Oversight of the University's Affiliate processes. Affiliates are non-employee, non-student persons who require MSU physical access and/or login access to MSU information services. Team facilitates Vice Provost's authorization of new "Recognized Affiliate" groups, creates all affiliate and FPID records (approx. 3000 annually), troubleshoots all affiliate login issues, and produces affiliate ID cards.
Provides centralized services that allow integrated applications to authenticate end-users consistent with university policies and industry best-practices balanced with ease-of-use for those end-users.
The MSU proxy server (EZproxy) provides authentication and access to electronic resources and databases which are restricted from off-campus access.
Spartan Card provisioning and troubleshooting for MSU students, faculty, staff, and affiliated persons is handled by the ID Office. A Spartan Card can be used for door and parking access, meal plans, library borrowing, recreational sports facilities access and athletic ticketing. Spartan Card acquisition and usage details can be found at idoffice.msu.edu.
MSU Guest Account (formerly Community ID) grants limited access to web-based MSU services for users who are not affiliated with MSU directly. Users typically include members of the general public who sign up for non-credit courses, distance learners, and parents, guardians, and others invited by a student to access their information (such as MSU financial systems). Students enrolled in credit classes should log in to MSU resources using their NetID and should not register for a Guest Account.
MSU NetIDs are assigned to all current faculty, staff, students and retirees. A NetID is a unique alphanumeric identifier auto-generated from the user's name.
Your NetID is your personal identifier at MSU and serves as your login to many university computing and networking services. Your NetID also determines your MSU email address which is netid@msu.edu (e.g. the NetID msuspartan would have the email address msuspartan@msu.edu).