Washington University Information Technology will replace the supporting UPS for the 2nd floor Brown Hall network telecom room on March 2nd, between 4:45 and 5:15am. While we do not anticipate an interruption in service, there is a slight possibility that the Network, Wireless, and Phones could be unavailable for approximately 10 minutes during the maintenance […]
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March 2: Jolley Hall Network Device Maintenance
Washington University Information Technology will replace the supporting UPS for the 5th floor Jolley Hall network telecom room on March 2nd, between 5:30 and 6:00 am. While we do not anticipate an interruption in service, there is a slight possibility that the Network, Wireless, and Phones could be unavailable for approximately 10 minutes during the […]
February 29 – West Campus Data Center Fire Alarm Testing
In coordination with WUSTL Facilities, we will be implementing new fire alarm matrix changes to properly align the fire alarm with the data center guidelines to prevent future issues triggered by the fire alarm system. Data center tenants and service owners are not anticipated to see any impact from this change, however, there is a […]
Shared IT Services Closes in on 20,000 Workstations Migrated
The Shared IT Services (SITS) program continues to move forward. Unit migrations to SITS remains a top priority of the Office of the Chief Information Officer and Vice Chancellor of IT at Washington University in St. Louis. In their latest milestone, the SITS project recently surpassed 19,500 workstations migrated to the new modern technology environment. Where […]
Reflection on My Journey at Washington University
Submitted by Denise Hirschbeck Reflection on My Journey at Washington University – June 9, 1971 through January 2, 2020 I want to thank all of you for coming together in to help me celebrate my retirement. A special thanks to Amy Walter, Maria Moyer, Kara Paul and Monique Tumbleson for pulling together a spectacular event! […]
Feb. 1: West Campus Data Center Maintenance
Washington University Information Technology will be replacing the West Campus Data Center UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) batteries on February 1. This process is scheduled to take approximately 8-12 hours with work starting at 7:00 a.m. No outage is expected as the data center will run on the building generator for the duration of the maintenance. […]
January 16: Demote Domain Controllers and Retire Domain
On January 16, the following Active Directory Domain will be decommissioned. Active Directory Domain being decommissioned Career Center – wucc.ais.wustl.ed Domain Controllers being decommissioned WUCCDC1.wucc.ais.wustl.edu 128.252.143.134 WUCCDC2.wucc.ais.wustl.edu 10.24.69.6 All active directory objects have moved to to the accounts.ad.wustl.edu domain. There is no remaining Active Directory traffic going to WUCC. Formal demotion of the WUCC domain […]
Shared IT Services Remains Focused on Finishing Project in 2020
The Shared IT Services (SITS) program continues to move forward. Unit migrations to SITS remains a top priority of the Office of the Chief Information Officer and Vice Chancellor of IT at Washington University in St. Louis. SITS is working diligently on workstation migrations through a number of units on different campuses across the university. […]
Jan. 21: Clinical Desktop 2 Migration
On January 21, Clinical Desktop 2 will be enabled/migrated to the ECV Citrix environment for both BJC and WashU. Clinical Desktop 2 will remain available in the legacy Citrix environment (connect.bjc.org) until February 3, at which time it will be disabled. Communication A pop-up message has been added to the legacy Citrix environment advising users […]