User administration

To be able to use the services of the Central IT Service, you need a user account for authentication purposes. You receive this at the start of your studies or employment.
Together with your user account you get a size of 2 GB for your homedrive, 1 GB for your roaming profile and currently 200 MB for your mailbox.
Please, note that your data at the homedrive are not backed up.
The user is personally responsible for a back up of his data.

For an account to be issued, you must agree to the Guidelines for Use .

The user account allows you access ...

  • to the student portal (Primuss)
  • to the webmail system
  • to the university's PCs (Internet use for research purposes, PC pools, labs, library)
  • to the Moodle learning platform
  • to the university's WLAN
  • to any systems of the various faculties

Before log-in (Initialpassword)

When the user account is created, a randomly generated password is assigned. This password must be changed to a password of your choice the first time you log in to our webmail system or on a computer on the campus.

You cannot use the services without changing the password!

It should be in your own interests to choose a sufficiently complex password to avoid any misuse by third parties.

 

For beginners: Here you will find the self-learning course Introduction to IT Systems!
If you have not found your Login Data, please login as guest.

 

Multi factor

To secure your account please acitvate a second factor

You can see your logins over https://mysignins.microsoft.com/

In the security settings you can set a second factor authentication (https://aka.ms/setupsecurityinfo).

Set up the Microsoft Authenticator app as your verification method - Microsoft Support

Changing the password

The password can be changed Office Portal https://myaccount.microsoft.com/ or on all the university's PCs, after logging on to these, by pressing the key combination "CTRL + ALT + DEL".

Please be care it can take up to 20 minutes that the password is active in all systems

Forgotten your password?

If you have set a second factor in your account, you can reset your password by your self: https://passwordreset.microsoftonline.com/

With out a second factor send a mail with a copy of your studentcard to support@thi.de