Faculty/Staff Email Migration Coming Soon and What It Means for You

Email and calendaring services for faculty and staff members will be migrated from the on-campus Exchange service to the Microsoft Office 365 cloud.

From Jan. 3 to 10, all faculty and staff Exchange mailboxes (including secondary accounts) will be migrated to the cloud. As each person is migrated, they will experience a 30-minute interruption in service. Once migrated, users will need to restart Outlook or other email applications. Some will be required to make slight changes to email apps on mobile devices.

The migration brings several improvements, including a 50 GB email quota (currently 4 GB), freeing up university resources, and making it easier to conduct business and collaborate with students. The Office 365 cloud environment will also provide a more user-friendly web-based email service at outlook.office.com, which will replace the current Outlook Web App service at exchange.uark.edu.

Faculty and staff are advised to keep an eye out for emails from IT Services explaining what to expect with the migration.

The Office 365 cloud migration is part of the Achieve IT: Collaborate Everywhere project, which brought free Microsoft Office services to students earlier this year. The goal of Collaborate Everywhere is to provide easy-to-use, modern services across campus to support academic success and effective business processes.

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