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titleFaculty and Staff

Email Service: Your email service is not affected. You will continue to use Outlook.

File Storage: Work-related files must be stored in Microsoft 365 (OneDrive or SharePoint). If you have files stored in Google Workspace, ITS will migrate files to OneDrive in Microsoft 365 in the spring/summer of 2024. Most files will migrate from Google Drive to OneDrive and the file extension will change so that you can use the files in Microsoft (For example, a .gdoc will convert to the Word format, .docx).

Files that are stored in services outside of your Drive storage, like Google Photos, will not migrate and some features, such as links and sharing permissions, will not persist. View the suggested workarounds.

For more information about the transition for faculty, visit Google to 365 - Faculty

You may want to create a record of the files that have been shared with you in Google. To do so, please follow this guide: Create Record of Files Shared with me in Google

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titleAlumni

Email service: UConn will no longer be able to host a mailbox for former students. As an alumnus, you may choose to keep your UConn email address by opting into the forwarding service. This service lets you point your University of Connecticut email address to a personal, non-UConn email account.  Email sent to your University of Connecticut address will then be automatically forwarded to your designated mailbox.

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The Alumni Forwarding Service will be available on January 31, 2024.

File Storage: Files stored on your UConn Google Workspace account (e.g., data in Drive, emails in Gmail) need to be moved if you wish to keep your data.  The Google Takeout tool lets you download a copy. Takeout will generate a .zip file that you can move to a personal storage solution (e.g., a local disk or your non-UConn Google account).  The tentative deadline to move your data is April 30, 2024.  Any data that remains in alumni accounts after this date will be subject to deletion.

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titleEmployees who were UConn students

Email Service: As an employee, you have your email in Outlook but you also have a Google Workspace, including Gmail, account. Although your email is now delivered to your Outlook inbox, your UConn Gmail may contain the messages you received and sent as a student. If you wish to keep these older messages, you should use the Google Takeout tool to download a copy.

File Storage: Work-related files must be stored in Microsoft 365 (OneDrive or SharePoint). If you have work-related files stored on Google Drive, ITS will migrate files to OneDrive in Microsoft 365 in the spring/summer of 2024. Most files will migrate from Google Drive to OneDrive and the file extension will change so that you can use the files in Microsoft (For example, a .gdoc will convert to the Word format, .docx).

You may want to create a record of the files that have been shared with you in Google. To do so, please follow this guide: Create Record of Files Shared with me in Google

For non-work files, including your student data, you should move it to a different, non-work account (e.g., a non-UConn Google account) with Google Takeout.

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