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Through the federal contract, employees can use the product Microsoft Office 365 free of charge.

Note

In order to use the product, it is necessary to consent to the transfer of your data to Microsoft. This can be done in the IDM portal.

Product scope of the Microsoft Office 365 licence:

  • Word
  • Excel
  • PowerPoint
  • Outlook
  • Access (only for Windows)
  • Publisher (only for Windows)
  • InfoPath (only for Windows)
  • OneNote

Instructions

Step 1:

Step 2:

  • Select the item "Synchronisation Microsoft Azure Cloud".

Step 3:

  • Read the terms and conditions and agree to them if necessary
    • Note: If you do not agree, the software cannot be used!

Step 4:

  • Your account will now be transferred from @ad.tu-freiberg.de to @tu-freiberg.
  • Your data will be transferred to the Microsoft cloud (name, email and login ID).
    • Note: This process can take up to one day.

Step 5:

  • After some time, log in to the office.com portal with your new login @tu-freiberg.de.
  • After entering your login name, you will be redirected to the TU Bergakademie Freiberg login page (federation.ad.tu-freiberg.de) so that you can authenticate yourself with your password.
  • The password of your account will remain exclusively with us at the data centre and will not be forwarded to Microsoft.
  • Please make sure that you only enter your password on federation.ad.tu-freiberg.de to avoid phishing attempts.

Step 6:

  • After logging in, you will be redirected back to the Office.com portal.
  • An "Install Office" link will appear in the top right-hand corner.
  • After clicking on the first option, a download will start.
  • You can use this to install your Office application on up to 5 devices used for business purposes.