Author Archives: Pirjo
Operating system update on Intune
Computers in centralized cloud management of ICT Services are so-called Intune machines. The machines are either Windows or macOS machines, or phones. This instruction deals only with computer operating system updates. The contents of this instruction: Windows MacOS Windows Before ICT Services install an operating system update on your computer, it appears in Windows updates. […]
How to check OneDrive’s version history
Version history is a useful feature, but especially in large and frequently edited files it can consume considerable disk space. With these instructions, you can easily check and manage versions. The contents of this instruction: Verifying version history Removal of additional versions Delete all old versions in OneDrive Delete all old versions in Teams Verifying version […]
Use of IT Device Vendor
NOTE: Both the laptop vendors for students and IT device vendors for the staff have been renewed as one service. All the lending facilities are available to students and staff of UO and Oamk. The old vendors have been decommissioned. You can make a reservation for an IT device using the vendor’s console, or in […]
Netox Campus
Location: University of Oulu Address: Paavo Havaksen tie 5 E, 90570 Oulu Telefon: 040 559 1211 Open: Mon – Fri 8-18 (closed 31 Dec, 2025) Sat – Sun Closed NOTE: This information has been received in the ICT Services on 9 December 2025. Exceptions to opening hours are not known to us.
Version control systems at the University of Oulu
The University of Oulu offers a version management service at version.oulu.fi, which can be used by both students and staff of the University of Oulu and Oulu University of Applied Sciences. The service is based on the Gitlab Community Edition and runs as a Git version management system. The use of the service is free […]
Personal WWW home pages (UO students and staff & Oamk staff)
Personal home pages could be created in any web server to which one has a user account. In practice the University of Oulu’s students have user accounts on the Tuomi server and the University and Oamk staff have user accounts on the Koivu server. Both of the servers are Apache web servers and the users […]
The University of Oulu’s Carpo2 computing cluster has been replaced with Lehmus
See Lehmus: High Performance Computing at the University of Oulu
Password policy
The contents of this instruction: Password requirements AD Password Locking Policies for Entra ID logins Password Locking Policies for AD/LDAP logins Password requirements AD The password must be at least 12 characters long. It must not contain any part of the username or the user’s name. It must include characters from at least three of […]