Please read this entire message carefully so you are prepared for this move.

Per University CIO Gordon Wishon's email from Tuesday 10/28, ND is in the process of transitioning the legacy enterprise eMail and Calendaring systems to Microsoft Exchange.

For all Mendoza College of Business users, your eMail transition will take place between Wednesday November 5^th and Friday November 7^th.  Please keep in mind, Corporatetime Calendar WILL NOT be converted at this time.  Please continue to use Corporatetime as before.

Pre-Migration Phase:

1.      You will be receiving an Exchange Pre-Migration Message directly from OIT before the conversion.

2.      Please DO NOT access your eMail ON or OFF campus during the conversion time period.  For your specific conversion schedule please visit: http://mcobit.business.nd.edu/kb/kb.cfm?Action=NEWQuestion&gid=1586

a.       Group 1: Wednesday November 5^th 8:00pm to Thursday November 6^th  8:00am.

b.      Group 2: Thursday November 6^th 8:00pm to Friday November 7^th  8:00am.

3.      Major features that will continue to work and with improvements:

·        A new Exchange mailbox will be created for you automatically

·        Your current ND email address will continue to work.  NO incoming emails will be lost during the conversion period.

·        Outlook, Entourage, and Mac Mail will all work the way it has in the past.  Please contact MCoB IT Help Desk for further assistance if you are using any other clients.

·        A new and faster webmail at https://owa.nd.edu/  (Please DO NOT use WEBMAIL.ND.EDU after the conversion!)

·        Your default eMail quota will be increased from 500MB to 1GB.

4.      Things that WILL NOT work:

·        Any existing email forwarding needs to be reconfigured.  Please send us the following information:

o   Your NetID, ND email address, and forwarding email address.

·        Current Vacation Auto-Reply/Auto-Responses will have to be reconfigured.  Please visit http://oit.nd.edu/exchange/autoreply.shtml for instructions after the conversion is completed.

·        Any existing eMail filters have to be re-created after the conversion is completed.

·        Thunderbird eMail users, please visit http://oit.nd.edu/exchange/tbird_imap.shtml for instructions on how to reconfigure your email client after the conversion is completed.

Post-Migration Phase:

·        You will be receiving an Exchange Post-Migration Message directly from OIT after your conversion is completed.

·        Please Re-Start your computer after the conversion is completed.

·        Log in to the new Exchange Webmail at: https://owa.nd.edu/ and test your email.

·        Please DO NOT use WEBMAIL.ND.EDU after the conversion!

·        When you launch Outlook for the 1st time after the conversion, it may take a little longer to display your email messages depending on the size of your mail boxes.

·         For any other questions, please contact Mendoza IT help desk at 631-7896 or eMail cobahelp@nd.edu.

·         Mendoza IT and University OIT will be here to assist you throughout the entire process.

·        Please visit: http://oit.nd.edu/exchange/ for more information.