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July, 2014

VUIT Schedule Maintenance: Wireless Routing Change

Jul. 30, 2014—On Saturday, August 2, 2014 from 2:15 -3:15 AM the Vanderbilt University Information Technology (VUIT) Network Design and Engineering (ND & E) team will implement approved Change 43772. This change is another step toward a unified University and Medical Center wireless enterprise network. All VUMC wireless will migrate to the Enterprise wireless distribution routers to...

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Perimeter TAP Upgrade

Jul. 29, 2014—On July 30, 2014, from 3:00 AM – 7:00 AM Vanderbilt University Information Technology (VUIT) Network Services and Security Operations will upgrade the perimeter Packet Broker Test Access Point (TAP) device operating system and change the physical cabling to/from the TAP, for both the Hill and Bryan building locations. No downtime is expected for this...

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RESOLVED: Delay in email delivery for some users

Jul. 18, 2014—Both issues were resolved between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM on 7/17.  While the characteristics were similar, these are two distinct and separate events.   The VUgmail issue occurred during change # 43643, the script used to update the external email address over-wrote the primary SMTP address with the same value for 51% of the...

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Delay in email delivery for some users

Jul. 17, 2014—VUIT technicians are working to resolve two separate issues with email routing that is causing email to queue.  Both issues were identified this morning. Some number of undergraduate students using VUgmail are affected as are some users of Vmail (Exchange). Technicians are working to determine scope and resolve the issues.  VUIT will post updates to...

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VUIT Scheduled Maintenance; Windows Environment

Jul. 11, 2014—VUIT will install Microsoft Security patches to Windows servers beginning Sunday, 07/13, 12:00 AM and ending Sunday, 07/13, 6:00 AM. During this time, the following systems will be briefly unavailable while the servers are rebooted. apphost1a its-hcwnap80 (apphost2) SQL Cluster jump01, strawberry (windows jump boxes) wins1, wins2 EPO Magic prt1, prt2 ITS hosted SharePoint sites...

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