What is the difference between my Network ID and my ADS domain account?

At Indiana University, your Network ID and your ADS domain account each allow access to a variety of services. The passphrases for both of these accounts, as well as many other IU computing accounts, are synchronized when you reset or change your passphrase using the Passphrase Maintenance utility at:

For more, see At IU, how do I change or synchronize my Network ID passphrase?

ADS domain account services

• Logging into Windows computers in the Student Technology Centers (STCs) at IU Bloomington and IUPUI
  
  
• Accessing your Exchange account
  
  
• Authenticating to services using CAS, such as OneStart, Oncourse CL, TIME, IUCAT, and many administrative online services
  
  
• Authenticating to your Cyrus mail account
  
  
• Accessing the IU virtual private network (VPN) on your home computer

Network ID services

• Creating new accounts, setting your preferred email address, listing the accounts you already have or for which you are eligible, and accessing related services from the UITS Account Management Service at: https://itaccounts.iu.edu/

  Note: For information about managing departmental, student organization, or other nonprimary accounts (i.e., group accounts for which you are the owner) using the Account Management Service (AMS), see Managing your IU group or departmental accounts.

• Changing or resetting your UITS shared central systems account passphrases using the Passphrase Maintenance page at: https://passphrase.iu.edu/
• Logging into Mac OS X computers in the UITS Student Technology Centers
  
  
• Dialing into the IU modem pool
  
  
• Authenticating to your accounts on the research systems (Big Red, Quarry, the Research Database Complex)
  
  
• Accessing web sites such as QuizSite and IUware Online

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