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Email Service: Students whose accounts are created after January 1, 2024 will be created in Microsoft 365 (please note: this does not include undergraduates who were admitted for the spring 2024 semester; their accounts were created before January 1.) Undergraduate students who are starting their first year at UConn in the Fall 2024 semester will have their email and other communication and collaboration services in Microsoft 365. Storage: You will use Microsoft OneDrive for your file storage and Microsoft Outlook for email. |
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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 Alumni 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 be automatically forwarded to your designated, personal mailbox. UConn will not hold a copy of these emails; emails are simply redirected to your personal mailbox without resting in a UConn hosted mailbox. File Storage: Files stored on your UConn Google Workspace account (e.g., data in Drive, emails in Gmail) need to be exported if you wish to keep your data. The Google Takeout tool lets you download a copy, or you may transfer the data to a personal Google account using the transfer tool. Takeout will generate a The tentative deadline to move your data is was April 30, 2024. Any data that remains in alumni accounts after this date will be subject to deletion, which is not recoverable. |
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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. ITS will not be migrating these emails into your Outlook inbox. File Storage: Work-related files must be stored in Microsoft 365 (OneDrive or SharePoint). 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 Non-work files, including your student data, should be moved it to a different, non-work account (e.g., a non-UConn Google account) with Google Takeout. The Google Takeout tool lets you download a copy, or you may transfer the data to a personal Google account using the transfer tool. Takeout will generate a |
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