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Beginning this week, CalMail lists will no longer send or receive mail. If you forgot to migrate your mailing lists to Google Groups, please do so now!

Starting on Thursday, January 19, 2017, name changes made in the CalNet directory and CalCentral (for students) will begin automatically populating in bConnected Google accounts. This change will involve a one-time “catch up” to sync up any mismatches between CalNet/CalCentral and Google. 2700 users will be impacted by this one-time sync, who can expect to see their Google profile name now match their name in LDAP directory.

The revised deadline for migrating CalMail mailing lists is now January 20, 2017!

A targeted phishing campaign was sent this morning to certain bConnected account holders, purporting to be from Chancellor Dirks. If you received the message, do not open the attachment or enter your credentials if prompted. Review Security Basics 101(link is external) to learn more about how to protect yourself from phishing attacks.

Drop-in consultation (reservations not required)

• Wednesday, December 7, 1:30pm-3:30pm in University Hall, Room 192B

Future workshop scheduled for: 

• Tuesday, December 13, 9:30-11:30am in University Hall, Room 28

Contact bConnected@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) to request migration support.

Researchers: check out the newly published Active Research Data Storage Guidance Grid(link is external)! You can also contact the Research Data Management(link is external) team (researchdata@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)) to schedule a consultation. 

Mailing list owners now have a new default configuration option for migrating and creating lists. This option will allow messages sent from non-members to be held for moderation approval, rather than being rejected. After migrating or creating lists, Group managers will still be able to control who posts to the list through the Google Groups interface. 

CalMail services will be unavailable on Thursday, October 20th from 6:00AM-7:00AM while CalMail storage is upgraded. Apps using CalMail to send mail (such as ServiceNow, JIRA, HCM, etc.) will have their mail queued and delivered when the work has been completed. 

Starting today, UC Berkeley Box users can opt into the new Box web experience(link is external) that offer the following improvements:

The fall semester is in full swing. Now is a great time to migrate your mailing lists!

A common use case for Google Drive users is to download a file from their Drive to modify it locally, and then to re-upload the new version. In the past, this would result in duplicate files (the original and the new one), and users would have trouble finding the latest version. That’s why Google has introduced a change in Drive to deduplicate files which were uploaded in this way.

To increase account security for Google Apps users, starting on October 5, 2016, OAuth 2.0 tokens issued for access to certain products will be automatically revoked when a user's password is changed. Third-party mail apps like Apple Mail and Thunderbird―as well as other applications that use mail scopes(link is external) to access a user’s mail―will stop syncing data upon password reset until a new OAuth 2.0 token has been granted.