Working From Home

Using the IOE Portal (for E-Mail and N drives)

• Enter this URL to your home (or off-site) computer (won't work from your SSRU computer) https://portal.ioe.ac.uk/
• Enter your UserName, Password in the usual way.
• You'll see links for your e-mail and N drive.
• Remember to log off when you've finished

Notes related to the Portal:

If you want to use drives other than N, copy items to your N drive first, that you want to use from home (e.g. just before the week-end), edit the items, and then upload them back to your N drive. When you get back to work, simply overwrite the item on the shared drive, be aware that other people might have done the same thing with the same file: this will eventually delete the modifications on one of the two “home versions” of the same file.

Alternate route for E-Mail only

If you don't want to use the portal above, you can access email as follows:

URL: https://m1.ioe.ac.uk/exchange

UserName: IOE\xxxyyzzz
Password: **********

(replace xxxyyzzz above with your usual IOE login)

You will get a web version of Outlook that's very similar to what you see while sitting at your desk, but sometimes the way the buttons work is different. If you're not sure what a button or icon is for, you can hover the mouse over it, and wait for a hint to appear.

Remember to empty deleted items at least once per week, otherwise your mailbox will get full. Use the wastepaper basket icon at the top of the screen for this.

Notes on the alternate method:

The URL is what you type into the "address bar" at the top of your internet browser. You can bookmark the URL for later use.

After you type in the URL and press Enter, you will see two boxes; one for username and one for password. Be sure to prefix your username with IOE\

In some browsers you may see three boxes (an extra box for the domain). In this case, you can just ignore the "domain" box and follow instructions as above.

(Last updated Dec 2009)