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, TIME, IUCAT, and many administrative online services
  
  
• 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 related services from the UITS Account Management Service web page 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
  
  
• Authenticating to your Cyrus mail account
  
  
• Dialing into the IU modem pool
  
  
• Authenticating to your accounts on the research systems (Big Red, Libra, Quarry)
  
  
• Accessing web sites such as QuizSite, Post'Em, and IUware Online

Also see:

• How can I find out which UITS computing accounts I have?
• What computing accounts are available at IU?
• At IU, how do I create an ADS Domain account?
• At IU, how can I synchronize my passphrase on most UITS shared central systems?
• At IU, what are Exchange accounts, and how do I obtain one?
• At IU, why is my ADS Domain account locked?
• At IU, may I change my Network ID username on UITS computing accounts?
• What is an IU Network ID?