdraw Site License and on-site seminar

    Adam Stone posted on Oct 26, 2010 IT has helped coordinate a sitewide license for ChemDraw.  Anyone at LBL can use the software at no cost.  Learn more>>> We have also arranged for an on-site technical seminar on ChemBioDraw.  The first session will be held from 10am – 11:30 am in the bldg 66 Auditorium on… Read more »

  • Priority Inbox for Gmail

    Adam Stone posted on Oct 26, 2010 Priority Inbox can help save you time if you’re overwhelmed with the amount of email you get. It attempts to automatically identify your important incoming messages and separates them out from everything else. Gmail uses a variety of signals to prioritize your incoming messages, including who you’ve emailed and… Read more »

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