On Thursday, June 12, 2013, Vanderbilt Information Technology Services (ITS) will convert the Microsoft Live@edu service to Office 365.

How does this affect you?

Beginning immediately, some Apple Mac users will encounter difficulty using the VUMC SSL VPN 
(Juniper Network Connect). Those users should switch to using the Juniper Junos Pulse SSL VPN.

Why:

ITS provisioned Lync standard accounts for all current Vanderbilt faculty, staff and graduate and professional students. To use Lync for instant messaging, presence and basic conferencing,simply install the client and login.

From this point forward, anyone joining Vanderbilt in the above classifications will have an account provisioned as part of the VUnet ID activation process in the AccessVU system.

Lync clients are available for download at http://its.vanderbilt.edu/uc/lync, and in the Software store.

Information Technology Services (ITS) is pleased to announce that on Monday, November 5, 2012, Vanderbilt Identity Services team will release AccessVU. AccessVU is an extensive upgrade to the Identity Management system. The upgrade will require an outage to the identity management tools. Beginning at 5:00 PM on Thursday, November 1, 2012, until Monday, November 5, 2012, at 6:00 AM all identity management services will be offline. During this time any emergency changes (ePassword change, account creation, reauth, etc…) must be performed by the Identity Management team.

The Vanderbilt community qualifies for a $50 savings on HP Envy 6t Ultrabook systems through http://www.hpdirect.com/academy/vanderbilt. The offer is good through December 31, 2012 or while supplies last. Use coupon code NBEV83296 at checkout.

Dell is doubling Vanderbilt's employee and student discount from 2% to 4% on all systems pre-installed with Windows 7. The offer is valid from 10/12/2012 to 10/29/20112. Vanderbilt students and employees who participate receive the regular Dell promotion, plus an additional 4% off.

Order through Vanderbilt's Dell portal (www.dell.com/dellu/vanderbiltu) to ensure you get the best pricing.

On November 5, 2012, Vanderbilt Identity Services will release AccessVU, the upgrade to the Identity Management system.  The date was postponed from its originally intended October release.  This upgrade will feature multiple enhancements to VSA (VUnet Services Administrator) roles, new functionality and new onboarding workflows.  This requires all VSAs be trained on the new Identity Management tools.  If you are a VSA and need to maintain your VSA status, fill out and bring the following signed form with you to training:  Submitted by marshaac on Thu, 10/11/2012 - 12:18pm 

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