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Accounts & Access

Access to the campus network and the numerous online resources needed by our students and employees requires user accounts associated to each individual. These accounts are created for students when they are admitted to the university and for employees upon confirmation of their employment.

Students and employees should take great care in keeping their account passwords confidential. Passwords should never be shared with anyone, regardless of their role with the university. Users with access to the campus network and online resources must abide by the Computer Use Policy.

OCU Network Account

While Oklahoma City University is working to simplify the technology access process to a single username and password, there are still a few online services that are tied to your OCU network user account. Computer login, print access, and wireless access are among these services. Your OCU Network credentials are everything before the @ in your email address. For example, [email protected] network username would be just jdoe and the corresponding password associated with that username.

Students are initially provided their campus access credentials (Microsoft 365 credentials) via email during the Admissions process. Contact your Admissions Counselor if you have not yet received this information.

Employees are provided their access credentials from their supervisors upon employment and only after the Human Resources department has processed the new employee's information in Banner.

Want to change your network password, or you have forgotten it?

Go to the Password Self-Service site located at password.okcu.edu to manage your network password. It is strongly recommended that everyone with a network account visit this site to setup a series of secret questions and answers you can use to retrieve a forgotten password.

Where do I go if the Password Self-Service site cannot help me?

Bring your StarCard (the university's ID card) to our Helpdesk, located in room 136 of the University Center, and a Campus Technology Services employee will help you out.

Student email account

Student email accounts are not tied to the students' network accounts. These accounts are completely independent and will be used only for accessing Office 365 and email.

Students are initially provided their email credentials via email (to their non-OCU email account) during the Admissions process. Contact your Admissions counselor if you have not yet received this information.

Know your email account but forgot your password?

The first thing to try is use the tools in Office 365, assuming you have previously setup your secret questions and answers within Office 365. Go to office.com, enter your email address, click "can't access your account" link, and follow the prompts from there.

Still have problems with your email account?

Bring your StarCard (the university's ID card) to our Helpdesk, located in room 136 of the University Center, and a Campus Technology Services employee will help you out.

VPN access for employees

On rare occasions, university employees might find the need to to access internal network resources while off campus. This is only necessary when such resources are restricted to internal network access only. In these rare cases, authorized employees may establish a virtual private network (VPN) connection from their remote computer to the campus network.

Requirements

To access Oklahoma City University's network via VPN, the following requirements must be met:

Once Network Services has received your signed VPN Access Policy Acceptance Form, you will be sent instructions on how to configure your machine.

Accessing the VPN

Follow the instructions in this document to connect to OCU's VPN.

Using your VPN connection

While connected, if you wish to map to a network drive or use Remote Desktop to connect to a computer on the campus network, make sure to use the full domain name for the machine. This means, your machine name will be in the format: machine_name.okcu.edu Do not forget to disconnect the VPN connection when finished accessing resources on the OCU network.