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Policy Information Background Third party applications are any applications that are not developed by the Vanderbilt community. They would include off the shelf solutions, custom solutions, and software as a service solutions. These various different types of third party solutions can either be hosted locally on the Vanderbilt network or… Read More

Policy Information Background Resource accounts are created when usage of individual VUNETID is not feasible. Examples of resource accounts would include accounts created to schedule resources in Exchange, service accounts to access various resources,and Exchange shared mailboxes. Resource accounts are not associated with an individual and they are created… Read More

Policy Information Background These accounts (often called three letter accounts) are used to grant an individual access to specialized environments. It is usually used to give owner admin or super user rights to a system, programming environment, tools, etc. Policy The following policies must be applied to all administrative… Read More

Policy Information Separation When a staff member leaves Vanderbilt, the VUnet account is placed in “separated” status. Accounts with this status no longer have access to authentication services. Accounts in Separated status cannot receive email. However, the account still exists in the system, and can be re-activated. Separation rules depend… Read More

Email Expiration Information The following chart illustrates the general email account expiration policy:     VMail​ ​VUGmail Faculty​ ​+4 months from last day of employment ​N/A ​Staff ​Expires the last day of employment ​N/A Emeritus​ ​Never ​N/A ​Undergraduate Student ​+4 months from last day as an enrolled student ​Never Former ​Undergraduate… Read More

Policy Information This policy supplements the DNS policy and helps ensure:We are able to provide the university with an efficient domain registration, renewal and transfer process.Vanderbilt Information Technology is able to track all domains used by the university.A domain is not tied to an individual person’s credit card or login and… Read More