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It also means you can't use your @msu.edu address as the "backup address" which you can use to regain access to your @gmail.com (or other Google address) account. 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. Carl Bussema III Information Technologist Michigan State University Outreach & Engagement Phone: (517) 353-8977 • Fax: (517) 432-9541 [log in to unmask] On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Heckaman, Timothy <[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.eduemail 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 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 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 > www.MSUSurplusStore.com > ________________________________________ > From: Gary Schrock [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 9:59 AM > To: [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 >