Accounts for New Faculty, Staff, and Students
What Accounts Do I Get Automatically?
- Students: To learn more about your automatically-created computing accounts, see Student Accounts.
- Faculty and Staff: To learn more about your automatically-created computing accounts, see Faculty/Staff Accounts.
What About My UVa Email Account?
Email accounts are available to all UVa students, faculty, and staff. View your account options and request a UVa email account.
Accounts for Other ITC-Supported Services
Individual Accounts for Central Services |
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| Account | Description | For Whom? | How to Get It | |
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| UVa Email Accounts | Sending and receiving University electronic mail | faculty, staff, students | request a UVa email account | |
| Home Directory (blue.unix) | Personal webpages, file storage | faculty, staff, students | automatic | |
| UVaCollab | Course management, online collaborations, and personal file storage. No account needed; simply log into UVaCollab through NetBadge. | faculty, staff, students | automatic | |
| SharePoint | The Microsoft portal for document management and collaboration. Begin using SharePoint at the SharePoint start page. | faculty, staff, students | automatic | |
| Instructional Toolkit (placed in read-only mode at the end of Spring 2009) | Course management | faculty, staff, students | create | |
| Eservices | Network printing, UVa Exchange Service, computing lab and library workstation access, Premium Server clients, administrative operations. | faculty, staff, students | automatic | |
Access to Restricted Resources from off-Grounds |
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| Account | Description | For Whom? | How to Get It | |
| UVaAnywhere & UVaAnywhere-Lite | Remote access to Software Central downloads, protected library resources. No account required, but must access using personal digital certificate. | faculty, staff, students | download a digital certificate | |
| Proxy Server | Remote access to Software Central downloads, protected library resources | faculty, staff, students | create | |
Administrative Sites |
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| Account | Description | For Whom? | How to Get It | |
| VPN for Mainframe Only (Mercury) | (Also Information Warehouse users without Oracle responsibilities) Log in to the Cisco VPN client prior to making connections to mercury. If you also have Oracle access use the VPN for Oracle/Mainframe link below | faculty and staff only | create | |
| VPN for Mainframe/Oracle (Mercury & Integrated System) | (Also Information Warehouse users with Oracle responsibilities) Log in to the Cisco VPN client prior to making connections to the Integrated System or Mercury. If you do not have Integrated System access use the Mainframe only section above. | faculty and staff only | create | |
Research Computing Resources |
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| Account | Description | For Whom? | How to Get It | |
| Research Computing Systems | Computation/memory intensive research-related programs (HPC clusters) | faculty, grad students; undergrad students require a faculty sponsor | create | |
Accounts for Hosting Websites/Web Applications |
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| Account | Description | For Whom? | How to Get It | |
| Home Directory (blue.unix) | Personal webpages, file storage | faculty, staff, students | automatic | |
| UVaCollab | Course management, online collaborations, and personal file storage. No account needed; simply log into UVaCollab through NetBadge. | faculty, staff, students | automatic | |
| SharePoint | Exchange portal for document management and collaboration. Log in with your Eservices account and password to SharePoint. | faculty, staff, students | automatic | |
| Faculty Web server | Faculty sites | faculty; grad students require a faculty sponsor | create | |
| Student Council Web server | Student organization (CIO) sites | students only | create | |
| MySQL server | Web-enabled database hosting | faculty, staff, students | create | |
| www.web.virginia.edu | Hosting of ASP/.NET/Cold Fusion Web applications and sites using Microsoft server technologies | faculty, staff | create | |
Guest Access
For guest access to UVa systems, please contact the Accounts Office.