NATIONAL DOWN

There is a complete building power shutdown scheduled to begin at 4:30p (CST) on Friday evening, November 16^th for the Kansas City VFW building. The purpose of this email is to share with you the impact this shutdown will have on the various information and technology systems and when you can anticipate them being unavailable. Please keep in mind that while the Washington DC office will not be directly affected by the power down itself, many of the services listed below are provided to the DC office from the KC office and therefore may not be available. All times listed are Central Standard Time. (CST)

 

The following is a timeline of when services will be unavailable Friday November 16^th :

 Computer, Network, Blackberry and iPhones – these systems will become unavailable at 4:30pm so the IT group can perform data backups of our critical business systems prior to the shutdown. (Please note that the email function for the Blackberrys and iPhones will not function during this time but the telephone capability will remain in service) Please ensure that all of your desktop computers have been turned off and powered down prior to leaving work.

Website, OMS – these systems will become unavailable at 4:30p. A backup of website data will be completed prior to it shutting down to capture all of the Online Membership transactions that were submitted during the day. All Department Headquarters should notify their membership that the website will be unavailable during this time frame and will be unable to submit membership information until after the systems are restored.

Local Kansas City VFW Building Telephone (PBX) system – this system will remain operational until 5:30p. We will then do a backup of the telephone software and shut it down prior to the main building power down.

The electrical power is scheduled to be restored to the building by Saturday morning. IT staff will be here ready to restore these critical information and technology services once all the electrical work has been completed. If all goes well, we anticipate having all systems operational by midday on Saturday.