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On 7/21/2011 10:34 AM, Carl Bussema III wrote:
> It also means you can't use your @msu.edu <http://msu.edu> address as
> the "backup address" which you can use to regain access to your
> @gmail.com <http://gmail.com> (or other Google address) account.
>
Ok, this is the thing that I was wondering about specifically. Leo, can
you chip in and confirm that this statement is correct? Because I'm
guessing that this particular situation is probably pretty common (after
all, I'm guessing a fair number of people, especially professors, used
their msu email address as their backup email address for their gmail
account, and some of these people may not *have* another email address
to use to change it to, so I can see this being something of an issue).
> It also means that if you want to access your personal calendar/gmail
> account and your MSU Google docs account, you will need two separate
> browsers (or some tricks like multiple profiles in the same browser, but
> that's still two windows). That's probably going to be the biggest
> nuisance out of all of this for me.
>
I thought I remembered seeing something about a setting you can turn on
to have two google accounts open in different windows of the same
browser? Can't remember it off the top of my head. I have to admit, I
generally resort to two different browsers most of the time I need to do
this.
Gary
> Carl Bussema III
> Information Technologist
> Michigan State University Outreach & Engagement
> Phone: (517) 353-8977 • Fax: (517) 432-9541
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>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Heckaman, Timothy <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
> The Google apps works like this (As far as I know.)
>
> Google gives MSU some special software to run on MSU's servers. It
> is still tied into Googles main database but the files are held on
> MSU servers (I'm assuming here). Google is now only allowing 1 email
> address to be in its database's at any time. So MSU is saying that
> it will hold ALL msu.edu <http://msu.edu> email addresses for their
> version of Google. This means that if I went to Google.com and
> created a personal account and had my personal files, calendaring,
> etc on this account that it will need to be changed because MSU is
> getting all the msu.edu <http://msu.edu> addresses to tie into their
> version of Google.
>
> Basically if someone has a personal Google account on Google.com
> that is using the email address *.msu.edu <http://msu.edu> then they
> will need to change the email address tied to that account to have
> access to it.
>
> Hope that makes more sense. And if I'm wrong I'm sure someone will
> correct me soon enough.
>
> Tim Heckaman
> Computer Technician
> 223 Surplus & Recycling Ctr.
> East Lansing, MI 48824-1238
> MSU Surplus
> 517-355-0364 <tel:517-355-0364>
> www.MSUSurplusStore.com <http://www.MSUSurplusStore.com>
> ________________________________________
> From: Gary Schrock [[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>]
> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 9:59 AM
> To: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [MSUNAG] question about the google apps transition thing
>
> Ok, I've been getting several questions from my users about this, and I
> just want to make sure that what I'm passing on to them is correct. As
> far as I can tell from reading what was mailed out, as long as people
> are not using their msu email address to log into their current google
> account, they should be ok. Any idea if that's correct? I know my
> average users are finding it particularly difficult to interpret what
> was sent out, and quite frankly, I've read the document several times
> and *I'm* not positive I've got it figured out.
>
> Also, any idea when information about this was first sent out? The
> first I heard about it was 3 days ago, but I don't think I remember
> having seen anything sent to me about it, so I don't know if it started
> before that. 3 days in the middle of the summer seems a little on the
> short side to me.
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
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