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The university uses Office 365 e-mail. The university’s mail can be used with different e-mail programs, which often significantly improves e-mail use comfort and enhances usage. Outlook is the recommended program for Office 365 mail.

• You can read your e-mail using a browser at https://www.helsinki.fi/office365
• Helpdesk’s instructions
  General instructions on how to use the university mail are available on the site. The instructions mainly cover how to use Office 365 mail. The university’s mail can be used with different e-mail programs, which often significantly improves e-mail use

The use of some of the University’s online services is limited to the university network for licence-related reasons. These services include the databases and electronic journals offered by the library. To use these services on a computer outside the university network, you are required to establish a secure connection between your home computer and the university server.

The most common technology for establishing such a connection is VPN (Wikipedia). To use a VPN connection, you need a valid university username. Check the installation instructions for different operating systems.

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This page provides further details about information security collected from the Helpdesk site, Student’s digital skills and Flamma.

The purpose of this page is to describe remote access to IT services offered by the University of Helsinki and provide guidance in their use.

As mobile devices and smartphones have become more common, new possibilities and new challenges have arisen. One of the greatest challenges is information security, the importance of which is emphasised as the amount of data and ways of using the systems are expanding. Although the importance of technical information security must not be underestimated, a large part of information security consists of the user’s own actions. These instructions include the best practices concerning the security of smartphones. This list is not designed to be a comprehensive set of information security

This landing page contains links to all the University's MFA instructions.

Multifactor Authentication (MFA) improves information security by making scam attempts more difficult for cybercriminals. You can choose to ask for authentication requests every 90 days per device to avoid receiving the requests continuously. MFA is a feature that provides additional security when logging in to many of the University's services, and it uses a separate device to authenticate.

Sign in https://www.helsinki.fi/office365

Microsoft Office 365 is a toolkit of the university, creating mutual electronic office tools and a calendar for the use of everyone at the university. Office 365 has a number of services necessary in everyday work, such as e-mail, calendar, instant message and web meeting services as well as information distribution and social media tools.

Sign in to Office 365 service here: https://helsinki.fi/office365

Printing can usually be done through the Smartcard printing queue on the university workstations. You can print on any public printer on any campus. Printing on Smartcard devices is always subject to a charge. If you are a member of staff, your department will cover the costs. Unigrafia Oy provides the printing service to the university.

Sometimes you may need to use the university’s internal databases, directories or certain online services from outside the university (e.g., your home directory or SAP). In that case, you need to connect to the university network. For that, you need to establish a secure (encrypted) communication channel, a so-called VPN tunnel. The university offers several options to achieve this. With a VPN client, your home directory will appear as a network drive on your computer.

The University offers storage facilities, data processing environments, high-performance computing services and solution consultation for the special needs of research and cooperation. You will find links to detailed instructions and presentations on this page.

We also recommend that you take a look at the table, which gives you a quick overview of the services offered and their suitability for confidential material, for example.

• Read more about the University’s data support on the University’s public website
• Think Open Blog (BLOG TEXTS PARTLY IN FINNISH AND PARTLY IN ENGLISH!) 

The university enables the use of various network drives for individual or group work on both university computers and home computers. In addition to home and group directories, work files can be saved on your computer or external storage media. Different types of storage media have different features. Some are designed for personal use and some for sharing information with others.  This page contains links for more detailed instructions.

For more information on saving information, see Student’s digital skills.

In order to carry out their studies or work, students and staff at the University require a username and a password to use the University of Helsinki IT systems. The primary account for all students is the so-called AD account, with which you log in to the University computers and the most popular network services, such as e-mail and Flamma.

• Eduroam in the university's computers
• Installing a new printer
• Changing the default printer
• Mapping your home page directory to a network drive
• Managing files
• Updating Windows 10

The University of Helsinki has several wireless networks:

• HelsinkiUni is a new wireless network for centrally managed university staff Windows laptops. 
   
• Eduroam is international wireless network for staff, students and members of the eduroam network.
   
• HelsinkiUni Guest network is intended for users who do not have university credentials or access to the eduroam network.