Hi everyone,

I’m trying to understand the implications of this announcement. Right now, we are running our own Exchange server in the rcpd.msu.edu domain. For years, we have forwarded all messages from msu.edu to corresponding rcpd.msu.edu addresses, but set our primary reply addresses to msu.edu. Questions:

1.       Once this change takes effect, what will happen to messages sent to msu.edu? I assume mail.msu.edu will still honor forwarding preferences?

2.       If so, what’s the downside for us if we leave things as they currently are?

3.       If we do make this change now, and then in a few months, or within a year or two, we transition to Office 365, will we need to change back to using our msu.edu addresses as primary?

4.       What if, instead of fiddling with our primary reply to addresses on our own Exchange server, we decide to migrate to campus Exchange right now? Will that allow us to continue using msu.edu as our primary addresses?

Thanks,

 

Al Puzzuoli

Information Technologist

Michigan State University,

Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities,  120 Bessey Hall East Lansing, MI  48824-1033

517-884-1915

http://www.rcpd.msu.edu

 

 

 

On August 1, 2015, we will be implementing an Exchange Autodiscover record for the msu.edu domain in preparation of migrating undergraduate students email to Office 365. If you have an email server and your users are configured to send email as “[log in to unmask]” you will need to change those users to your sub-domain “[log in to unmask]” on or before July 31, 2015.

 

Action Needed by July 31

Change all users configured to send email as [log in to unmask] (e.g., [log in to unmask] where “Sparty” is the NetID) to your subdomain [log in to unmask] (e.g., [log in to unmask] where “hc” is the subdomain) as their primary email address and reply to address.

 

Background

Michigan State is transitioning student email to Microsoft Office 365 beginning with new undergraduate students that start MSU in June 2015. Returning undergraduate students (those that began with MSU prior to June) will transition in the fall of 2015. Migrating email to Office 365 relies on an Exchange Autodiscover record to help configure, connect, and update Exchange users, related services, and applications.

 

Additional Information

Exchange Autodiscover service information: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj900169%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx

Transition plans for Office 365: https://tech.msu.edu/office365/

 

Please contact the MSU IT Service Desk at (517) 432-6200 or [log in to unmask] with questions or to request assistance.

 

The date of August 1 may need to be accelerated should we learn that it will affect undergraduate student email migrations planned for the fall so we would appreciate your quick response to this request. We will communicate via this email distribution list should the date need to be change.

 

MSU IT Service Desk (formerly IT Services Support Desk)

Michigan State University

(517) 432-6200

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