TAG just got an update from IT Services about the schedule for faculty email migration to Microsoft Live@Edu. More details to come as we get them, but here’s what we have so far:
- TAG members will be migrated next Monday evening (January 9) along with the CTLE and a few other faculty members who requested early adoption. IR is hoping that converting TAG first will help them better prepare for any issues that other faculty might face during the conversion.
- A second batch of faculty will be migrated next Tuesday evening (January 10). The next groups will migrate on the following Mondays and Tuesdays (January 16 and 17, and January 23 and 24), with the goal of converting all faculty before the start of Spring classes.
- Each individual faculty member will receive an email with detailed instructions at least a week prior to their conversion. If your schedule cannot accommodate your planned conversion date, let IT Services know ASAP.
- Full schedules will be posted showing when each department will be converted. You’ll also be able to search for an individual person’s conversion date.
- Email addresses will be standardized as firstname.lastname@scranton.edu. We’ve shared faculty members’ concerns about that with IT Services. We’ll post more information as we get it.
- IT Services recommends that faculty members set aside time the morning after their conversion to get comfortable with the new interface and to migrate any local email (that is, any Thunderbird messages stored on your desktop rather than on the RoyalMail server).
- Training will be available – look for details in your conversion email.
- Student email accounts were successfully migrated to Live@Edu on December 19.
- Office 2010 upgrades will be pushed out to faculty computers via KBOX.
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