The UOB domain is a central Windows Active Directory domain, administered by IS.
All members of the University with a Bristol email address are registered in the UOB domain.
UOB domain accounts are used:
for authentication to access the central mail servers (staff-imap-srv.bris.ac.uk and student-imap-srv.bris.ac.uk), the IMSP server (imsp-srv.bris.ac.uk) and the authenticated SMTP servers (smtp-auth.bris.ac.uk)
to allow access to computers in the University's public access computer rooms(UOB access only), and computer facilities in many departments
to allow authorised users access to some administrative databases