The mailing list service was recently updated extensively, and the way users subscribe to lists and manage them has changed. On this page you can find frequently asked questions that have come up after the update, along with their answers. How do I log in to the service? How do I add multiple email addresses […]

The user accounts of the university and Oamk cluster in the Active Directory (AD) to the groups which are in accordance with the person’s cost pool. In addition to these built-in groups, other groups can be created and maintained in different systems to many kinds of needs; for team working, for granting user rights, for […]

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: Logic of version history Manually changing the settings Verifying version history Removal of additional versions Delete all old versions in OneDrive […]

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 […]

During 2026, a new, national data classification model will be introduced at the University of Oulu and Oulu University of Applied Sciences. Certain pilot groups are already running the data classification tool in the M365 environment that follows the new data classification model. The data classification tool is already in use for these groups: ICT […]

Location: University of Oulu Address: Paavo Havaksen tie 5 E, 90570 Oulu Telefon: 040 559 1211 Open:  Mon – Fri 8-18 Sat – Sun Closed Open from 8:00 to 16:00 in July   NOTE: This information has been received in the ICT Services on 9 December 2025. Exceptions to opening hours are not known to […]

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 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 […]

How do I know if my account is active? What is my username? My password isn’t working, how do I get a new one? My personal information has changed, what should I do? Why am I unable to connect to eduroam or owlan? Why are my courses not visible in Moodle? How do I sign […]

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 […]