ITC Computing Accounts

New Accounts/Automatically-Granted Accounts

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Accounts for New Faculty, Staff, and Students

What Accounts Am I Granted Automatically?

What About My UVa Email Account?

Computing Accounts for ITC-Supported Services

Most Commonly-Used ITC Computing Accounts
Computing Account/What It’s For For Whom? How to Get It

NetBadge

Verifies your identity as a valid user of the UVa website or online resource you are trying to access

faculty, staff, students

n/a - NetBadge is not a UVa computing account in itself; instead, it uses your ID and password from your other accounts (or your personal digital certificate).

UVa Email Accounts

Sending and receiving UVa electronic mail (and accessing UVa’s centralized calendar through UVa Exchange Service, for faculty and staff)

faculty, staff, students

request a UVa email account

Home Directory Service

Online file storage for backup copies of your important academic files, and access to personal webpage publishing

faculty, staff, students

automatically-granted through your Eservices account

UVaCollab

Course management, online collaborations, and personal file storage through My Workspace

faculty, staff, students

n/a - simply log into UVaCollab through NetBadge

SharePoint

The Microsoft portal for document management and collaboration

faculty, staff, students

automatically-granted through your Eservices account

Eservices

Network printing, UVa Exchange Service, computing lab and library workstation access, Premium Server clients, administrative operations, SharePoint

faculty, staff, students

automatically-granted

blue.unix

For logging into UNIX clusters, research computing clusters, and for posting to websites hosted on ITC UNIX or Linux Web server clusters

faculty, staff, students

automatically-granted

Research Computing Systems

For computation/memory intensive research-related programs on the high-performance computing clusters

faculty, grad students; undergrad students require a faculty sponsor

request a research computing account

Access to Restricted Resources from off-Grounds
Computing Account/What It’s For For Whom? How to Get It

UVaAnywhere & UVaAnywhere-Lite (VPN)

For accessing restricted resources (such as library journals and Software Central downloads) remotely as if on the UVa network

faculty, staff, students

no account required, but must access using personal digital certificate

Proxy Server

For accessing restricted resources (such as library journals and Software Central downloads) remotely/from off-Grounds

faculty, staff, students

see Proxy Server Account Management

VPN for Mainframe Only (Mercury)

Also Information Warehouse users without Oracle responsibilities: Log into the Cisco VPN client prior to making connections to Mercury; if you also have Oracle access, use VPN for Oracle/Mainframe, below

faculty and staff only

see VPN for Mainframe Account Management

VPN for Mainframe/Oracle (Mercury & Integrated System)

Also Information Warehouse users with Oracle responsibilities: Log into the Cisco VPN client prior to making connections to the Integrated System or Mercury; if you do not have Integrated System access, use the VPN for Mainframe Only, above

faculty and staff only

see VPN for Mainframe/Oracle Account Management

Accounts for Hosting Websites/Web Applications
Computing Account/What It’s For Description How to Get It

Home Directory Service

Online file storage for backup copies of your important academic files, and access to personal webpage publishing

 

faculty, staff, students

automatically-granted through your Eservices account

Faculty Web server

For faculty.virginia.edu websites

 

faculty; grad students require a faculty sponsor

 see Faculty Web Service

Student Council Web server

For student organization (CIO) websites

 

students

see student.virginia.edu

MySQL server

For dbm2 (Web-enabled database hosting)

 

faculty, staff, students

see MySQL Databases

www.web.virginia.edu & fusion.web.virginia.edu websites

Hosting of ASP/.NET/Cold Fusion Web applications and sites using Microsoft server technologies

 

faculty, staff

see ITC Windows Web Services

Guest Access

For guest access to UVa systems, please email accounts@virginia.edu.

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