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Beware of phishing scams linked to Independence Day
Jul. 1, 2013—The Division of Information Technology wants to remind the community of the dangers of email phishing scams, which spike following major news events and holidays, such as July 4. VUIT cautions all Vanderbilt faculty, students and staff to exercise additional caution and to stop and think before clicking on Web links, emails and Facebook posts related...
ITS to retire Vanderbilt Cisco VPN service
Jun. 3, 2013—ITS will retire The Vanderbilt Cisco VPN service on July 17, 2013. This shutdown will only affect users of the Cisco VPN system. For current Cisco VPN users, visit the Cisco shutdown page for further instructions. The new VPN solution is dependent on your current operating system. Cisco users that migrate to Junos Pulse already have an account provisioned....
Beware of phishing linked to Boston Marathon bombings
Apr. 16, 2013—Information Technology Services at Vanderbilt wants to remind the community of the dangers of email phishing scams, which spike following major news events, such as the Boston Marathon bombings April 15.
Data and voice outage on parts of campus
Apr. 10, 2013—UPDATE 8:02 AM: Data network service to all buildings affected has been restored. Phone Service that is based on Lync and Voice over IP has been restored as well. Work toward restoring traditional voice service continues, but is expected to take several hours to a few days to completely restore service. 7:37 AM: A fiber...
iOS upgrade 6.1.2 addresses calendar and network bugs
Mar. 11, 2013—Apple recently released iOS upgrade 6.1.2 that addresses a calendar bug that causes increased network activity (over-polling of email and calendar) for devices (iPhone, iPad) that access Exchange servers. Vanderbilt email for faculty, staff and graduate students runs on Exchange servers. ITS requests that all faculty, staff and graduate students who check their Vanderbilt email from an iOS...
Lync clients available for download for all employees
Jan. 25, 2013—In November 2012, Vanderbilt Information Technology Services (ITS) provisioned Lync standard accounts for all current Vanderbilt faculty, staff and graduate and professional students.
No changes allowed to ePassword Nov. 1–5 during AccessVU release
Oct. 26, 2012—(iStockPhotography) Information Technology Services and the Vanderbilt Identity Services team will release AccessVU, an extensive upgrade to Vanderbilt’s Identity Management system, on Nov. 5. As a result, from 5 p.m. Nov. 1, until 6 a.m. Nov. 5, ePassword and all identity management services will be offline. Staff and faculty will not be able to make...
EDUCAUSE conference streamed live, Nov. 6-9
Oct. 11, 2012—The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference is the premier gathering for higher education IT professionals. It provides content and exploration of today’s toughest technology issues facing campuses around the world, and convenes some of the brightest minds in the community. When colleagues from around the world converge with some of the most innovative corporate solution providers, you...
Tech talk on Mathematica 8 is Sept. 13
Sep. 6, 2012—A representative from Wolfram Research, the maker of Mathematica, will give a free tech talk about Mathematica 8 on Thursday, Sept. 13. Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, engineering and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing. Troy Schaudt will speak from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Stevenson Center, Room 1206. He...
Tech talk on Mathematica 8 is Sept. 13
Sep. 5, 2012—A representative from Wolfram Research, the maker of Mathematica, will give a free tech talk about Mathematica 8 on Thursday, Sept. 13. Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, engineering and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing. Troy Schaudt will speak from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Stevenson Center, Room 1206. He...
Tech talk on Mathematica 8 scheduled for Sept. 13
Aug. 28, 2012—A representative from Wolfram Research, the maker of Mathematica, will give a free tech talk about Mathematica 8 on Thursday, Sept. 13. Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, engineering and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing. Troy Schaudt will speak from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Stevenson Center, Room 1206. ...
Migration of email mailboxes begins July 16
Jul. 10, 2012—Migration of mailboxes for the Vanderbilt community will begin July 16. Users who do not use mail archive are moving to Vanderbilt’s new enterprise email system, Vmail (Exchange 2010). Archive users will be migrated to a different Exchange 2007 mail server until the archive environment is upgraded to be compatible with Exchange 2010. Users will receive a...