Uninet Year 2000 Migration

The platform on which the Uninet service is currently delivered is not year 2000 compliant and will be phased out by the end of November.  A new system has already been developed and all existing customers are being migrated to this new system with no loss of connectivity or disruption to the service provided the following changes are made. The deadline for these changes are midnight November 30 1999.

All current users of this service will simply need to change the login name in two places from the existing format ( uni123ab ) to {nodename}.uninet.co.uk

The nodename is the portion of the e-mail address directly after the @ sign, for example ‘someuser@somecompany.uninet.co.uk’.

In order to migrate to the new platform please follow the instructions below.

 

Step 1

Changing the account name in outlook express.

Click tools followed by accounts and the following should be displayed

Step 2

Highlight the Uninet account and click properties, the following display should appear

This screen shows your nodename ( in this example it is somecompany )

Step 3

Click the servers tab and the following should appear

This screen shows the account name which you use to log in to the current Uninet system.  In this example it is uni123ab.  This needs to be changed to nodename.uninet.co.uk as shown below in our example somecompany.bchip.com.  Click ok to save these changes.

Step 4.

Changing the account name in the dial up networking connection.

The account name needs to be changed in the dial up networking connection.  This should be changed as before  from the uni123 to somecompany.uninet.co.uk.  Below are two screen shots showing before and after. 

N.B. The change will not be saved until you connect to the service.

Should you have any difficulties with the migration of your account on to the new platform please contact our Technical Support line on : 01132320801 and quote ref. Number ‘bchuni00’. Customers not quoting this number will be referred to our normal technical support line of ‘09065588800’ charged at £1 a min with a maximum call length of 25 mins.

BlueChip Internet apologises for any inconvenience caused.