Author Archives: Pirjo
M365 language settings
Microsoft 365 Education service’s language settings a) When using M365 service with a web browser, the online applications are affected by the following language settings: Your M365 profile’s language setting Region settings in M365 and/or OneDrive (in some cases/apps) Language settings for the browser you use (affects the front page view of the M365 portal). […]
Mobile Security Guidelines for staff members and students
Mobile devices (smart phones and tablets) can easily get lost or stolen. Therefore, they entail the risk of unauthorised access to the user’s or university’s data. Unauthorised users can also pose as the device owner and send e-mail in his/her name. Hence, it is important to know the information security risks and act accordingly. Contents […]
Information Security Guide for staff
This Information Security Guide is primarily intended to serve as a general guide for university staff members, regardless of their place of work. It has been produced as a collaboration between universities and has been aimed at making it suitable for all universities. This Information Security Guide is the product of collaboration by the University […]
STUDENT’S INFORMATION SECURITY GUIDE
This Information Security Guide is primarily intended to serve as a general guide for university students, regardless of their place of study. The Information Security Guide is the product of collaboration by the University of Helsinki, University of Eastern Finland, University of Jyväskylä, University of Oulu, Hanken School of Economics and Åbo Akademi University, and […]
VPN Portal (UO)
VPN Portal vpn.oulu.fi: If you do not have a VPN client on your device, you will get a secure connection to the university network from outside it through VPN Portal. The VPN connection is easily obtained by the web browser, but there are very limited functionality in comparison with the use of the client. At […]
Use of IT device vendor
IT device vendor is a self-service machine from which, as a university or Oamk staff member, you can borrow IT devices for up to six (6) hours. You can borrow devices three (3) times a day. IT device vendors are in common use, meaning both university and Oamk staff and UFOs can borrow from any […]
Static websites for projects on version.oulu.fi server (UO)
Version.oulu.fi is a Gitlab server and it supports static websites that can be published using Gitlab Pages feature. Every Gitlab project on version.oulu.fi can contain one website that will be published in following domain: https://username.version-pages.oulu.fi/repository. You can find guides how to enable it from Gitlabs official documentation: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/pages/
Personal WWW home pages (UO)
Personal home pages could be created in any web server to which one has a user account. In practice students have user accounts of Tuomi server and the staff have user accounts of Koivu server. Both of the servers are Apache web servers and the users have a home directory (5 GB) there. You can […]
File encryption
If you are saving confidential or secret information, you can use the encryption tool of the desktop application or encrypt several files at the same time with a compression software. When using some of the encryption methods, you define yourself the password with which you can later open the files. Remember that the password cannot be […]
Webropol Survey & Reporting (UO)
Webropol Survey & Reporting is a web based tool to create queries and collect data. You can analyze the results, print various reports, and also transfer data to other programs for further processing. Link to the service: Webropol Survey & Reporting The service operates through the network International; the inquiries can be created in 29 […]