As part of a mandatory UND campus-wide requirement to authenticate all users on the network, ITSS will be activating Impulse SafeConnect on wired connections across the Grand Forks campus over the next several weeks.
With this system you'll have to enter your UND userid and password (NOT your medicine.nodak.edu userids and password) every time you turn your computer on before you'll have network access.
Impulse SafeConnect is the system already in use for wireless connections since the end of May, so many of you will already be familiar with it. For those of you who haven't been on the wireless, ITSS has a FAQ page that explains things:
http://itss.und.edu/safeconnect.html
The main Med School building, CEC, Biomedical Research, Neuroscience Research, and a few computers we have over at Altru are scheduled to be activated over the space of 3 days: July 20th, 21st, and 22nd, at 7am each day. The OT area in Hyslop will be scheduled at some other date that's not known yet.
Servers, printers, videoconferencing units, and other devices that are not normal computers will be excluded from the authentication requirement. Special arrangements can be made for lab computers as required.
The activation in our buildings is being spread out over 3 days to keep the number of people affected each day more manageable. It is not possible to know ahead of time who exactly will be affected on which day.
If you're not already using Impulse because of the wireless network, you can make things a bit easier on yourself by doing a few things ahead of time:
Make sure your know your UND IdM/Umail userid and password -
which is NOT the same as your medicine.nodak.edu account.
Some older U-mail accounts may have passwords that work for
U-mail, but not SafeConnect. Stop by our test machine outside
room 1123 in the main Med school building during business
hours to find out for sure if your password
will get you on the network.
Below are some links relating to UND accounts:
- Claim your UND account:
https://idm.und.edu/idm/user/quiz/securityQuiz.jsp
- Forgot your UND password? visit:
https://idm.und.edu/idm/user/userForgotPassword.jsp
- Change your UND Password
https://idm.und.edu/idm/user/login.jsp
Make sure you have Antivirus software installed and up-to-date.
Make sure your Windows updates are turned on and set to
automatically install. Both of these things will be required
before you can access the UND network.
Download and install the Impulse "PolicyKey" software. You'll
be required to have it on your machine starting next week - might
as well get it now rather than have to deal with it first thing
on the morning of an activation day. There are two versions
- Windows:
https://secure.undsmhs.net/computer/software/WinPolicyKeyInstaller.exe
- Macintosh:
https://secure.undsmhs.net/computer/software/MacPolicyKeyInstaller.zip
Other operating systems like Linux are not required to have
PolicyKey software installed.
For help with any of the above steps please contact IT Services as 7-TECH (7-8324).
