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As announced, the GWDG’s VPN service ‘AnyConnect’ has now been completely switched off for the vast majority of GÖNET participants.
This affects the servers vpn.gwdg.de, vpn-b.gwdg.de and vpn-c.gwdg.de.
The successor service is eduVPN. This only works with a multifactor login. You can find all information on this as usual at https://gwdg.de/vpn .
The few remaining users of vpn.gwdg.de must now enter a text-based 2nd factor as their ‘2nd password’. This can be entered as on gwdg.de/mfa...
At the moment there is a malfunction in the use of the eduMFA app in some operating systems. We are already working on a solution.
If there are any problems, you will find information on alternatives under the following link:
gwdg.de/mfa
Rocket.Chat: no new sign-ups after June 1st
From June 1st 2025 forward no sign-ups (new accounts) are possible anymore. Existing accounts can continue to use the service beyond that date.
Preview of a new service: CoCalc
A preview of the new, planned service “CoCalc” has been launched and is available for curious users.
Due to the status as preview some limitations apply which need to be recognized and understood, this includes the documentation for the service.
More on this in the announcement:
https://docs.gwdg.de/doku.php?id=en:services:application_services:cocalc:preview
CoCalc is designed for research teams: collaboratively edit LaTeX documents, code in Jupyter...
Discontinuation of Rocket.Chat, further extended End-of-Life phase
With Nov 1st, 2024 the service Rocket.Chat entered its end-of-life phase. Users of Rocket.Chat should act now (see below).
What changes during the end-of-life phase?
GWDG has stopped renewing the licensing of the service. With the expiration of the license some functionality of Rocket.Chat may be limited in the future. The most prominent limitations are:
- no more push notifications to mobile clients
- online presence...
Launch of the Matrix service
After the replacement of RocketChat with Matrix was announced and prepared in the last weeks and months, the Matrix service is now available for all GWDG customers.
Comprehensive information on how to use Matrix can be found at https://docs.chat.academiccloud.de/.
Why Matrix?
The goal of the transition was to continue offering a central, simple, widely accessible, and modern communication tool. Matrix offers various advantages in this regard. For example, the...
Due to the software error, it may currently happen in isolated cases that the login via our SSO infrastructure is not permanently recognised and users are prompted to log in again.
We are working with high priority to resolve the problem and are doing everything we can to restore the stability of the login process as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.
From 13.5.2025, the Cisco AnyConnect service (vpn.gwdg.de,
vpn-b.gwdg.de, vpn-c.gwdg.de) will no longer be available.
The successor service is eduVPN. This only works with a
multifactor login. You can find all information on this at
https://gwdg.de/vpn.
The service will continue to operate for selected special cases; the relevant
administrators have been informed separately.
The write protection to store data in Microsoft OneDrive for students at the University of Göttingen has now been deactivated. However, the permanent limitation of the OneDrive quota by Microsoft does not allow a larger personal OneDrive storage space than 5GB.
For this reason, all students are recommended to use the GWDG’s ownCloud storage service for storing study data.