Office 365

IIT Delhi has subscribed the Microsoft 365 for a along with Microsoft Campus Agreement for all faculty,staff and students. "Microsoft Office 365" refers to subscription plans that include access to Office applications plus other productivity services that are enabled over the Internet (cloud services) on cloud storage OneDrive.  It also include the desktop version of the latest Office applications, which users can install across multiple computers and devices. The fully installed applications include: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access. (Publisher and Access are available on PC only.) And you can install them across multiple devices, including PCs, Macs, Android tablets, Android phones, iPad, and iPhone. When you have an active Office 365 subscription that includes the desktop version of Office, you always have the most up-to-date version of the applications. To use and install one has to login at https://office.com/ using IITD userid and Passoword

Note: Users Database is being Synced with IIT Delhi database. If someone has changed Password in IIT Delhi, his/her password would be automatically updated in Office.com. and one can avail this microsoft services only if he is active user of IIT Delhi, Otherwise the services will be withdrawn from Microsoft side. Microsoft has told that it will retain data belongs to deactivated accounts upto three months. Users are adviced to download all data from onedrive within 3 months of deactivation of account

To sign in suffix is “@csciitd.onmicrosoft.com” as if userid is “xyz” then sign in user must be xyz@csciitd.onmicrosoft.com

After Keying Username, it will ask for password

After signing in one can use it on Mircrosoft Cloud “One Drive” or can install locally on Microsoft Windows Device or Mac with different options as mentioned below

Press “Yes” for User Account Control

One has to Activate for the same UserId, by which it was signed in.

Revision of IITD Internet Access Policies.

 

Recently, the Institute resolved to liberalise the port restrictions and proxy requirements for IITD Internet. 

 

Some of the key highlights are:

• the domain iitd.ac.in will be the primary domain for IIT Delhi (iitd.ernet.in is deprecated and may not be supported in future)
• a revised IIT Delhi IT Policy comprising of (1) The IITD IT Usage Policy (ii) The IITD IT Privacy Policy & (iii) The Network Access & Monitoring policy. (see www.cc.iitd.ac.in for details).
• Port restriction are being removed from all authenticated (802.1x) access points (e.g. IITD_WIFI)
• Please note that this means users may visit any sites/services. Howeve proper traceability of IP addresses will be maintained and in case of any violation of IITD Policies including illegal downloads of copyrighted content, strict action will be taken which may includes appropriate fines and or suspension of Internet priviliges and or the CSC ID.
• For unauthenticated Wired Services — Current Proxy Based Access will continue.
• Guest access is now permitted only through IITD_Secure_GUEST and the unsecured IITD_GUEST/IITD_Guests is being withdrawn.

 

User Acceptance of Revised Policies

As a part of the implementation process, the administration also approved a revised IIT Delhi IT Policy comprising of (1) The IITD IT Usage Policy (ii) The IITD IT Privacy Policy & (iii) The Network Access & Monitoring policy. As resolved by the Dean's Committee, each user is required to review & accept these policies to avail of IITD Internet & IT Facilities. You may visit https://track.iitd.ac.in/iitdpolicy.php to review and accept these policies. You will need to login with your kerberos ID.

Please note that you will need to visit the above site and agree to the policy by the 15th of Jan 2017, failing which your Internet privileges will be suspended.

The revised policies will come into effect from Jan 16th 2017.

For any queries you may call x-7126 or write to sysadm@cc.iitd.ac.in.

 

Note regarding Security:Please be sure to check whether a email is genuinely from the IIT Admins -- look at the original source (all email clients can show this) and check the authenticated sender & DKIM signature for IIT Delhi. Also before entering your user ID/Password at a site you should make sure the sites security certificate is valid and authenticated with the IITD Certificate(s). See CSC website for further details on Digital Singing of emails and IITD CA Certificates.