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STRW Zoom and UL

Since Januari 22, 2021 the University has a Zoom Business license, currently for Educational purpose only. However, soon the University Zoom License may be used for all communications. Therefore, these two systems STRW and UL need to run side by side for a while.

Unfortunately, Zoom cannot handle the same ZoomID (strw email address) for multiple licenses. And because in the near future the UL Zoom license will be leading, it must hold your STRW email as ZoomID. But since the same email address is currently connected to the STRW license you need to change that. In fact it is very easy to do that! Since we also own the mail domain @astronomy.nl it is just a matter of changing your email address from @strw.leidenuniv.nl into @astronomy.nl. Emails sent to you with @astronomy.nl will end up in your standard Sterrewacht email box.

So you must do the following to make use of both systems and still be able to continue using the STRW Zoom license:

  • Change your ZoomID in the sterrewachtleiden.zoom.us licensed environment. (section Change your ZoomID)
  • Now make sure you clear your browser cache and cookies (this differs among the different browsers)
  • Go to universiteitleiden.zoom.us and create your account there, by just logging in (section University Zoom site)

Change your ZoomID

If you try to change your login ID from the desktop client, you’ll be redirected to Zoom’s official portal. So, we’re demonstrating the method of changing your password from the official portal itself. On Desktop client

To access the page from your Zoom desktop client, go to Settings, click on ‘Profile,’ and hit ‘Edit My Profile.’ Now, follow step 4 below.

On Web portal

Step 1: Go to Zoom’s official website and log in.

Step 2: Click on ‘MY ACCOUNT’.

Step 3: Go to ‘Profile’ and click on the ‘Edit’ hyperlink in the ‘Sign-In Email’ section.

Step 4: Enter the new email ID and click on ‘Save Changes.’

The email ID you entered will now be your new STRW Zoom login ID. So use this email address to authenticate to sterrewachtleiden.zoom.us. You will get several emails from zoom along the way to confirm this change.

University Zoom site

The sign-in web page for the University Zoom system is at: universiteitleiden.zoom.us Select the Sign In box and you are redirected to the SAML Single Sing-On window you know from other Campus tools. Authenticate with your ULCN credentials. Once logged in you end up in the usual Zoom Profile page where you can see that your @strw.leidenuniv.nl account is used as the ZoomID. From this point on all is as you were used to when using your STRW Zoom account.

services/zoom.1611325905.txt.gz · Last modified: 2021/01/22 14:31 by deul