All members of the Emmanuel College community possess a Microsoft Active Directory account to access all required services. Microsoft's Active Directory is a centralized directory service that enables Information Technology to plan and automate network management, shared data and other distributed resources. It also provides measures for securing shared permissions and access across all major systems.

Faculty, students and staff use their accounts daily from MySaints Portal and e-mail authentication to Sharepoint services to EC Learn, EC Print and Wireless Internet authentication.