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Cumulative updates for SharePoint Farm I (University)
May. 4, 2017—Beginning on at 11 p.m. on Monday, May 8, and ending at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, May 9, Vanderbilt IT Collaboration will apply updates to Project Server 2010 in SharePoint Farm I (University). This will ensure that the SharePoint site remains in compliance in order to receive Microsoft support if required. During these updates, SharePoint...
VUIT to patch Windows 2008 on AVST voicemail servers
Apr. 20, 2017—Vanderbilt IT will install Microsoft Windows 2008 operating system patches on AVST voicemail servers from 12 a.m. to 12.45 a.m. on Sunday, April 23, in order to maintain security of the Microsoft Windows operating system for these servers. Upon patching, VUIT will restart the CallXpress server. Skype for Business (Lync) voicemail will not be affected...
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance to Install Windows OS patches
Apr. 20, 2017—Vanderbilt IT will install Microsoft security patches on university Windows servers beginning at 11 p.m. on Saturday, April 22, and ending at 6 a.m. on Sunday, April 23. During this timeframe, non-redundant services will be impacted by a server reboot after the patches are installed.
VUMC IT to migrate routing and switching to new VUH data center routers
Feb. 17, 2017—On Saturday, Feb. 18, from 4 to 11 a.m., VUMC IT will perform change C0068671 (pegasus.mc.vanderbilt.edu/ViewChange.aspx?id=C0068671). This change covers the work required to migrate all layer-3 and layer-2 components from the legacy Cisco Catalyst 6509 and Catalyst 6513 routers to the new Cisco Nexus 7710 routers. There will be a rolling outage for every network within...
VUIT to shut down legacy DNS servers beginning Jan. 17
Jan. 16, 2017—The following message impacts owners of systems operating on Domain Name Service (DNS) infrastructure. Beginning Jan. 17, Vanderbilt IT will begin shutting down legacy DNS servers to shift all users to new DNS servers. This change will only impact systems that have not yet moved to the new DNS servers. VUIT will conduct a series...
VUMC IT to change out Juniper VUH-SRX (Guardian) Cluster
Dec. 5, 2016—On Saturday, Dec. 10, beginning at 5:00 a.m., VUMC IT will implement change C0074001 https://pegasus.mc.vanderbilt.edu/ViewChange.aspx?id=C0074001; changing out the legacy Juniper VUH-SRX (Guardian) firewall. This change will cause a five-minute service interruption between 6:30 a.m. and 6:35 a.m. to all applications and databases that reside within the Juniper environment while it is switched out. During the...
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance: VUIT HOSTING
Dec. 1, 2016—On Sunday, Dec. 4, from 12 to 6 a.m., Vanderbilt IT will apply December’s monthly Windows server security updates, as well as any previous monthly patches still required. These updates will help maintain security and software for core Microsoft Windows operating systems. All non-redundant services will be impacted by a server reboot after patch...
VUMC IT to perform VDC Router Lifecycle
Oct. 26, 2016— On Friday, Nov. 11, between 11:35 p.m. and 5:30 a.m., VUMC IT will perform change COO68671. This change covers the work required to migrate all layer three and layer two components from the legacy Cisco Catalyst 6509 and Catalyst 6513 routers to the new Cisco Nexus 7710 routers. There will be a rolling outage...
Ping single sign-on outage causing log-in issues with some cloud applications
Oct. 12, 2016—On Wednesday, Oct. 12, Vanderbilt University users have experienced issues logging in to some cloud services (such as Box, Concur, Gartner, etc.) because Ping’s single sign-on feature has been down. Vanderbilt IT restored log-in functionality around noon and is working with vendors to fully correct the problem. Users may continue to experience slowness while logging...
All hosted Virtual Machines migrate to a new vSwitch
Oct. 11, 2016—Beginning Thursday, Oct. 13, at 8 p.m. and ending Friday, Oct. 14, at 8 a.m., Vanderbilt IT will migrate all VUIT virtual machines (VMs) from the existing vSwitch to a newly provisioned vSwitch that supports sFlow. This migration is part of the transition to FireScope, the new discovery/monitoring tool that will be deployed as part...
Legacy Infoblox DNS Shutdown
Oct. 10, 2016—On Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 9:00 a.m. the VUMC IT Linux Team will implement approved Change 73066. The Medical Center’s legacy DNS servers are no longer supported and will be shut down by the Linux team. The legacy servers are 160.129.6.22, 160.129.233.40, and 160.129.48.90. Any legacy systems that have not yet been moved over to...
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance to Install Windows OS patches – VUIT Hosting services Application servers
Jul. 14, 2016—Vanderbilt IT will apply monthly Windows server security updates, as well as any prior month patches that are still required by VUIT Hosting Service’s application servers, on Monday, July 18, between midnight and 6 a.m. These updates will maintain security and software for core Microsoft Window operating systems. All non-redundant services will be impacted by...
Increase resources on Print Server PRT2 and upgrade Networker to latest version 8.2
Jul. 14, 2016—Beginning Sunday, July 17, at 9 p.m., Vanderbilt IT will implement a change to increase print queues and resources in order to handle a greater work load and to resolve performance issues with the print server. The process will take approximately 90 minutes. Following this change, VUIT will upgrade the server backup agent from version...
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance: Reboot Secondary Perimeter Firewall at Bryan
Jun. 28, 2016—Vanderbilt IT will reboot the Perimeter firewall at Bryan and then failover the VPN and perimeter firewalls to the secondary firewall from 6 to 7 a.m. Wednesday, June 29 to troubleshoot issues with connectivity to internal resources from the Vanderbilt network. A failover to the secondary firewall will cause a degraded state for internal VPN...
DiamondIP – DNS/DHCP/IPAM Replacement
May. 2, 2016—If you make DNS changes regularly or perform other network configuration tasks for your department, servers, or applications, please read the following information carefully. On Monday, May 16, Vanderbilt IT (VUIT) will begin the process to abate its legacy Vanderbilt University DiamondIP infrastructure supporting the following critical campus network services: • DNS • DHCP • ...