You are able to use your school mail account (the one that lies in the cloud services) also on your local computer, using e.g. Thunderbird. Mozilla Thunderbird is an easy to use e-mail application and it is also free of charge. You may download it from http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/. Taking Thunderbird into use When you launch Thunderbird […]

Transferring your old email to the new system is easiest by adding the information of your old account to the new one. After logging in using address https://portal.microsoftonline.com, choose Outlook options: Then choose Connected accounts: Now choose New from the Connected accounts section: Put your account information using address uname@oppilas.oamk.fi, where uname is your user […]

Protecting privacy in the Internet is everybody’s responsibility. You should never put personal details of other people to the web and it is also a good idea to thoroughly consider what information you put there about yourself as well. Things you put to Internet might be difficult or even impossible to remove once posted. E.g. […]

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It’s not recommended that you use a USB memory stick for confidential data. Also, you ought to keep your entertainment and study related USB drives separate. Don’t use your study related flash drives in Internet cafes and alike. You can make your USB memory stick (= Flash/USB/thumb drive), more secure by using encryption: There are […]

You can change your password in either of these ways: Method 1: Using a Windows computer that is in OUAS network (at school premises) Log in. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del. Choose “Change a password…” Enter your current password and your new password to the related fields. Press enter. Method 2: Using a web page Go to https://password.oamk.fi […]

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Every student at the Oulu University of Applied Sciences has an Oamk account; a user name and related password. You need your account e.g. when you want to read your email, log in to the Oamk data systems e.g. Students intranet Oiva and map your home directory (to a Windows computer at the school network) Students […]