The migration to the long-awaited new email system, Microsoft Live@EDU, will begin later this month. The new email platform will provide a robust email and calendar environment for all faculty, staff and students. Later this month ALL student email accounts will be migrated from the current system to Live@EDU. The student email migration will take place Monday, Dec. 19, through Wednesday, Dec. 21. The migration of faculty and staff email accounts will commence in January 2012. Detailed information will be sent prior to the email conversion.

Please be aware of the following information and time lines. 

Student email accounts will be converted to Live@EDU Dec. 19 through Dec. 21.

• RoyalMail will remain available throughout the conversion.
• A student will know his/her email account has been successfully converted when s/he logs in to my.scranton.edu and sees the Email Migration Instructions tab.

Faculty and staff email conversions will commence in January 2012.

• Email account conversions will be processed weekly on Monday and Tuesday evenings.
• Conversions will be scheduled by department.
• Pre-training and post-training sessions will be available.
• RoyalMail will remain available throughout the conversion.

Live@EDU is more than just email. Live@EDU will provide students, faculty, staff, and alumni with a number of productivity and collaboration tools, including 25GB of online file storage, group calendaring, shared online documents using Office Web Apps, blogging tools, and much more. Because Live@EDU is browser-based, all of these services can be accessed from virtually any computer or mobile device with an Internet connection.

Please be advised of the following.

• You will continue to receive email addressed to you at your legacy email addresses (e.g., smithj2@scranton.edu).
• Your login to Live@EDU will be your primary email address in firstname.lastname@scranton.edu format (e.g., john.smith@scranton.edu). Sequence numbers will be added when required (e.g., john.smith3@scranton.edu).
• Your login to all other University resources, including my.scranton.edu, will continue to be your existing user name (e.g., smithj2).
• You must claim your Live@EDU account in order to continue receiving email. Following the conversion, all email addressed to you will be delivered to you at your Live@EDU account.
• You will need to re-subscribe to any listservs or bulletin boards using your primary email address. You will no longer be sending email from your legacy email address.
• CorpTime and Oracle Calendar will continue to be the corporate calendar solution until June 2012. Calendar users can begin using Live@EDU as a calendaring solution once converted to Live@EDU, however, all users will not be converted to Live@EDU until June 2012.

Additional information on the Live@EDU conversion is available at http://www.scranton.edu/it_training.

Questions and concerns about the account claim procedure and the Live@EDU conversion should be directed to the Technology Support Center at ext. 4357 or techsupport@scranton.edu.