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Office 365 Update

Posted on by Cathy Rodriguez

By Ken Stafford, CIO

After seven months of planning and testing, we have the entire campus of 57,000 accounts moved to Office 365 for email and calendaring service. Over the weekend Information Technology Services, migrated the final 17,000 student accounts and more than 6,100 faculty and staff email and calendar accounts.

The majority of questions to the IT Help Desk and our Client Services teams have been about configuring mobile devices, downloading the Outlook Client, and assisting users with sharing calendars and folders. Search the knowledge base for articles on these topics and more. Continue reading “Office 365 Update” →

Learn Office 365: Top resources to browse over winter break

Posted on by Betsy Edwards

by Information Technology Services

Over the holiday break, K-Staters who want a jumpstart on learning Office 365 email and calendaring should check out these top resources created by Information Technology Services.

  1. Explore more than 100 K-State articles on how to use  Office 365: 
  2. Prior to the migration Jan. 6, 2014, do the steps in the Office 365 pre-migration checklist.
  3. Discuss Office 365 socially with other K-Staters. Join K-State’s Office 365 Migration group on Yammer. It’s a social venue (similar to Facebook) specifically for those with  @ksu.edu addresses.  Create an @ksu.edu account first. See K-State’s Getting Started with Yammer resource.
  4. Bookmark and visit K-State’s Office 365 website at k-state.edu/its/office365.

Learn Office 365: Participate in trivia

Posted on by Cathy Rodriguez

by Information Technology Services

Are you ready for the transition to Office 365? Information Technology Services will conduct Office 365 trivia during the two Zoom Q&A sessions this week.

Continue reading “Learn Office 365: Participate in trivia” →

Reminder: Email and calendar accounts moving Jan. 6 from Zimbra to Office 365

Posted on by Betsy Edwards

To: K-State Faculty,  Staff and Student Employees

From: IT Help Desk

This is a reminder that your email and calendar account will be moving from Zimbra to Office 365 on Jan. 6, 2014. You will sign in as usual at webmail.k-state.edu. Be sure to perform the tasks in the pre-migration checklist prior to the migration at k-state.edu/its/office365/pre-migration.  Continue reading “Reminder: Email and calendar accounts moving Jan. 6 from Zimbra to Office 365” →

Faculty, staff and student employees moving to Office 365 Jan. 6, 2014

Posted on by Betsy Edwards

by Information Technology Services

On Jan. 6, 2014, faculty, staff and student employees will be moved to Office 365, K-State’s new email and calendaring system. K-Staters accessing email and calendaring via the web-based version will sign in as usual at webmail.k-state.edu. Those using a client (Outlook, Apple Mail, iCal) to access their email and calendar will need to configure the client after the migration. Continue reading “Faculty, staff and student employees moving to Office 365 Jan. 6, 2014” →

Office 365: Email messages will not migrate if file attachment is 25MB or larger

Posted on by Cathy Rodriguez

By Information Technology Services

In the upcoming migration from Zimbra to Office 365, email messages with attachments greater than 25MB will not migrate. Both the email content as well as the attachment will not be moved to Office 365.

For emails that have attachments larger than 25MB, it is recommended that you download any attachments to your computer that you want to keep, as they will not migrate to Office 365. See the Knowledge Base article How to identify and download mail attachments larger than 25MB.

 

Learn Office 365: Training and question-answer sessions scheduled

Posted on by Cathy Rodriguez

by Information Technology Services

Information Technology Services will continue offering “Introduction to Office 365″ sessions throughout December. Introductory sessions will be offered in the Hale Library Hemisphere Room and the K-State Student Union Little Theatre. There will also be opportunities to join Q&A sessions via Zoom. No registration is required for any of these sessions. Continue reading “Learn Office 365: Training and question-answer sessions scheduled” →

Office 365: Introductory videos now available

Posted on by Betsy Edwards

On Jan. 6, 2014, faculty/staff and student employees will be moved to Office 365, K-State’s new email and calendaring system. In addition to face-to-face and online training sessions, two videos have been created for those who cannot attend one of the sessions or need a refresher on using Office 365.  Continue reading “Office 365: Introductory videos now available” →

Learn Office 365: Customizing the Outlook Web App

Posted on by Sarah Silva

by Information Technology Services

You can customize the way the Outlook Web App looks and how messages are displayed by applying themes and editing the display settings.

Themes
The Outlook Web App comes with a number of themes for changing its look and feel.



Continue reading “Learn Office 365: Customizing the Outlook Web App” →

Learn Office 365: Getting started with email

Posted on by Cathy Rodriguez

by Information Technology Services

Quick start guide email web app

The campus is in the process of migrating to Office 365. To begin learning about the email component of Office 365, check out the following tutorials and reference guides:

Another way to learn about Office 365 is the Office 365 Migration Yammer group. This online chat allows users to ask questions and share their thoughts.  See Getting Started with Yammer for K-Staters.

More information about the move to Office 365 is available from http://www.ksu.edu/its/office365 .