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 […]

To be able to use the Oamk online services, such as e-mail, you need a personal Oamk user account (user name and related password). The user name is a public identifier, which is shown at the email address before the @-character. The email addresses of the Oamk students look like this: uname@students.oamk.fi. How the user […]

Open your email. (You can set your signature either in the Outlook desktop version or the browser version. These instructions are for the browser version.) Open Settings (the cogwheel icon) from the top row options. Choose View all Outlook Settings (it’s the last item in the view). Choose Email, Compose and reply and type your signature […]

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(English translation by Joni Liikala)  Encrypting means that your email and it’s attachments are transformed from a natural language to an encrypted form, that only the recipient can open with a one-time passcode. Sending an encrypted message Receiving an encrypted message Sending an encrypted message You can encrypt your email message in Outlook by adding […]

If you don’t deal with confidential personal information in your email, you can forward your emails to your personal email. Emails sent (or forwarded) to external addresses, that haven’t been encrypted, move unencrypted in the external network. In OUAS’s internal messaging emails are sent only inside our own network. Confidential emails that are classified as […]

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In past years, the various malware and viruses have not been very big disturbance to contaminated IT devices. These malicious programs have mainly showed pop-up messages/advertises in the web browser, or have changed the search engine of the browser to another. Disadvantage has been pretty trivial. Nowadays it is very common that malware infected machine […]

Malicious programs are a constant nuisance in Oamk. Infected devices are difficult to detect and correct. ICT Services is constantly working to find and correct infected machines. Very often, it is found that the device has been contaminated as a result of user operations. Different firewalls, virus scanners, or any other technical things will not […]