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November, 2014

VU Directory security update

Nov. 20, 2014—On Tuesday, Nov. 25, Vanderbilt IT will update a security component for VU Directory. The update may affect those who use this service.  VU Directory provides non-Microsoft e-mail clients with “address book” functionality, similar to the Outlook/Exchange global address list (GAL). In most cases, no action or configuration changes are required on your part; VUIT...

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VUIT Scheduled Maintenance: Mailbox Server Lifecycle

Nov. 20, 2014— Vanderbilt IT will lifecycle the hardware on Microsoft Exchange servers ITS-HCWNEM104 and ITS-HCWNEM105 beginning Friday, Nov. 21 at 10 p.m. and ending Saturday, Nov. 22 at 6 a.m. The server will be unavailable between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. Emails will be queued and later released to users’ inboxes once the lifecycle is complete....

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VUIT Scheduled Maintenance: Mailbox Server Lifecycle

Nov. 17, 2014—Vanderbilt IT will lifecycle the hardware on Microsoft Exchange server ITS-HCWNEM111 beginning Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 10 p.m. and ending Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 6 a.m. The server will be unavailable between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. Emails will be queued and later released to users’ inboxes once the lifecycle is complete. Affected users will...

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VUIT Scheduled Maintenance: Exchange Environment

Nov. 13, 2014—VUIT will update the Microsoft Exchange environment in support of the Office 365 project beginning Friday, Nov. 14 at 10 p.m. and ending Saturday Nov. 15 at 2 a.m. During this update, there may be a possible outage to email delivery. If this occurs, email will be queued and then delivered when service is restored.

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VUIT Scheduled Maintenance: Load Balancer Environment

Nov. 13, 2014—VUIT will upgrade the load balancer environment beginning Saturday, Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. and ending Saturday, Nov. 16 at 6 a.m. During this time, brief outages may occur in the following services: Vmail Lync SharePoint Vanderbilt website VUnetID and ePassword logins to applications

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VUIT Scheduled Maintenance: Microsoft Exchange Environment

Nov. 5, 2014—Vanderbilt IT will perform updates to the Microsoft Exchange servers beginning Friday, Nov. 7 at 10 p.m. and ending Saturday, Nov. 8 at 6 a.m. Rolling outages are expected for Exchange servers during this time. Updates will include: Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2936871 Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 Service...

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