The Vmail system is experiencing intermittent connectionissues using Outlook Web Access (OWA) via http://owa.vanderbilt.edu and http://email.vanderbilt.edu.Connections through http://email.mc.vanderbilt.edu arenot affected.  ITS is working diligently to resolve this issue.

ITS will be performing maintenance on the Epassword Identity Manager (IDM) service on Sunday, November 11, between the hours of 12:00 AM and 3:00 AM. During this time, the ability to change or create new  Epasswords will be briefly unavailable (~3 minutes).

Beginning Friday, October 30 at 9:00 PM until Saturday, October 31 at 2:00 AM, ITS will be replacing the existing "IDM" firewalls with a more robust upgraded new pair of firewalls. This is a replacement of equipment and involves no changes to the network (re: IP addressing, network configurations, etc). As such, no changes are needed to any services behind the firewalls, or to any systems that access services behind the firewalls.

ITS will be performing maintenance on the Exchange 2007 environment on Thursday, 29, between the hours of 10:00 PM and 10:30 PM. During this time, name resolution will be impacted for ~5 minutes and users will be unable to search the Global Address List (GAL).

ITS will be performing maintenance on the Virtual Center Management Service (VCMS) environment on Tuesday, October 27, between the hours of 9:00 PM and 10:30 PM. During this time, VCMS access will be unavailable.

ITS will be applying Microsoft security patches to the Unified Communications and Exchange servers beginning 10:00 PM Friday, October 23 and ending 2:00 AM Saturday, October 24. During this time there will be brief, rolling outages as these servers are rebooted.

ITS will be performing maintenance on the Java Application Hosting Service tonight, Monday, October 19, between the hours of 10:00 PM and 10:30 PM. During this time, the following services will be briefly unavailable.

E-Password Pages - IDM

ITS will be installing Microsoft security patches to Windows servers on Sunday, October 18, between the hours of 12:00 AM and 3:00 AM. During this time, the following systems will experience a rolling outage while a reboot is performed.

* Apphost1a, Apphost2

VUMC email service has been restored.

We are currently experiencing a problem with VUMC email and we're investigating.