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The main purpose of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is to prevent the abuses of the user accounts. In practice MFA means that you verify, in other words approve your sign-ins on the phone, which has been connected with MFA. Because your phone is needed for the verification, no external quarter is able to abuse your user […]

Using VPN client for remote connections of the university services requires you to perform the following prior actions: First, create an eduvpn profile file on https://account.oulu.fi/eduvpn. Read the instruction: Eduvpn profile creating (UO). Download the profile file to your computer, e.g. Download folder. If your own device does not have OpenVPN client, install it according […]

The use of Open VPN Connect client for remote connections of the university requires the creation of a personal eduvpn-profile file and importing it to VPN client in the computer. First create the profile file, download it to your computer and then import it to OpenVPN client. NOTE! Your Eduvpn profile is valid for two […]

The secured e-mail should be used whenever confidential or delicate information is sent by e-mail from University of Oulu to outside or from outside to the university. N.B. In the university’s internal e-mail traffic in O365 service an additional protection is not needed. The contents of this instruction: Secured mail inside the university Sending a […]

The contents of this instruction: Make a service request e.g. ticket to Campus ICT support service Visit Campus ICT service point in Linnanmaa Does your probem apply to the user account or password?   Make a service request e.g. ticket to Campus ICT support service Make a ticket by email: as a university student, send […]

The contents of this instruction: Rules of IT service use E-mail rules Use of wlan in brief Rules of IT service use In brief These binding rules concern all users. Including you. These rules apply to the use of all of the university’s IT services, hardware, software and networks. The university authorises users to access […]

Temporary UFO user account A person who has no contract in the university but has a justified reason to use IT services for the staff, a temporary UFO user account must be applied by her/his unit. This person could be a scholarship researcher, a researcher with grant funding or Academy funding, a part-time teacher, a […]

The password of the university’s student and staff user accout as well as of a temporary UFO user account also must be changed at least once a year. You get the reminder to your e-mail if you have not changed your password during the year. Change the password in the university’s service: https://account.oulu.fi/passwd. Good password: […]

User account A personal username is your key to the systems and services of the university during your employment. By receiving the personal account, you also approve Rules of IT Services Use. The contents of this instruction: Account and password New employee Multi-factor authentication MFA Forms of the staff user account Validity of the staff account […]