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Due to the replacement of a faulty memory card on a backup server, all phones on the MCV campus will be rebooted twice between 12 midnight and 3 a.m. on Tuesday, July 31, 2007. No calls can be placed nor can the system take incoming calls. Calls already in conversation will not be affected during these system reboots. Estimated 5 minutes per outage. Please call 827-8353 should you have a problem during this maintenance.
The faculty/staff e-mail servers Aspen, Aspen2, Aspen3, Aspen4, Oak, Oak2, Oak3, Oak4 will be down for configuration changes between 8:00 am - 8:30 am Saturday July 28, 2007. IMAP connections will be redirected to a secure socket layer connection by default.
There will be a brief period where VCU online resources are unavailable Friday night due to network maintenance. This period is expected only to last 15 minutes sometime between 7 and 9 p.m. Please contact the Technology Services Help Desk should you have any questions or concerns at 827-2227 or help@vcu.edu
Some posts to mailing lists on lists.vcu.edu have not been going through. We expect this to be resolved sometime tomorrow.
As part of the ePhones upgrade in Sanger Hall, equipment must be replaced to ensure that these new telephones will work correctly on the VCU network. This has been scheduled for Saturday, July 28, 2007 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. During this time no network access will be available to anyone working in Sanger Hall. This includes wireless and public access computer labs. Please share this information with anyone you feel will be affected by this network service interruption. Please contact the Technology Services Help Desk should you have any questions or concerns at 827-2227 or help@vcu.edu.
A Blackboard downtime will be observed from 4PM to Midnight, July 27, 2007.
Blackboard Maintenance is the second and fourth Friday of the month.
E-Mail Services is working to bring Cedar back on-line. Outbound mail via IMAP clients is directly affected. IMAP clients can sign into VCU Mail Anywhere to send mail until the server is brought back on-line. For assistance accessing VCU Mail Anywhere, please call the Helpdesk at 828-2227.
Scheduled maintenance will be performed on the E-mail system Saturday, July 21, between 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. During this maintenance window, access to e-mail may be unavailable on your primary server. Access to your e-mail via your alternate server should be available automatically when accessing through VCU Mail Anywhere, or via your alternate server using an IMAP connection or the Notes client.
Blackboard maintenance is complete - 12:45 AM on Saturday, July 14th.
Thank you.
The myVCU portal will be down for maintenance from 5:00pm to 5:30pm on Friday July 13th.
Scheduled maintenance will be performed on the following student email servers: VRAM1-6 and VRAM7-12 on Saturday, July 14, between 8:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. During this maintenance window, access to e-mail may be unavailable on your primary server. Access to your e-mail via your alternate server should be available automatically when accessing through VCU Mail Anywhere, or via your alternate server using an IMAP connection or the Notes client. This maintenance only affects student e-mail service.
Network connectivity has been restored to Theater Row. New point-to-point laser devices have been installed. Please contact the Help Desk at 828-2227 should you have any questions.
This course, hosted at the University of Virginia, will introduce participants to the basics of high-performance parallel computing and the national cyber-infrastructure. The course is targeted at graduate students, staff, and faculty with a computational science and problems that demand high performance. The program takes place August 7-10 & August 13-16, 2007. The bootcamp is free to attendees. For more information click here.
Technology Services begins installation of the university's new phone system in the Ambulatory Care Center, basement through third floor, this week. Occupants of these buildings click here for information regarding training sessions or to download training materials. If any problems should occur after installation, dial *90 or 827-8353 for assistance.
A Blackboard downtime will be observed from 4PM to Midnight, July 13, 2007.
Blackboard Maintenance is the second and fourth Friday of the month.
Scheduled maintenance will be performed on the E-mail system Saturday, July 7, between 8:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. During this maintenance window, access to e-mail may be unavailable on your primary server. Access to your e-mail via your alternate server should be available automatically when accessing through VCU Mail Anywhere, or via your alternate server using an IMAP connection or the Notes client.
The Notes servers Aspen2/Oak2 are now available for login. The disk issue has been corrected. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Notes (dnotes@vcu.edu).