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Short maintenance breaks for Linux shell servers on 13 and 14 November 2025
Maintenance breaks include short reboots
Aalto University participates in the digital security exercise Taisto in November 2025
Finland's largest digital security exercise helps us prepare
Aalto Creatives Art & Tech Open Call ’25 Award Ceremony
Winning projects received their awards at the Aalto Creatives Art & Tech Open Call ’25 awards ceremony on the last day of October. Two projects received development funding, two projects were awarded product prizes from Genelec, and one project was awarded both funding and Genelec's product packages.
Aalto staff's mobile phone subscriptions are being updated
If your mobile data does not work restart your phone
Aalto Wiki to require Multifactor Authentication (MFA) from 1 December 2025 onwards
MFA required when you log in from outside the Aalto network
Aalto IT Thursday News 6 November 2025 at 10 to 11
Join us to hear the latest on current topics of general interest for all Aaltonians, presented by Aalto IT.
Studies for staff offered by the Open University and FITech
The Open University and FITech Network University offer free studies for the staff of Aalto University. All staff members of Aalto University are welcome to participate in the courses.
Changes to Microsoft 365 Apps updates and Visio and Project installations
On Microsoft's recommendation, 365 Apps apps such as Word and Excel will be switched on centrally managed Windows 11 workstations to update in the Monthly Enterprise channel instead of the previous Semi-Annual Enterprise channel.
Email spam filtering had an issue on 30 October 2025
Between about 02:00 and 09:45, messages from outside Aalto have been marked as junk, but can be found in the junk folder.
Aalto Wiki: automatic archiving for workspaces that have not been edited for more than 5 years
Archiving every 3 months in the future
Eight new teams onboarded the Aalto Creatives pre-incubator programme this autumn
Eight new teams onboarded the Aalto Creatives pre-incubator programme this autumn. With ideas stemming from fields such as design, gaming, music, AI and XR, the teams take their first steps towards becoming startup founders.
The redesign of thesis management - submission and evaluation of bachelor's theses is moving to Salesforce
During the first year, 4300 thesis records have been created in Salesforce and 2700 theses have been submitted. Next, the submission and evaluation of bachelor's theses will move to Salesforce, and the study plan process for doctoral students will be developed.
UniSport membership now also available with a monthly fee!
Starting from 21 October, members of the university community can purchase UniSport membership with an affordable monthly fee. The monthly membership is fixed-term for the first 12 months, after which it continues automatically until further notice.
The Course feedback menu has moved in MyCourses
The Course feedback menu has moved from MyCourses top navigation bar to your Profile menu. The course feedback button can still be found in each course page.
Fixed 17.10. - Issue with Zoom cloud recordings on 17 October 2025
Issue fixed
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Save your recordings locally
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Save your recordings locally
The certificate for aalto and eduroam networks changes on 14 October 2025
Users may receive a notification or a confirmation request on the change of the certificate
Wide Internet issue in Finland also visible in services like Aalto's VPN
The Internet exchange point FICIX 2 is not functioning properly
eSupport maintenance break on Thursday 9.10.2025 at 7-12
eSupport (esupport.aalto.fi) system scheduled maintenance downtime
Aalto AI Assistant maintenance break on Friday 10.10.2025 at 8-9
During the break, the service is not momentarily available.
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Slowness in eSupport. The service requests will be handled as soon as possible.
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Slowness in eSupport. The service requests will be handled as soon as possible.