Carleton is moving the existing Exchange Email for faculty and staff service onto Microsoft’s Office 365 Cloud.
Benefits: This upgrade will result in essentially unlimited storage (50GB), better protection from SPAM and malware, and support for the latest mobile devices.
When: The upgrade is occurring over the summer, faculty by faculty and department by department. You will be informed prior to your upgrade.
Impact: For most faculty and staff, the impact will be minimal. Carry on sending and receiving email. When your mailbox is upgraded, you will see a pop-up in your PC Outlook requesting you restart Outlook. Your upgrade will then be complete.
For those faculty and staff members who also access their email from a smartphone or Mac, updated settings are required. These new device settings are documented here, the new web interface, available upon upgrade is here and the Service Desk will be ready to assist you on the day of your upgrade.
Privacy: As part of the planning process, Carleton conducted an impact assessment in order to understand and manage the privacy issues. This email service is compliant with Canadian federal and provincial privacy legislation. Microsoft has also announced they will be opening data centres in Toronto and Quebec City in 2016 to host their Canadian customers’ email: reimagine.microsoft.ca.
If you wish to remain on the legacy Exchange email system, please indicate so by emailing legacy-exchange@carleton.ca.
For more information and support, contact its.service.desk@carleton.ca, x3700.