Remote Access
Remote access to a variety of campus resources is available to all faculty, administration, and authorized staff. As a reminder, you are responsible for the operation and upkeep of your personal computer and home network. If remote access solutions are not working on your personal computer, try performing a general cleanup.
All remote access is subject to our Remote Access Policies.
Multi Factor Authentication (DUO)
Under the direction of the Information Security Office Multi Factor Authentication (A.K.A Two-Factor Authentication) is required for certain resources (VPN, Outlook Webaccess, Outlook Phone App and Office 365).
What does this mean? Instead of just entering your password to authenticate, an additional factor will be required. Examples include a prompt from a mobile app, a text message or a phone call.
For more information on Duo, please visit the Duo MFA site. From this page, you will also have the opportunity to enroll in Duo.
E-mail
Outlook
Outlook can be accessed by all users via Outlook Web Access.
Mobile
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
Connecting to AVD is like sitting down at a Department of Medicine workstation right on campus - from anywhere! You'll have access to all the Office 365 Services (Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, etc), SOMFiles data (mapped drives such as I:), and access to other UMMS/SOM/FPI resources, such as EPIC and the UMMS Store.
Further information can be found here.
VPN
The SOM VPN (virtual private network) is used to remotely connect to internal resources from Department of Medicine supported devices. To use this system please submit an incident ticket including a description of what services you require and the host name of the supported device. Once access is granted instructions can be found here.
Please note that access to the SOM VPN is subject to removal without notice if unused.
Other Access
If unsure or you require other access, please submit an incident ticket describing what services or applications you would like to access and a tech will contact you.