Moving E-mail to the Cloud
As part of a service improvement project for email, IS&T will be migrating Exchange accounts from on campus servers up to Microsoft’s Office 365 Exchange cloud service. There are many benefits to the new Office 365 service, including the following:
•Access to online versions of the Microsoft Office suite applications (Word, Excel, Outlook)
•1 Terabyte of storage included with Microsoft One Drive
•A 50 GB email quota
The transition from the current email server to the Microsoft 365 services will be starting the end of February. We will be reaching out to people on an individual basis before the migration, which should be a relatively painless process. There are a few circumstances that will require reconfiguration of email clients, and we will have staff available the morning after the scheduled transition to assist with fixing those settings. From testing and the migrations we have already performed, Outlook and iOS devices have updated their settings automatically and required few manual changes.
There is additional information about this migration on this page on the BU Tech Web website: http://www.bu.edu/tech/services/comm/email/exchange/office365/
The URL for BU’s Webmail will also be changing post-migration, the new site is located here: http://outlook.office365.com/
Please let us know if you have any questions.