Re: Outsourcing student email

[Ravi Kumar <ravi.kumar () BC EDU>]

We are doing an Exchange migration and we are converting current  email addresses to exchange by adding a '.1' at the 
end of every email address. Hope this helps.

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of STEVE 
MAGRIBY
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 10:08 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Outsourcing student email

We are currently in the planning stages of moving student email from our MS Exchange system to Microsoft's Exchange 
Labs (live@edu).

We know that many other schools have done this to either Microsoft or Google. We are wondering how other schools have 
transitioned current students from one email address to another.

Exchange does not make it easy to forward mail from the old address to the new. If we keep the old address operational 
for several months after creating the new address this will provide time to transition (let the world know that his/her 
email address is changing as of a certain date) but also force the students to check 2 addresses for a while.

Thanks for any ideas you might have.