Setting up your work place for home office

Your computer workstation in home office

Using a laptop provided by the university

If you have a laptop provided by the university, you can work from home as usual. If you want to install additional software, you need access as an administrator for your laptop. Log in with .\Administrator. You can find the corresponding password in the ring binder you got alongside your laptop. Please take that ring binder with you to your home office!

Lending PCs (Laptops with a standard installation of Windows 10)

If you do not own a PC at home or have to use a laptop belonging to the university, you can apply to lend one from the computing centre. The request has to come from the head of your department together with the reasons for the application: via e-mail at hardwarebetreuung.its(at)uni-bamberg.de or, in urgent cases, via phone under +49 951 863-1313.

VDI (virtual standard installation) - usable from your home computer

If you want to use your private PC at home with the familiar computer settings of your university PC, you can apply for a virtual work environment (Windows 10) at the computing centre. The head of your department can send an informal request via e-mail at it-support(at)uni-bamberg.de. Please explain in a few words, why the use of such an virtual work environment is necessary for you.

Using your own computer (possibly with the program package Office 365 ProPlus)

Download und Installation des Programmpakets Office 365 ProPlus für PC/Mac(274.6 KB, 1 page)

Communication and files in your home office

Important: VPN is your connection to the university network

When you're working from home, you need a connection to the university network via VPN in nearly all cases. You will find information on how to establish your VPN here:
Instructions for setting up and using VPN(in German)

If you're using a PC that was given to you by the university with a standard installation (Windows 10), you can simply jump ahead to connecting your device, because the VPN is already installed. Otherwise you have to follow each step in the instruction.

Accessing files: Fileserver

Netzlaufwerke (Fileserver).

Telephones: voice mail and call forwarding to an external number

IAM-Portal. In that case, you can ask callers on your voice mail to to write you an e-mail.

You can find all information regarding call forwarding and voice mail on the page Anrufbeantworter. Additional information on the telephone can be found on the page Telefonie.

Team sessions via Skype for Business

With Skype for Business you can use voice- and video chat via the internet, as well as write text messages. That's why the program is useful for teamwork when all or many team members are in home office.

Voice- and video chat is possible for up to 50 persons, writing tex messages for up to 99 persons.

Information on installing and using Skype is available here: Skype for Business an der Universit?t Bamberg.

Text messsaging for project-/team communication (Rocket.Chat)

If you want to have a quick talk with team members, have a question or just quickly need to send a phone number, a link or other short message, Rocket.Chat might be a convenient tool.

You can find more information on Rocket.Chat, for example what you have to consider when creating institution specific channels, on the page Chat-Dienst Rocket.Chat.