Access

Email sre-support@umaryland.edu to request an initial consultation. During the consultation, the SRE support team will review your project needs, discuss secure access, and help your team prepare to use the environment successfully. 

During the consultation, the SRE support team will work with you to: 

• Determine whether SRE Standard or Custom Compute best fits your project.
• Define business processes and project folder requirements.
• Discuss the expected project timeline.
• Identify the project’s key contacts, including the data steward and primary point of contact. 

The information needed to approve access depends on whether your project has an IRB protocol. 

Projects with an IRB protocol: Provide the IRB documentation and/or IRB protocol number requested by the SRE support team. This information will be used to verify who is authorized to access the project data in the SRE. Changes to an IRB protocol do not automatically update SRE project-folder access. Contact sre-support@umaryland.edu when a team member needs to be added or removed so the appropriate access update can be completed. 

Projects without an IRB protocol: If the project does not have an IRB protocol, access to project data requires approval from the project owner and/or the designated data steward. 

All approved members of a research project may use the SRE, including collaborators who are not UMB employees or students. Every SRE user must have an active UMID. 

Non-UMB collaborators typically need a sponsored affiliate account through the UMB Community System before SRE access can be established. Build time for affiliate-account sponsorship into the project timeline. 

When signing into the SRE, it's necessary for SOM researchers to use the umaryland.edu suffix instead of som.umaryland.edu or ihv.umaryland.edu.  For example, if your regular account is jsmith@som.umaryland.edu, it will be jsmith@umaryland.edu.  (Note: The @umaryland.edu credential is not an email address and cannot be used for sending or receiving email.  It is only for logging in to the SRE.)

Once you've accessed the Windows App or https://windows.cloud.microsoft/:

• Click on the Account Manager icon in the upper right-hand corner 
• Select Sign in with a different account
• Enter your umaryland.edu credentials
  • e.g. jsmith@umaryland.edu instead of jsmith@som.umaryland.edu 

For more information related to School of Medicine users in the SRE please visit: The School of Medicine's Secure Research Environment Webpage.