The way you make an outbound call at VBCH is standardizing
Beginning September 1, 2022, the way workforce members make phone calls at our Vanderbilt Bedford County Hospital (VBCH) is changing to a standard 10-digits preceded by a “9”. This includes all calls, including internal calls, local calls and external calls to another area code.
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RJ Young to take over as enterprise managed print services vendor
VUMC has selected RJ Young as its new Managed Print Service vendor, beginning August 1, 2022.
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VUMC application migration, the next step in ExpeditionTech, now underway
ExpeditionTech has begun the multi-year migration of VUMC applications and their related components from directories shared with Vanderbilt University (VU) to the VUMC directory. This includes servers, databases, security groups, resource accounts and file shares, and impacts more than 700 applications.
July 1 deadline announced for replacing Windows 7 workstations
As previously announced, Microsoft is no longer supporting their outdated Windows 7 operating system. On July 1, 2022, all workstations still using Windows 7 will be blocked from the network.
These workstations have already been cut off from accessing the virtual private network (VPN) as they are no longer supported by our VPN solution.
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What you should know as Microsoft retires support for the Windows 7 operating system
Microsoft is no longer supporting their outdated Windows 7 operating system. To ensure the security of our workstations and in support of the broader ExpeditionTech Program, VUMC IT and Vanderbilt Enterprise Cybersecurity are migrating all workstations to the Windows 10 operating system. As a result, all workstations running Windows 7 are impacted.
Effective immediately, Windows 7 workstations can no longer connect to the VPN
ExpeditionTech PrinterLogic initiative brings simplified printing capabilities to workforce
To support the ExpeditionTech program and our enterprise migration to more modern and secure technology, the ExpeditionTech team will convert existing VUMC IT-managed printers to PrinterLogic, for both clinical and administrative systems in the coming weeks.
The rollout impacts all VUMC IT-managed printers, as well as both shared and stand-alone workstations with current mapping to a printer.
The move to PrinterLogic will: