Web Services

Note 7/17/2025: The RamCam upgrade has been postponed to next week, hopefully. After years of dedicated service, our two remaining RamCams are finally getting a prodigious upgrade. We’re talking 4K resolution, 60 frames per second, a 1/2.5″ CMOS sensor, Lightfinder, Wide Dynamic Ranges and all sorts of things we don’t fully understand! These new cameras […]

First off, a huge thank you to our awesome and patient community. Thanks to all of you, we’ve taken care of the last few issues and are now confident we can finally shut down the wiki.vcu.edu server. While the server itself will go offline, we’re implementing some clever redirects for the wiki.vcu.edu domain. Our goal […]

We’re almost an entire week in the cloud! Thanks to everybody who assisted us in all the testing and advice. The next step is two-fold– we’ll convert the wiki.vcu.edu space to a read-only environment to encourage everybody to pay more attention to their new Cloud Space… and then we’ll sunset the service entirely by issuing […]

In October 2023, we revealed the plan to move our wiki.vcu.edu “Confluence” app into Atlassian’s cloud offerings. It has taken us a bit of time to arrange all of the ducks, but we’re approaching the time to actually move. As of this post, we will not be creating any more spaces on wiki.vcu.edu, and existing […]

In yet another devastating blow to iFrames everywhere, effective March 30, Duo Security will no longer support the much beloved “traditional” Duo Prompt. To replace the traditional prompt, they have conveniently released a VCU pre-approved product called the “UNiversal Prompt”. This was announced a while back, and the Information Security team did a nice job […]

Tap, tap– tap, tap. Does this thing still work? Atlassian Confluence 7.4.17, affectionately known as wiki.vcu.edu is up for a change. We recognize that the Wiki is already a critical application all around VCU’s departments. Over the last few years, we’ve seen little functionalities drop as we switch Directory Services, or as a handful of […]

At the start of the 2017 spring semester, VCU Technology Services will be switching to a new Central Authentication Service (CAS) website design. The internet and VCU’s web experience goals have changed since the current design was implemented in 2011. Since then, we’ve furthered our commitment to performance, accessibility, and utility. This transition has led […]

On October 12th, 2016 version 8 of the TerminalFour web content management system was released to the university. Technology Services is currently in negotiations on how to properly migrate sites from v7 into v8. At the moment the plan is to put new sites (that are not part of a v7 template) into v8, everything […]

This is a notice that on Thursday, October 20th Web Services will be migrating all websites hosted on Pubapps to new Pubapps hardware (Change Management #9001131). This change will go through approval by the Change Advisory Board (CAB) October 13th. This disruptive change will take place between 2 – 4 a.m. and will result in […]

Web Services is in the midst of a long process of upgrading the servers that make up the Jupiter Web System. One part of the upgrade process is eliminating old insecure scripts. These scripts are used to subscribe people to a Listserv email list. However, in 1999, Listserv integrated subscription services into its web interface […]