About the UOB domain

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
to allow access to the Off-site Proxy
to allow access to the UoB virtual private network (VPN)
to authenticate access via the Single Sign-On for web applications system, which in turns control access to other services
many other services