Loudoun Faculty / Staff Support

  Logon

All Faculty / Staff workstations, at all five campuses, require you to logon to the Faculty / Staff domain in order to access your mail, printing privileges, and software rights.  To logon, you must have NVCC  username, password & domain..    

  UserName [New naming convention on hold]

UserName is your first initial plus lastname, up to a total of 12 characters, no spaces or capitalization.  For example, if your name is 'James McGuire', your Default username would be 'jmcguire'.    

Exceptions:  If a second Faculty / Staff name is  'Joyce McGuire', this would result in the same username as above, so the second initial of the first name is also used.  UserName would be 'jomcguire'.  Any ties after that, numerals will be added to the end of the username. For example, 'jomcguire1, jomcguire2'.

   Password

Contact IT staff for your initial password. 703-450-2660.

Sometime during the semester, you will logon to the domain and be required to change this initial password to a more secure, private password.   It must be at least eight characters, using lowercase, at least one uppercase, and at least one number.    

   Domain

Faculty / Staff  Domain is "nvcc".  So the third line of your logon, after you enter your username and password, should be "nvcc".  Sometimes the person before you could have inadvertently typed in the wrong domain.  So you should always check this entry.  It will usually be already entered for you.    

   Email

Your Email address is your username@nvcc.edu  So if your name if Joyce McGuire, your username would be jmcguire and your email address would be "jmcguire@nvcc.edu"      Students cannot create Personal Address Books.  This is a local file and since students log on to many different computers, they need to have some way for the address book to follow them around.   Please see info on Outlook Address Book for more info on this.  

   Home Pages

Every faculty / staff  has a 3mb home page space.  You can create and save your personal home pages in this space.  If your name is Joyce McGuire, then the WWW address of your home page is www.nvcc.edu/home/jmcguire     

   FTP   web pages

Complete instructions on how to use FTP to transfer files to your web server can be found at FTP.  This is a very easy way if you do not have Publishing Wizard on your computer.