May, 2015
Customers facing issues with Lync clients
May. 27, 2015—Vanderbilt IT would like to bring the following to the community’s attention regarding issues with Lync. Customers have reported problems when joining meetings and expanding Lync distribution groups. VUIT has corrected an issue with a certificate chain and has removed two Lync servers that appeared to be the cause. This has mitigated most customer-reported difficulties....
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance: Microsoft Exchange and Lync Environments
May. 22, 2015—Vanderbilt IT will perform monthly Windows server security update deployment, as well as any prior monthly patches to the Core Infrastructure Unified Communication servers, beginning Friday, May 22 at 10 p.m. and ending Saturday, May 23 at 4 a.m. All non-redundant services will be impacted by a server reboot after the patches are installed. Rolling...
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance: AVST Voicemail Servers
May. 14, 2015—Vanderbilt IT will install Microsoft security and OS patches to AVST Voicemail servers on Sunday, May 17 from midnight to 12:35 a.m. While the server is rebooted, the following will occur for 20-35 minutes: 1) Outside callers will receive a prompt stating that their message delivery may be delayed because the system is undergoing maintenance....
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance: Windows Environment
May. 14, 2015—Vanderbilt IT will install Microsoft security patches on Windows servers on Sunday, May 17 from midnight to 6:00 a.m. The majority of systems are redundant, and a customer service outage is not expected. This change does not include any electronic messaging or unified communications servers. The following systems will be briefly unavailable while the servers...
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance: Lync Environment
May. 14, 2015—Vanderbilt IT will perform a change that will configure federation routes and media traffic from Lync 2010 to Lync 2013 on Friday, May 15 from 10 to 11:30 p.m. During this time, instant messages with users in organizations outside of Vanderbilt (with which Vanderbilt is federated) will not be sent or received. Lync voice and...