Top Hat
VCU Technology Services will be performing routine maintenance beginning on 11/23/2024 starting at 12:00 AM EST.
You may not be able to access Banner Production Admin Pages, eServices, and Faculty Grade Entry for a short period of time, but we’ll have things back up and running as soon as possible to minimize disruptions.
Please contact the IT Support Center with any questions or concerns at 804-828-2227 or itsc@vcu.edu.
Scheduled maintenance for Banner Production is complete.
Please contact the IT Support Center with any questions or concerns at 804-828-2227 or itsc@vcu.edu.
There are power outages around Monroe Park campus that have created network (internet) outages for the following buildings:
Academic Learning Commons
Cabell Library
Gitner House
Glading
West Carry parking deck
Power continues to create network (internet) issues. James W Black Music Center and Moseley House have also been impacted.
Dominion Power has been dispatched and there is no current ETA on the power restoration.
Power has been restored and all buildings are back up and operational.
We are currently experiencing a campus-wide internet outage. Our team has identified a resolution and is working on implementing it onsite. We will provide further updates as they become available.
The campus-wide outage is continuing. We are still working on implementing a solution. Some web pages and applications may be intermittently accessible to those off-campus.
Services are coming back online and our technicians are working to confirm the restoration of all services.
VCU's network and services have been restored.
Top Hat is currently experiencing a site-wide issue with single sign-on. Currently, VCU users are unable to sign-in using their VCU accounts through our CAS single sign-on portal. This issue was first reported to us around 9:45am this morning (10/18/2024). This issue impacts most schools using single sign-on, not just VCU. We've already notified Top Hat support of the issue and their engineering team is actively working to restore service as quickly as possible. As we receive updates from Top Hat support we will provide them via our Classroom Technology blog at https://blogs.vcu.edu/classroomtechnology.
If you have questions or concerns about Top Hat, please reach out to the IT Support Center at (804) 828-2227 or by emailing tophat@vcu.edu.
Top Hat's engineering and support teams have identified the issue with Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication and have reached out to VCU Technology Services to update an expired certificate. Once this certificate issue has resolved and we are able to confirm a complete restoration of SSO authentication via VCU's CAS portal another update will be shared.
The VCU Shibboleth team has implemented the new certificate for Top Hat Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication and this has been tested with the VCU CAS portal. Authentication services have been restored.
We are investigating an issue with SAS servers which are impacting the VCU Reporting Center and SAS Enterprise Guide. We’re working to fix the problem as quickly as we can.
Please contact the IT Support Center with any questions or concerns at 804-828-2227 or itsc@vcu.edu.
We're back! Access to the VCU Reporting Center has now been restored.
Thank you for your patience.
We are continuing to experience widespread internet connectivity issues impacting systems on both campuses. We are currently in escalated communication with our external vendor to determine the root cause and implement a fix.
Services are starting to come back online and work continues to restore all services.
The ISP for the Universities backup internet connected has experienced a service outage due to a commercial power outage. Current estimates of power restoration are for July 21st. The Universities primary internet connection is up and operational. There has been no disruption to the Universities internet services.
ImageNow is currently unavailable. Staff is researching the cause and troubleshooting and trying to resolve.
Please contact the IT Support Center with any questions or concerns at 804-828-2227 or itsc@vcu.edu.
ImageNow is up and operational. Issues has been resolved.
On Thursday April 11th starting at 5pm, Fiber maintenance will occur to prepare for the move of our MARIA 100Gbs link from Pocahontas to the new data center at TOC. There are redundant paths to the internet, Internet 2, and other off campus resources, however a momentary delay while circuits switch to the redundant path is possible.
The fiber maintenance was successfully completed.
Starting at 4pm on Tuesday March 12, our fiber contractor will be pulling a new 288 fiber cable to support the new TOC data center. There should not be any impact to other fibers in the area.