VCU Networks Services has scheduled hardware upgrades for the wireless network beginning this Sunday, September 10th. Below is a list of buildings that will be upgraded including the dates and times they are scheduled for this work. During the upgrade, customers in these locations may experience a brief service disruption for VCU wireless networks. During this work, affected wireless access points that are visible to the customer will be blinking blue while the access point is downloading new code and then will reboot to apply the new code. Any one access point should only be unavailable for about 5 minutes. Once the process is completed the access point's light will no longer blink. Expect this brief outage sometime during the maintenance windows listed below:

Sunday, Sept 10th, 2am - 4 am

Monroe Park Campus - Honors Building, Cary and Belvidere, Williams House and Franklin Terrace buildings.

MCV Campus - Hunton Hall

Monday, Sept 25th, 2am - 4 am (adding additional bandwidth and updates to the new system)

Monroe Park Campus - Honors Building, Cary and Belvidere, Williams House and Franklin Terrace buildings.

MCV Campus - Hunton Hall

Sunday, October 1st, 2am - 8 am

Monroe Park Campus - All remaining buildings.

MCV Campus - McGuire, Woods, Cabaniss and VMI buildings

Sunday, Oct 15th, 2am - 8am

MCV Campus - All remaining buildings. (excluding UCC)

If you have any questions, please contact the IT Support Center at 828-2227 or itsc@vcu.edu.

Scammers are targeting VCU students with job offer scams. It is highly unlikely for anyone to offer you a job in email without a proper interview. If you receive a suspicious message, contact the VCU IT Support Center at itsc@vcu.edu or 828-2227 for assistance and verification.

VCU is continuing its effort to protect our community from cyber threats that may jeopardize the safety and security of our information. VCU 2Factor authentication will be extended to major services such as email and VCU Portal starting August 1, 2017 and Blackboard on August 15th, 2017. This upcoming change will provide faculty and staff members with additional protection for their VCU accounts and will provide the students with the option to enroll in additional security for their accounts. For more information, please visit http://go.vcu.edu/2factor. If you have any questions, please contact the IT Support Center at 828-2227 or itsc@vcu.edu.