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Campus directory goes green!

As part of our ongoing efforts to save our environment and underscore our fiscal responsibilities, IST has decided to go green with the campus directory. We will now only maintain an online directory and will no longer produce a printed directory. July 8, 2008.

IST-Applications Services reduces staff resources effective July 1

Effective July 1, 2008, Applications Services is reducing staff resources in the state-funded areas of BFS, Payroll, Production Control, and Student Systems. July 7, 2008.

CalMail to retire old URLs

The following CalMail URLs have been replaced with new ones, and effective July 23, 2008, will no longer work: http://bilink.berkeley.edu/, https://calmail.berkeley.edu:10100/, https://calmail.berkeley.edu:50100/, https://lists.berkeley.edu:50100/. July 3, 2008.

Lenovo web portal for students, faculty, and staff

Lenovo and TSW have partnered to bring UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff a new web portal, http://lenovo.com/shop/deals/ucberkeley, where they can purchase computer products directly from Lenovo at discounted prices. July 3, 2008.

New iNews website and newsfeeds

On June 18, 2008, iNews was updated to a new, Drupal-based website running on CalWeb Pro, at the URL http://inews.berkeley.edu/. June 24, 2008.

Reminder: WebFiles service to end Friday, June 27

IST will discontinue the WebFiles service this Friday, June 27, 2008. Customers who wish to keep any of their files will need to move them off of WebFiles prior to June 27. June 24, 2008.

C@B (Connecting@Berkeley) CDs no longer mass produced

Effective this year, 2008, IST will no longer mass produce the C@B CD. The campus security software formerly included on the CD are all available for download from Software Central's Connecting at Berkeley web page. June 23, 2008.

Retirement of Socrates and Arachne servers postponed

IST has postponed the retirement of the Socrates and Arachne servers until at least the end of the 2008 calendar year. June 23, 2008.

UC Berkeley's new gateway website

UC Berkeley's main website, http://www.berkeley.edu/, has been redesigned from the ground up. The NewsCenter article New UC Berkeley gateway website debuted Saturday, June 14 describes some of the campus website's new features, and discusses the redesign process. June 23, 2008.

Campus DHCP service announcement

Announcement of new developments in the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Domain Name System (DNS) services provided by IST, including a new service, updated web pages, and new email lists.
June 20, 2008.

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