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Username: Please enter your desired username. If externally authenticated, this should be provided to you by your AD administrator.
Employee Number: Please enter your USPS Employee Number (EMPID). This should be provided to you by your school administrator (i.e. treasurer’s office)
Email: Please enter your email address. This email must match one of your email addresses in your USPS employee record (primary, secondary or other) email address. If you are unsure of what email address to use, please contact your school administrator. NOTE: This email address will be used when emailing leave request/timesheet workflow approval notifications to you.
Is Externally Authenticated: Only check this box if your AD administrator has indicated you use an external authentication provider.
Click ‘Create ‘Create User’ to proceed with creating an ESS user account.
A pop-up notification will be displayed if successful
Also, an email will be sent to the email address provided with instructions on how to change the temporary password to a permanent password.
Copy the provided temporary password, click on the secure ‘ESS Application’ link
On the Reset Password window,
paste the temporary password into ‘Old Password’. Enter a New Password using the security requirements listed and re-enter the new password in ‘Verify New Password’ and click ‘Change Password’ to reset your temporary password to a permanent one.
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A pop-up notification will appear stating 'Operation successful. Password changed successfully.”
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NOTE: The default setting in System>Configuration>Forgot Password Configuration to change a password is 5 minutes. If your district would like to extend the password time limit, a user with District Manager or Admin role may increase the ‘minutes until expiration’ setting to give users more time to reset their password. For example, if the ‘Create User’ was completed at 1:00 PM and the district’s ‘forgot password configuration’ is 30 minutes, the user has exactly 30 minutes from the time the ‘ESS Reset Password’ email was sent to change it to a permanent password
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