Maintenance will be carried out on the VPN service (including vendor VPN) and the Zengaku (University-wide) Information Outlet and Network System as follows.

During this time, the VPN service will be out of service for about 10 minutes twice, and the Zengak (university-wide) information outlet network system will be out of service for about 10 minutes once.

Date and time: 10:00 p.m. Saturday, December 21, 2024 to 2:00 a.m. Sunday, December 22
Work: Maintenance of VPN service and Zengaku (University-wide) Information Outlet and Network System

SINET notified for maintenance schedule for network connection for Tsukuba university and Tokyo campus as follows.

①　Date and time: 2024/11/02 (Sat) 00:00 – 02:00
※There will be a communication outage of up to about 1 hour during the above time.

②　Date and time: 2024/12/21 (Sat) 03:00 – 06:00
※There will be two communication outages of up to about 15 minutes during the above time.

https://www.sinet.ad.jp/announce/maintenance_ongoing (external site)

SINET is used for connections outside the university and to the Tokyo campus.

(Updated 4/12/2024, 16:30)
Due to a system malfunction, the email accounts of those graduating at the end of the 2023 academic year were locked. We were worked on a temporary solution. Accounts will be made available in due course.

As this is a temporary solution, only email will be available from 2024/04/20 onwards.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Due to a system malfunction, the email accounts of those graduating at the end of the 2023 academic year were locked. We are currently working on a temporary solution.
Sorry, please wait until it is available.
As this is a temporary solution, only email will be available from 2024/04/20 onwards.

Microsoft support for Office 2019 for Mac ended on October 10, 2023.

Therefore, we will also end the provision of the download station (software distribution management system) at our university.
Office 2019 for Mac will continue to work for a while, but please upgrade to the new version of Office from a security perspective.

For the upgrade

If you have a @u or @un email account, then using the comprehensive agreement between our university and Microsoft, you can install Microsoft 365 Office app, launch and sign in to use it.

For more details on Microsoft 365 Office (personal use of Microsoft products), please refer to Microsoft Products (for private use)/

If you use Microsoft 365 Office (which has been installed by the PC administrator user) on a PC shared by multiple users having @u or @un, please create a PC account (profile) for each user. Every user can sign in then use it after login the PC with his/her own PC account.
* Using Microsoft 365 Office from a common PC account (same ID/password) suffers from the risk that one’s OneDrive, etc., are open to access by multiple persons.

For cases such that non-member users (do not have @u or @un) to use Office on a shared PC, please contact us.

Contact for this matter

Please find and follow “Contact” at the bottom of https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/service/software-license/ees/

Microsoft has announced significant changes to Microsoft Teams (hereinafter referred to as “Teams”).
This implies that users will need to switch to the new Teams app.
The existing app (hereinafter referred to as the “old app”) is scheduled to be unavailable after March 2024.

[Summary]

• Microsoft is making changes to Teams.
• The old app will no longer be available after March 2024.
• Users will be able to switch between the old and new apps starting in January 2024.
• The new app is already available (However, the Web browser version is not yet available).
• Please research the features of the new app individually if necessary.

Our university plans to allow users to choose and implement the transition from the old app to the new Teams in response to these changes (scheduled for January 2024).

Those currently using the old app will be able to introduce the new Teams through its features.

※　Please note that the old app distribution has already ended, so this announcement does not apply to those who have already adopted the new app.

For reference information on the new Teams, please visit the following site: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software/

[Note]
The Academic Computing & Communications Center does not provide support for using the app.
However, we do address account-related issues. Please research the specific usage of the app on your own.

The utwlan-pub service, which was used to obtain the passphrase for utwlan-w in the On-Campus Wi-Fi System, will be terminated at the end of November.

To new students enrolled in September or October

The initial password for the Unified Authentication System notified to you by card or other means will expire if you do not change it within the specified period.

If you have not changed it yet, please do so immediately from the Unified Authentication System page.

(We have also announced this to the relevant persons by e-mail.)

As announced before, Microsoft Stream (classic) is replaced by Stream (on SharePoint) in a certain term so please move your videos accordingly.

In this case, the following problems may occur.

• Videos on Stream (classic) owned by users who have quit (retired, graduated, etc.) our University will be deleted according to the replacement.
• Only the owners of the videos on Stream (classic) can operate, including downloading.
  Therefore, other users cannot access these videos if the owners have quit.

Due to copyright issues, ACCC cannot change the ownership of such videos without the owners’ consent.

Owners who plan to leave please transfer the ownership to other members beforehand.

See also:
Migration to Stream (on SharePoint) following the Discontinuation of Stream (Classic)
https://www.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp_e/stream-classic-discontinuation/