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As part of Information Technology’s efforts to keep current with industry trends and provide enhanced services, IT is working on a project to migrate all WPUNJ employee email accounts from on-campus email servers to Microsoft cloud-based servers. This project is expected to be completed prior to the Fall 2018 semester.
As part of Information Technology’s efforts to keep current with industry trends and provide enhanced services, IT is working on a project to migrate all WPUNJ employee email accounts from on-campus email servers to Microsoft cloud-based servers. This project is expected to be completed prior to the Fall 2018 semester.


All employees will be contacted prior to their account's migration. Account migrations will take place during evening hours, all mailbox contents and settings will be preserved.
Information Technology will be contacting all employees and departments prior to their accounts' migration. Migrations be scheduled during evening hours, and all mailbox contents and settings will be preserved.


==Using the Microsoft Outlook desktop application==
==Using the Microsoft Outlook desktop application==
The Microsoft Outlook desktop application installed on university computers should automatically pick up the new server settings. At the end of the migration, a dialog box will appear in Outlook (if currently running) requiring the client to be restarted. One thing to expect is that the actions performed in the Outlook application will be slower than before, as the email accounts will now be hosted on off-campus servers.
The Microsoft Outlook desktop application installed on university computers should automatically pick up the new server settings. If Outlook is in use during the migration, at the end of the migration, a dialog box will appear requiring that Outlook be restarted.  


Please note: Outlook for Mac users may need to ensure that their accounts are set to use their full email address (username@wpunj.edu) for the Username field.
Please note: as the email accounts will now be hosted on off-campus servers, the actions performed in the Outlook application will be slower than when previously hosted on on-campus servers.
 
==Microsoft Outlook Desktop application for Macs==
Outlook for Mac users may need to ensure that their accounts are set to use their full email address (username@wpunj.edu) for the Username field.


==Outlook Web Access (OWA)==
==Outlook Web Access (OWA)==

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