Instituto Superior Técnico
- 2 of Dec.
- 2024
Holidays Support
We inform you that in-person support from IT Services is closed between the 23rd and 31st of December 2024, with telephone support (21 841 7506) and email (si@tecnico.ulisboa.pt) continuing to be available.
- 31 of Jul.
- 2023
Remote Support
On the 31st of July and 1st and 2nd of August, support will be provided remotely, unless when strictly necessary and with prior scheduling.
- 2 of Nov.
- 2021
E-mail service is down
The email service was unavailable between 00:05 and 19:25 today, November 2, 2021.
The cause of the problem is related to data corruption, caused by a hardware failure in a disk system that affected thousands of mailboxes. Despite the multiple levels of redundancy that the mail …
- 5 of Feb.
- 2018
IST became member of eduGAIN identity federation
Our authentication portal and identity provider have became a member of eduGAIN identity federation. With this integration it is now possible to access more than 1800 online web services most of which depend on eduGAIN federated login.
To read more please to eduGAIN website.
- 22 of Oct.
- 2016
Abuse avoidance mechanism implemented on e-mail accounts
Our e-mail mailbox server has now a mechanism to fight against e-mail account abuse. This mechanism was implement so we can avoid that user abuse of this service to do mass mailing which normally puts our e-mail servers on SPAM Black Lists, also known as …
- 25 of May.
- 2016
System Maintenance: Fénix and all IST, IST-ID and ADIST Administrative Applications
At 8 p.m. of May’s 25th, a necessary technical intervention will make Fénix and all IST, IST-DSI and ADIST administrative applications offline.
We apologize for any inconvenience this downtime will cause you.
- 12 of Apr.
- 2016
DNSSEC available in the domain “tecnico.ulisboa.pt”
Since April 4th, the domain “tecnico.ulisboa.pt” is being supported by DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions).
This change allows a step further towards an improvement in access security to computer services hosted in IST.
This new feature will allow the publication of various types of DNS records …
- 15 of Dec.
- 2015
Temporary interruption of data network service – 16th Dec. 2015 at 7 PM
We inform you that on the 16th of December, 2015, at 7 PM the data network of Universidade de Lisboa will have a technical interruption to reorganize the connections and traffic routing.
During this intervention all Técnico and INESC (Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers) networks …
- 14 of Dec.
- 2015
Front office schedule – 17th Dec. 2015
Exceptionally on the 17th Dec. 2015 DSI front office will close at 3:30 PM.
We apologize for the inconvenience, however, we will return our normal schedule on the other days.
- 3 of Dec.
- 2015
New webmail system
Técnico’s webmail system at https://webmail.tecnico.ulisboa.pt will have a new design on Monday, 7th December 2015 around 3 PM.
The structure will be similar to the current version with no significant changes in how to use the webmail system.
- 12 of Nov.
- 2015
Ephorus: Logins Cancelled
We inform that the logins to the application Ephorus were cancelled in October by Turnitin manufacturer throughout ULisboa, following a failure renewal of this software.
The software in this contract is the Urkund, and wait for details about the disposal.
It is likely that the creation of …
- 27 of Oct.
- 2015
Ephorus/Turnitin – Login unavailable
We inform that the logins on the website of Ephorus / Turnitin are temporarily blocked.
Following the acquisition of the company by Ephorus Turnitin, coinciding with the renewal of the current contract, the manufacturer maintains the logins already allocated suspended throughout ULisboa.
This difficulty began in mid-October, and …
- 15 of Sep.
- 2015
Office365 available to the domains *.ulisboa.pt
We inform that is possible to download office 365.
- 7 of Sep.
- 2015
Office365 is temporarily unavailable to the domains *.ulisboa.pt
The portal Office365 for the domains *.ulisboa.pt has temporarily inhibited the use of several applications out of the cloud.
We hope that the situation normalize within a few days.
- 8 of Jun.
- 2015
Technical interruption at FenixEdu Web Service
Today, 08th June, after 7 PM will be performed a technical intervention to set up the new version of the Fénix system (version 5).
The system will be unavailable between 19h and 20h.
We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate the feedback to be sent to: dsi@tecnico.ulisboa.pt.
- 3 of Jun.
- 2015
New interface to visualize projects at Dot: Aplicações Administrativas IST, IST-ID e ADIST
On 4th June 2015 will be available at Aplicações Centrais a new interface to visualize data from Módulo de Gestão de Projetos (MGP).
This new interface will allow users to obtain a set of information by coordinator, cost center and project.
We appreciate the feedback to be …
- 14 of May.
- 2015
Ephorus available for free untill 31 Dec. 2015 | Teachers
Computer and Network Services offers the possibility for IST teachers to test Ephorus (https://www.ephorus.com/pt-pt/) for free until 31th Dec. 2015.
Please send an e-mail with your request to: dsi@tecnico.ulisboa.pt
- 27 of Mar.
- 2015
Office365 is now available
Microsoft Office365 is now available to IST community. Read more here.
- 20 of Feb.
- 2015
The new digital identity | Técnico ID
From 2nd March the Computer and Network Services at IST will provide a new authentication service for the several websites and services of Técnico, safer and optimized for mobile devices, called Técnico ID. The username (ex: ist12345) and password will remain the same, but the …
- 22 of Jan.
- 2015
Technical intervention at Dot System: Administrative Application for IST, IST-ID and ADIST
On the 23rd of January, after 10 PM a technical intervention will take place to set up the new version of the Administrative Applications for IST, IST-ID and ADIST. Therefore these services will be unavailable around 3 hours.
We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate the …
- 16 of Jan.
- 2015
Technical interruption at FenixEdu Web Service
On the 19th January, after 7 PM will be performed a technical intervention to set up the new version of the Fénix system (version 4), developed by FénixEDU Team of DSI.
During the period of about 6 hours several features of the system will not be …
- 15 of Jan.
- 2015
Campus Alameda has Google Maps Indoor
Instituto Superior Técnico’s Computer and Network Services (DSI) established, last year, a partnership with Google, making this school a pioneer Portuguese institution with Google Maps Indoors, a feature that allows users to access the internal maps of buildings/Campus.
Campus Alameda will be the first to be …
- 16 of Dec.
- 2014
Front office schedule – 17th Dec. 2014
Exceptionally on the 17th Dec. 2014 DSI front office will close at 3:30 PM.
We apologize for the inconvenience, however, we will return our normal schedule on the other days.
- 24 of Sep.
- 2014
Technical interruption at Dot System: Administrative Application for IST, IST-ID and ADIST
On the 29th of September, after 6:30 PM a technical intervention will take place on the Administrative Applications for IST, IST-ID and ADIST. Therefore these services will be unavailable around 2 or 3 hours.
We apologize for this temporary inconvenience.
- 31 of Jul.
- 2014
Failure of several information systems
Yesterday, 30th of July, due to a failure in a Network Attached Storage, several operating systems that depended on this where affected by this problem.
As we are in the holiday season, right now we have a reduced technical operations team which contributed to a larger …
- 17 of Jun.
- 2014
Enhance of the size limit for e-mail messages up to 25MB
You can send messages up to 25 megabytes (MB) in size. If you would like to send attachments that are larger than this, please use “FileSender” from FCCN service .
- 28 of May.
- 2014
MySQL service failure on server “db.tecnico.ulisboa.pt” / “db.ist.utl.pt”
Last Sunday, May 25th at 23h50 we had a major data corruption on our MySQL service hosted on server db.ist.utl.pt. It was necessary to do full recover from backups. The recover was only completed on May 28th at 18h. During the recovery process some databases …
- 27 of May.
- 2014
Technical interruption at FenixEdu Web Service
On the 28th of May, after 7 pm a technical intervention will take place at the web service http://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt therefore the web service will be unavailable around 6 hours.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
- 14 of Apr.
- 2014
High Definition Streaming Video Service
Besides borrowing audio-visual material for image recording (video camera, tripod and wireless microphone), a new service is currently available to the Técnico community. You can now use a new tool for recording and streaming video, the Matrox HD Monarch, which allows the streaming of live …
- 27 of Feb.
- 2014
FenixEdu project will award the best sentence
The Ignition event of the FenixEdu project is integrated in the XXI SINFO. On Thursday, February 27, the team of the FenixEdu project will be participating in SINFO, throughout the day.
10:00am – 05:20pm \ Workshops – Room 01.1 (Congress Center)
Members of the FenixEdu project team …
- 27 of Jan.
- 2014
Update OpenAFS
It is necessary to update the OpenAFS client.
Due to a security issue the old clients will stop working on the 5th of February. On this day DSI will perform an upgrade to OpenAFS servers which is incompatible with older clients.
To continue using the OpenAFS on …
- 13 of Jan.
- 2014
Fenix Downtime
The Fénix system will be taken off-line for maintenance during this night.
The expected system downtime is about 2 hours and will begin around 21h00.
- 4 of Nov.
- 2013
Técnico e-mail addresses: new domain @tecnico.ulisboa.pt
Since the creation of the new domain @tecnico.ulisboa.pt the e-mail addresses of Técnico have been transferred to xxxxxxxxxx@tecnico.ulisboa.pt which means that the addresses remain basically the same, just the domain changes.
In order to use the new domain @tecnico.ulisboa.pt, you must reconfigure or update your account settings. Please follow …
- 21 of May.
- 2013
- 21 of May.
- 2013
- 8 of Mar.
- 2013
- 27 of Sep.
- 2012
- 7 of Sep.
- 2012
- 7 of Sep.
- 2012
Redesign of websites of the central units of the IST
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