NCSMFA — One login for all of it
Your NCS account works everywhere on this page. Same username, same password, plus a second factor from your authenticator app. We suggest Cisco Duo but any will work that supports TOTP.
If you’re used to signing in with Microsoft, that’s the part that’s changing. NCSMFA replaces the Microsoft login. If you still land on a Microsoft sign-in page somewhere, you’ve found a leftover from the old system. Tell us where you saw it.
When you sign in to anything below, you’ll be bounced to ncsmfa.northlandcentral.org before you arrive where you were going. That’s us. Normally a login throwing you to an unfamiliar address is worth being suspicious about, which is exactly why it’s worth saying in advance that this one is supposed to happen.
New phone, or lost the device with your authenticator on it? Email IT at support@ncsmx.org or call (210) 904-8005.
NCSMTP — Managed Secure Email
To access your email after the exchange migration please log in with your ncsmfa credentials into the NCSMEP system located at ncsmtp.ncsmx.org
Your email, at lastname first inital IE doej@ncsmx.org. Please note the legacy domains ncsmosiac.com and northlandcentral.org are still active and attached to your email account as aliases allowing end users to send emails via the new domain or either of the old ones, as well as receive emails to any of the email domains to the same account.
Reading mail in a browser needs nothing but the link. Setting it up in a phone or desktop mail app needs actual settings, which live at ncsmtp.ncsmx.org where you can access your account and make app password or change other security settings, For iOS users your account will include a .mobileconfig download that will get pushed to your account. For android users end users will need to generate a imap app password and than use that at login in the client of your choice (we suggest fairemail through f-droid.github)
On desktop you can use the same app password to add NCSMEP accounts to Thunderbird or outlook as well.
NCSMCS — Managed Passwords
A password manager, running on our own hardware. Works in the browser, and through the Bitwarden apps and browser extensions on every platform.
Read this before installing the app. The official Bitwarden apps default to Bitwarden’s own servers, not ours. Before you type your email and password, open the server settings and point the app at ncsmcs.ncsmosiac.com it’s the gear icon in the top corner on iOS, and a self-hosted option on the server dropdown everywhere else. Skip that step and you’ll get “invalid credentials” on a perfectly good password, then assume the server is broken. It isn’t. It just has no idea who you are. Currently NCSMFA is not intergrated with NCSMCS yet, but I will generate account as new users are brought online.
NCSPAS — Centralized Photo Archival
Photo and video library with automatic backup from your phone. Install the Immich app, point it here ncspas.northlandcentral.org , and it uploads in the background the way the commercial ones do. Minus the part where your family album trains somebody’s model. Use your NCSMFA account to login. Shared albums and share links allow end users to distribute photos easily to users outside of the organization as well.
NCSCSP — Managed Storage
File storage and sync. Browser access, desktop sync clients for Windows, Mac and Linux, and mobile apps. Access the nextcloud system at ncscsp.ncsmosiac.com and login with your NCSMFA credentials. Note that the Microsoft calendar has been replaced with the Nextcloud calendar platform and web/mobile app. The calendar function will sync with your email and send email invites to your NCS email platform. Nextcloud also supports messaging and video/voice calls inside and outside of the calendar platform for both internal and external participants. Nextcloud Talk is a direct replacement for MS teams.
NCSIRMS — External Messaging
This system is designed as a direct SMS/MMS replacement. Access your account at irms.ncsmosiac.com or from the zulip app on iOS or android. If you need an external user added an invite link can be made by any user already authenticated or by a NCSIRMS admin.
