Microsoft Powerapps is a browser-based tool on which users are able to create custom applications.  Microsoft added it to the Office 365 Education app collection this year.  

The info page of Powerapps contains a short overview plus links to written guides and instructional videos.

Cloud services used by Metropolia students and staff.

Computer sale in Leppävaara on April 5, 2017 from 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Computer sale in Leppävaara on April 5, 2017 from 3:00pm to 6:00pm

Location and time:
Leppävaara: April 5, 2017 from 3:00pm to 6:00pm


Metropolia is selling used computers and peripherals. Price is determined by brand, model and level of operability.

Further information:  http://tinyurl.com/oto8lep

Helpdesk Phone Service is on call from 8:00 am to noon on March 28, 2017 due to the meeting.

If you have IT problems, you can make a service request on http//hd.metroopolia.fi

The wireless network and the login service will go under maintenance on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 4pm.

The login service maintenance affects logging in to Oma and Tuubi but not to logging in to workstations and email. The login service outages will be short.

The staff wireless network metropolia-secure will be unavailable for the rest of the day.

Eduroam outages will be shorter. Accordingly, the eduroam network can be used instead of the metropolia-secure network.

Printing services are under maintenance on March 29th

Printing service is being updated with the service provider on March 29th beginning at 12 noon.

During the maintenance, there may be short outages with the printing services.

PaperCut online payment service is offline on March 29th as well. Purchasing balance for PaperCut system is offline also.

We apologize for the service interrupts that may occur during the maintenance.


Best regards,
IT Services

OMA General Desktop maintenance break Tuesday March 14th from 3:00 to 3:15 pm

During the break, users can see a service outage window, where can switch to the other OMA Desktops and services.

 

IT Services

There are breaks on IT Services from March 17 to March 19, 2017

There are breaks on IT Services due to maintenance work during weekend from March 17 to March 19, 2017.

Additionally services are working slower than normally.

On Sunday March 19, 2017, access servers of Microsoft Office 365 are updated. This will case disruptions in logging in O365 cloud services of Metropolia all the day.

 

Saturday, March 18, 2017

Email

Skype For Business

Finance and personnel services

 

Sunday, March 19, 2017

Access servers of Microsoft Cloud Services

Windows servers of teaching

Tuubi workspaces will be transferred to OMA between March 3 at 3pm and March 6 at 8am. The new workspace service will be opened on March 6 at 8am in OMA.

Teacher! If you have set the workspace tasks return dates between 3 March to 6 March we ask you to change the return date because tasks cannot be returned between those dates.

E-lomake will be transferred to another server.

Due to system transfer E-lomake is totally out of usage between 2pm to 4pm at 28. March 2017.

Forms located in http://elomake.metropolia.fi are not in use in that time. There will be  Out of service notification to E-lomake users.

If the notification is still on after 4pm 28. March the page should be refreshed by pressing CTRL+F5 in order to open e-lomake forms.

 

IT-services

The OMA Workspaces will be initialized on March 6. 

Improvements and changes coming through the initialization

1 Navigation on the left.
2 Workspaces created automatically.
3 Teachers can tell what other tools are being used.
4 Improvements to uploading and downloading.
5 Notification service.
6 Settings & Profile can be entered from the upper right corner.

Improvements and changes coming in March

7 Directories and documents visible just or admins.
8 Students get a notification right away when teacher evaluates an assignment.
9 A more efficient search engine.
10 Reservations are imported the calendar from reservations.

Read a detailed report on forthcoming improvements and changes:
Vanhan ja uuden työtilapalvelun eroja - Differences between the old and new workspaces

The problem of Network Drive System is solved, home directories are working again.

 

Tuubi workspaces to OMA

Metropolia Virtual Campus

New cloud services

These are the main items of the February 2017 issue of the Information Management in Metropolia e-zine. Highlights in English are provided at the end of the bulletin.

There are breaks, about 10 minutes on Network Drives System on February 20, 2017 from noon to 2pm.

The Network Drive System is updated.