Network Terms And Conditions

In consideration of the IT Services department in Trinity College Dublin providing network access for your College-owned and privately-owned computers to the wired network in offices and labs, or to the Staff Wi-Fi and Staff VPN services, you agree as follows:

• To ensure that your computer conforms to the minimum hardware and software specifications for the time being set down by IT Services.
• To abide by the University Board approved IT and Cyber Security Policy and its supporting documentation for the time being set down by IT Services.

In addition, for all devices connecting to the College wired network, Staff Wi-Fi or Staff VPN the following requirements must be met:

• All College-owned and privately-owned Windows and Apple Mac computers registered for these networks must be enrolled in the centrally-managed endpoint management solution. Users must not unenrol their computer from the centrally-managed endpoint management solution until such time as their computer will no longer be used on these networks.
• Users of College-owned and privately-owned Windows computers must authenticate with their Trinity computer account credentials when connected to these networks, and not carry out work under ‘local’ account logins.
• All users of Windows computers on these networks should ensure they are added as an Administrator.
• All users of Apple Macs on these networks must know their local Administrator account password, IT Services will not have a record of this.
• All users of College-owned and privately-owned Windows and Apple Macs on these networks must permit IT Services to install security updates and feature updates on College-owned and privately-owned computers on a regular basis using the centrally managed endpoint management solution. The installation of these updates can require an enforced system restart, with users being provided with prior notification of the restart deadline.
• All users of College-owned and privately-owned Windows and Apple Macs on these networks must permit IT Services to install licensed anti-virus software, apply security settings and manage native disk encryption via the centrally managed endpoint management solution. Any related settings or software installed should not be removed, disabled or reconfigured.
• Users must not remove/disable/reconfigure the configurations or settings relating to connectivity to the Trinity network nor permit personnel outside of IT Services staff to do so.
• IT Services staff must be permitted to take remote control of College-owned and privately-owned computers on these networks should this be necessary to troubleshoot problems.
• If a users' Trinity computer account expires or is disabled, all network facilities will be terminated for that user. In the event of such termination users are obliged to remove any Trinity-owned software, or software installed under Trinity site license, and to request assistance in unenrolling their Windows or Apple Mac computer from the centrally-managed endpoint management solution, as per removing Trinity software and settings.
• As per IT and Cyber Security policy, IT Services will monitor computers enrolled in the centrally-managed endpoint management solution for compliance with certain operating system, anti-virus and encryption requirements.  Non-compliance can include a malware risk, running an unsupported operating system version, or misconfiguration of anti-virus or encryption settings. Where the nature of non-compliance of a computer constitutes a security risk, and where our efforts to request that action to be taken have failed, IT Services will proceed to technically disconnect the non-compliant computer from internet and network access.  The disconnection will take place irrespective of the location the computer is currently being used in, whether on-campus or off-campus, and connection will be restored once it is confirmed the required actions will be taken to bring the device back into a compliant state.
• IT Services reserves the right to render any network point inactive at any time.
• It is forbidden to 'share' network points on the College wired network i.e. it is forbidden for more than one machine to use a single network point. It is required that you request the same number of network points to be activated as there are machines connecting to the network.
• As per the College Structured Cabling System policy and the College Wireless policy, it is not permitted to connect networking equipment such as routers, access points and switches to the Trinity network.
• College-owned and privately-owned computers connected to these networks will be permitted to use the internet only via IT Services supported web browsers.
• College-owned and privately-owned computers will be permitted to access their College email only via IT Services supported email clients.
• Postgraduates are limited to having one privately-owned computer connected to the College wired network.
• Users of Linux/Windows Dual-Boot systems i.e. users with both Linux and Windows operating systems installed on the computer must choose the Linux/Windows Dual-Boot option in the network request form. These users must indicate via the Comments field in the network request form which versions of the operating systems are installed. Failure to indicate the presence of additional operating systems on your machine could lead to disconnection from the network.