LSSU Technology News & Announcements

The LSSU Technology News & Announcements is where we will post interesting information, updates and notices of outages or known issues.

This page is for administrators, faculty and staff. Students, parents and the public are welcome.

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

9-21-16 Google Drive and docs - New Features

From Google Update Blog:
Innovation is critical for business success, so we're constantly trying to build tools that enable our customers to do more. Starting today, you can use Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other new and improved features in Drive search on web to find files easier and faster. You'll also see a couple of highly-requested Google Docs features that have been added based on your feedback (thank you!).
Also - Google Docs now has Columns!

Read the full post  - https://drive.googleblog.com/2016/09/what-you-love-about-google-search-now.html

Thursday, September 15, 2016

9-15-16 Gmail Issue Resolved

Gmail
Sep 15th 2016, 08:04

 September 15, 2016 1:04:00 AM PDT
The problem with Gmail should be resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better. If you are still experiencing an issue, please contact us via the Google Help Center.
The issue is resolved for the vast majority of affected customers and we will be working individually with the remaining customers affected. We will conduct an internal investigation of this issue and make appropriate improvements to our systems to prevent or minimize future recurrence. We will provide a more detailed analysis of this incident to the affected customers once we have completed our internal investigation.

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

9-14-17 Gmail issue reported

Gmail
Sep 14th 2016, 15:16

 September 14, 2016 8:16:00 AM PDT
We're investigating reports of an issue with Gmail. We will provide more information shortly.
Based on reports, it affects only Google for Work Gmail users. The users are redirected to a page with 'Service not available, contact your administrator'.
Workaround: Disable Gmail Service in Admin Console UI, save the changes, enable it back, save the changes.