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Whether you’re on vacation or just offline at the end of your workday, Google Calendar can help protect your time out of the office. Google is introducing a new out of office option and customizable working hours to further improve your digital well-being.

Indicate when you’re going out of office

When creating an event on the web, simply select the “Out of office” Calendar entry type. The Out of office object will have a different look on the Calendar grid, signalling to others that you’re unavailable.

To help Google Forms users create more personalized surveys, feedback forms, quizzes, and more, Google is introducing new theme customization options. Specifically, you can now choose colors and fonts to theme your form. 

In order to maintain the highest security standards, promote the safety of customers' data, and align with industry-wide best practices, Box will disable the TLS 1.0 encryption protocol across all Box services on June 25, 2018 (postponed from June 15, 2018). This generally affects older versions of Box Sync, Box Drive, and Box Edit. The bConnected Box Service team will contact any users who have used tools that use the TLS 1.0 encryption protocol within the past 30 days. 

Update 6/15 8:00am: This work was successfully completed, without an outage.

Maintenance on the Earl Warren Hall Data Center firewalls between midnight and 3 AM on Friday, June 15th may affect your ability to log in via CalNet to services including the bConnected Google and Box services, and the bCourses Projects sites.

If you are already logged into Google or Box or bCourses, your access should not be affected.

See the IST Service Status page for more details.

In order to maintain the highest security standards, promote the safety of customers' data, and align with industry-wide best practices, Box will disable the TLS 1.0 encryption protocol across all Box services on June 15, 2018. This generally affects older versions of Box Sync, Box Drive, and Box Edit. The bConnected Box Service team will contact any users who have used tools that use the TLS 1.0 encryption protocol within the past 30 days. 

Wondering how to get more from Box? Join Box for an immersive online event to bring you up to speed on the latest features and services that can help you get the most value from your content with Cloud Content Management. Box Virtual Summit is a half-day gathering filled with live demos, break-out sessions, virtual booths and prizes. You'll have the opportunity to pick and choose which sessions you want to attend, with options for both technical and non-technical content.

We can guarantee you’ll want to work on the go, but we can’t guarantee you’ll have Wi-Fi. Fortunately, native offline capabilities in the new Gmail make it possible to work without interruption—even when you don’t have an internet connection. Starting now, if you're using the new Gmail in a Chrome browser (v61 or higher) can search, write, delete, and archive up to 90 days of messages, even when you're offline.

If you're using the new Gmail, it will now “nudge” you to reply to emails that may have missed and to follow up on emails which haven't been responded to. 

Nudging is on by default with the new Gmail enabled, but you can turn it off from your Gmail settings menu if you choose to. 

As previously announced, the old Drive desktop sync client for Mac and PC—a feature officially known as “Google Drive for Mac/PC”—will start to shut down on May 12th, 2018. After May 12th, the sync client may not work for bConnected Google accounts. 

Google has released a new version of Gmail that includes highly anticipated features like snoozing, smart reply, and the ability to use Google Calendar, Keep, Tasks, and Add-ons while in Gmail.  

Join us for our second annual AIS-palooza! Connect with campus service providers, academic support staff, and other instructors and researchers to get ideas and learn about resources to help you with your work.

Box Drive desktop is here! Box Drive is a desktop app that makes it incredibly easy to work with all of your files — even billions of files — right from your desktop, without using up much hard drive space. 

Why use Box Drive?

The new Google Sites provides a simple and elegant way to create websites. To help your site stand out, you can now customize your favicon—the icon which appears in a browser tab or bookmark list—to match your site. This can help your viewers more easily recognize your site, and help you reinforce your branding.

What to Do if You Missed Your 2-Step Requirement Deadline

• Have your verification device (such as your phone) ready. If you do not have a verification device, contact calnet2-stephelp@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) for assistance.

Did you hear about the new features Box added to Box notes? Keep track of modified notes with Inbox, see what's changed in a note itself with Differences, and see who's recently accessed or edited your notes with Presence.

CalNet 2-Step verification is an added layer of protection for your CalNet account. After you enter your CalNet ID and passphrase, you will be prompted for a second step using a verification device, such as a smartphone. All UC Berkeley staff and faculty are required to enroll in 2-Step in one of two cohorts:

Passing along an opportunity from Google:

Google is in the process of collecting a broad sample of student research papers in order to help train their tools to better accommodate academic work. Those who qualify will receive a $10 gift code by email from Perks, Google's incentives distributor, as a token of appreciation. 

Starting today, you can publish Google Sites to a specific audience. This new feature is great for teams or departments that want to keep their site restricted internally, or to a defined group of people. 

To publish your site to a specific audience, select the “Share with others” icon and change the Published settings to “Specific people can view when published.” Next, add the individuals you want in the “Invite people” box and select “Can view published.”