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VUIT Scheduled Maintenance: Sprint Wireless
Sep. 19, 2016—The university’s Sprint cellular system will be down on Thursday, Sept. 22, for a short outage at approximately 7 p.m. and again on Friday, Sept. 23, at 5 a.m. During this time, Mann Wireless will swap out the existing distributed antenna system (DAS) radio heads with more advanced units. Upon removing and replacing the radio...
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance – Monthly Microsoft Patching for September – VUIT Hosting Services Application Servers
Sep. 16, 2016—On Sunday, Sept. 18, between 12:00 a.m. and 6 a.m., Vanderbilt IT will apply September’s monthly Windows Server security updates, as well as any previous monthly patches still required. These updates are to help maintain security and software for core Microsoft Window operating systems. All non-redundant services will be impacted by a server reboot after...
VUMC IT to conduct legacy DNS shutdown
Sep. 12, 2016—DNS users, Beginning on Sept. 15, VUMC IT will begin shutting down legacy DNS servers in order to shift all users to new DNS servers. Due to the number of users still operating on old servers, the inability to determine which users are working on those servers and the possibility that critical systems could...
Phishing email regarding salary raise targets VUMC employees
Jun. 18, 2016—VUMC IT Security Operations has detected a targeted attack against Medical Center users. The phisher sent an email today to VUMC employees with information regarding salary increases. Below is an example of the fraudulent email that many users received: Hello, This serves as a last reminder regarding a 18.75% salary raise on your paycheck starting...
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance to upgrade Enterprise SSL VPN cluster to 8.2R1.
May. 25, 2016—Vanderbilt IT will upgrade the Enterprise SSL VPN environment to 8.2R1 on Friday, May 27, at 5 a.m. and ending Friday, May 27, at 5:30 a.m. This OS version resolves multiple security vulnerabilities that have been identified. Service fixes have also been released with this code version. This change is not expected to cause noticeable...
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance to upgrade Cisco IOS
May. 19, 2016—Vanderbilt IT will upgrade Cisco IOS on Monday, May 23, from 5:45 to 6:30 a.m. This upgrade will fix the SSH lockout bug. During this change, three switches (GLB-3750-151.8, GLB-3750X-151.7 and GLB-3750X-151.9) will be rebooted. Access points, building controllers, cameras and phones will be offline while this occurs. To decrease customer impact, VUIT will reboot...
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance to Install Windows OS patches on AVST voicemail servers
May. 19, 2016—Vanderbilt IT will install Microsoft Windows 2008 operating system patches on AVST voicemail servers from midnight to 3 a.m. on Sunday, May 22, in order to maintain security of the Microsoft Windows OS for the AVST voicemail servers. The restart of the CallXpress service on the system server (VUIT-HCWNAP130) will cause the following during...
Monthly Microsoft Patching – May – CIS General Application Servers
May. 12, 2016—Vanderbilt IT will install Microsoft security patches on Windows servers starting Sunday, May 15, at 12 a.m. and ending Sunday, May 15, at 6 a.m. This will include monthly Windows server security update deployments, as well as any prior month patches that are still required.All non-redundant services will be impacted by a reboot of the...