April 2008 Archives

Scheduled Maintenance - Sametime Server Spruce »

Scheduled maintenance will be performed on the Sametime instant messaging server - Spruce - on Saturday, May 3, 2008, from 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. During this time instant messaging will be unavailable....

Special Maintenance Saturday, April 26 - Oak E-Mail Servers »

E-mail Services will be performing special maintenance to Faculty Staff e-mail servers Oak, Oak2, Oak3, and Oak4 between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. Saturday, April 26, 2008. During this maintenance window, users may access their mail via VCU Mail Anywhere automatically, via their alternate Aspen server via IMAP clients, or...

UPDATED - Special E-mail Server Maintenance - VRAM1C-6C & VRAM7-12 ONLY April 26, 2008 5:06 PM »

Maintenance has been completed on VRAM1C-6C and VRAM7-12 and these servers are now available to users....

ePhones e911 Upgrade »

The ePhones e911 system is being upgraded beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday, April 25. e911 calls will continue to work during the upgrade, however, ePhones IP stations should not be moved between 6 p.m. on Friday and 7 a.m. on Monday, April 28, as the e911 database will reference...

LANDesk Server Maintenance - UPDATE »

04/24/2008 - Server maintenance has been completed UCC will be performing some critical maintenance on the LANDesk VCUnet core server on Thursday, April 24th starting at 6:30 AM. All LANDesk services should be restored on this server by 7:30 AM....

Student E-Mail Server VRAM10C Unavailable »

E-mail Services is working to bring VRAM10C back on-line. Students should connect to their alternate server, VRAMIMAP10.VCU.EDU via imap or automatically via the web....

myVCU hardware failure »

The myVCU portal has experienced a failure of the main database server and most features of the portal are currently unavailable. A temporary portal is in place at https://my.vcu.edu with links to the major applications. You will need to sign into each application separately, using your eId and password. Due...

IRS Phishing Scam Email »

Some members of the VCU community may have received an email with the subject line of "Tax Refund". This is not a legitimate email from the IRS. Form the IRS website: "The IRS does not initiate taxpayer communications through e-mail. In addition, the IRS does not request detailed personal information...

Student E-mail Servers VRAM1 - 6 are now Available: 4/19/2008 7:20 PM »

Special maintenance to upgrade VRAM 1-6 to Solaris 10 in preparation for the upgrade to Domino 8 has been completed. These servers are now available for access....

Student E-mail Server VRAM5 Available »

Vram5 is now available. Thank you for your patience....

April LANDesk Server Maintenance »

The schedule for this month's server maintenance is April 10 and April 15. All services should be restored by 7am....

ImageNow Maintenance - Sunday, 4/13/08, 7:30a - 8:00a »

For your planning purposes, we would like to alert you that on Sunday, April 13, 2008, from 7:30 a.m. to approximately 8:00 a.m., the UCC will be performing maintenance on the ImageNow servers. ImageNow will not be available during this scheduled maintenance window....

LANDesk System Maintenance on 4/8/2008 - UPDATE »

04/08/2008 5:10pm - System maintenance is complete. We will be performing LANDesk System Maintenance Tuesday, April 8, 2008 from 4pm until 5pm. We will be applying a fix to the servers to improve system performance. Inventory and Security scans and Software deployments will be interrupted during this time....

Extended Scheduled Maintenance - E-mail Servers »

Scheduled maintenance will be performed on the E-mail system Saturday, April 5, between 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. This is an extended maintenance period as part of the preparation to upgrade to Domino 8. During this maintenance window, access to e-mail may be unavailable on your primary server. Access to...

Student E-Mail Server VRAM5 Now Available »

Student e-mail server VRAM5 is now available. All pending mail has been delivered....

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