BCS/CVS migration to Office 365

Per a directive from University administration, all e-mail users of the BCS/CVS mail system will be migrating to the Microsoft Office365 cloud-based e-mail environment. Users will initially be allowed to pick the day/time for their migration...those who do not specify a day/time will eventually have their migrations scheduled by Chris.

The process for migrating a BCS/CVS e-mail account to O365 is quite similar to the process we went through when we migrated to the Axigen system:

At a predetermined day and time, several things will happen simultaneously:

Note that the process of migrating your data to O365 may take a considerable amount of time...more than a day for the larger IMAP users.

Once the migration process begins, you can add your O365 account to your e-mail client(s) and start using O365.

Instructions for adding an O365 account to Thunderbird/iPhone/K-9Mail using the IMAP protocol are here: O365Imap

Instructions for adding an O365 account to Thunderbird using the POP protocol are here: O365Pop

The end result of this migration is:

- The e-mail account you will use from then on is your O365 account (<your_netID>@ur.rochester.edu)

- E-mail being sent to your O365 account will be filtered through UR's ProofPoint antispam/virus system before being delivered to your O365 account

- E-mail being sent to your old BCS/CVS addresses will continue to be filtered by our Barracuda antispam/virus system before being automatically forwarded to your O365 account

- the webmail interface you use to access your O365 account is the Outlook Web Access interface: http://owa.ur.rochester.edu/

- departmental mailing lists will still originate from the BCS/CVS e-mail domains...their addresses are NOT changing

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