UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

IT Services

Standard Staff Desktop (SSD) Remote Desktop Service

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Description of service

Remote desktop service offering a set of core applications aligned with the latest version of a Standard Staff Desktop (SSD) desktop system together with a familiar login experience offering mapped home and departmental file store drives.
Please note: that as this is a remote desktop server environment users are not be able to install their own software for security, stability and licensing reasons.

Availability

24x7x52 subject to occasional maintenance downtime.

Service adoption enquiries

Staff with a CAMPUS active directory configured SSD account automatically have access to the SSD remote desktop service as long as the Remote Desktop Service protocol is supported on their Operating System (currently Windows and Macintosh). How to connect.

Contact your local IT staff for advice. Local IT staff contacts

Charges and fees

Centrally funded - no additional charge to Colleges or University Services for the standard service.

Customer obligation

Users of this service are expected to familiarise themselves with the information on using this service.

Support
Customer service issues

Service issues should be raised in the first instance with:

IT Helpdesk
e-mail: IThelpdesk@glasgow.ac.uk
web: http://wwww.gla.ac.uk/it/helpdesk

or subsequently with

Director of IT Services
James Watt North Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ

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