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OE-A Member Area

my.OE-A

my.OE-A is the exclusive members’ area of the OE-A with valuable contents and downloads such as

Minutes of the OE-A Meetings

Presentations of OE-A Seminars at Trade Shows and Conferences

Presentations and Streamings of our OE-A Web-Seminars

Documents of our OE-A Working Groups

OE-A Roadmap White Paper

How do I get access to my.OE-A?

  1. Register/Login at https://vdma.org
    Please use your company e-mail address (no private e-mail address possible)
  2. Wait for the next day until your data is synchronized and imported into all systems
  3. Copy the following link to your internet browser:
    https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3alCrpq0PM7T7I7SpR4ggy4KY5_OkcHtbVtMxapi6jbNo1%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=c682c766-aecd-4f32-b53d-530dabc9cf1a&tenantId=20d62e7b-4420-48d0-ba3f-70cadc237837
  4. Cancel opening TEAMS in the desktop app, Open TEAMS in the web app instead

Access is exclusively for OE-A members.

You do not know if your company is already a member? Take a look at our memberlist.
Your company is not a member, yet? Please find information on OE-A membership here.

If you need help logging in, please see the member’s guide/manual with a step-by-step instruction and screenshots below for download or contact daria.knoth@oe-a.org:

FAQ

Some Frequently Asked Questions are answered for you here.

Why do I have to register at myVDMA to get access to my.OE-A?

Please note that you have to login to my.VDMA only the first time accessing my.OE-A. Its mandatory to login to my.VDMA to create a connection to the VDMA tenant, where the information of my.OE-A is stored. When the connection to my.VDMA has been successfully established, you can access my.OE-A simply by opening this link.

What is a Microsoft Office 365 account and how do I find out if I have one?

Your Microsoft account is a combination of your email address (=username) and the password you use to log in to services such as OneDrive, Outlook or MS TEAMS. If you use any of these services in your company, you already have a Microsoft account.

How to log in my.VDMA with your corporate Microsoft account?

To log in my.VDMA, you usually use the same login data that you use for your existing company Microsoft account. However, the username of your Microsoft account may be different from your company email, e.g. it may consist of a combination of your staff number and company domain (1234@JaneDoe.com).

Please do not use a general company address such as info@companyxy.com for your registration, but your personal email address linked to a Microsoft account. 

For more information on your Microsoft Account login please see the next question “How to get your username for the Office 365 account?”

How to get your username for the Office 365 account?

If you have forgotten your Microsoft account username (email address) or have signed in and received the error message “The Microsoft account does not exist”, please follow the steps below in this order to find your username:

Windows 10 (PC or laptop)
Select Start > Settings > Accounts. Under Email and App Accounts, the usernames associated with your device are displayed.

Office apps
Microsoft 365 or Office 2016 or newer: Open an Office app, such as Word or Excel. Select File > Account. You can find your userename/e-mail-address under the product information.

My company does not use Microsoft Office 365. How can I still access myOE-A?

If you already have a myVDMA account
Please write an e-mail to daria.knoth@oe-a.org and we will create a Microsoft Office account for you at the VDMA cloud. Please note, that this may take some processing time. You will receive a notification by e-mail with your access data as soon as the account is created.

Example of your username: Jane.Doe_company.com@vdma.cloud
The password is an initial password which should be changed with your first login.

If you do not have a my.VDMA account, yet:
Please go briefly through our registration process at https://vdma.org/registration to create an account.

Why does VDMA/OE-A use a Microsoft service as a basis for its member area?

Since the GDPR, stricter conditions and obligations for the processing of personal data came into force. To ensure legally compliant processing of your personal data, VDMA/OE-A decided to use the Microsoft services to handle access to its member areas.  Hence, VDMA/OE-A chose a system that complies with the current security guidelines and legal requirements.

In addition, using Microsoft Teams gives the opportunity to implement new collaboration possibilities.

Who has access to my data?

Your registration is checked in your company network via a service from Microsoft. The VDMA/OE-A has no access to this and thus no access to your data.

Error message “Account locked”.

Please contact your internal IT department with this error message. VDMA/OE-A does not have access to the Microsoft accounts of its members.
If you use a vdma.cloud account please write an e-mail to daria.knoth@oe-a.org.

Error message “User does not exist in VDMA e.V. tenant”

This error message may have various causes. Please send a screenshot of the error message to daria.knoth@oe-a.org.

Error message “Hmmm….can’t find that team”

This error message is caused by a bug in reading the VDMA tenant address, and occurs usually when also using MS TEAMS within your company. Please open my.OE-A in the web app instead of the desktop app.

Error message “You need permission to access the team”

This error message usually comes up if you have just registered at my.VDMA and your data has not been processed in the background yet. Please try to access the my.OE-A TEAMS channel at a later time. If you still receive the error message, please contact daria.knoth@oe-a.org.    

Error message “Unable to process SAML process”

This error message may have various causes. Please send a screenshot of the error message to daria.knoth@oe-a.org.      

Error message “ User account does not exist in tenant “VDMA e.V.” and cannot attend the application”

 This error message comes up if you have not yet created an account at my.VDMA. Please follow the steps above in the section “How do I get access to my.OE-A?” or download the step-by-step instruction “Members-Guide-to-myOE-A-registration” above. 

I cannot reset my Microsoft Office password

Please contact your internal IT department with this error message. VDMA/OE-A does not have access to the Microsoft accounts of its members.
If you use a vdma.cloud account please write an e-mail to daria.knoth@oe-a.org.

I have a Microsoft Office account at the VDMA cloud but cannot change the initial password

Sometimes Microsoft will not accept your password even if you have followed the password policies. In this case, your password may be on a global list of blocked passwords. Solution: Assign a password until it is accepted. Please note, that VDMA has no influence on password assignment. These are security guidelines from Microsoft.

Password policies:

The following Azure AD password policy requirements apply to all passwords created or changed for login to myVDMA:

PropertyRequirements
Permitted CharaktersUpper case letters (A-Z)
Lower case letters (a-z)
Numbers (0 to 9)
Special characters:
– @ # $ % ^ & * – _ ! + = [ ] { } | \ : ‘ , . ? / ` ~ ” ( ) ; <>
– Space
Illegal charactersUnicode characters
Password lengthPasswords must contain
Minimum 8 characters
Maximum 256 characters
Keyword complexityPasswords must contain three of the following four elements:
Capital letters
Lower case letters
Numbers
Special characters
Note: No password complexity check is required for Education clients.
Password not used recentlyWhen a user changes or resets their password, the new password must not be the same as the current or recently used password.
Password is not locked by Microsoft Azure AD password protectionThe password must not be included in the global list of locked passwords for Azure AD password protection or in the customisable list of locked passwords specific to your organisation.


Daria Knoth

Assistant

Daria Knoth

Assistant

OE-A Meetings, Conferences

+49 69 6603 1881
daria.knoth@oe-a.org