Enterprise E-mail Project
The Enterprise E-mail Project was established, as part of the Unified Communications Program, to address the challenges of the university's current e-mail environment and to deliver a university-wide e-mail and calendaring solution for faculty and staff. The Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) partnered with the Office of Student Life to develop this university-wide system, which will simplify and improve communications, and ultimately support the university's long-term plans for unified communications.
Project Updates and News
February 2012: The OSU Webmail service (also known as SunJava) will be retired March 1 during a maintenance window from 12:01 AM to 3:00 AM. Click here for details regarding the OSU Webmail retirement, and the related maintenance and impacts. In February, the project team transitioned all remaining, valid personal and organizational "@osu.edu" e-mail accounts that had mailboxes on, or forwarded through, OSU Webmail to the University E-mail Service. All scheduled Release 1 unit migrations were completed by the end of January.
December 2011: All migrations of Release 1 units are in progress and nearing completion. Notices about the OSU Webmail service retirement, which is planned for March 1, are being distributed in December and January to faculty and staff in all Releases (1, 2 and 3) who still have an "@osu.edu" account and mailbox on the OSU Webmail service (also known as SunJava). All "@osu.edu" e-mail accounts and mailboxes must be moved from the OSU Webmail service to the University E-mail Service by January 27. Accounts not moved by January 27 will be automatically transitioned to the new service by the OCIO between January 30 and February 29. The project team completed the transition of all Lifetime E-mail Forwarding Service (LEFS) accounts to the University E-mail Service mid-December. Notifications about organizational or non-personal e-mail account migrations were distributed to identified account owners at the end of the month with migrations expected to be completed by February 24.
October 2011: Units scheduled to begin migrating to the University E-mail Service this month include: the Mansfield and OARDC campuses; the University Center for the Advancement of Teaching; the College of Law; the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, and the College of Engineering. In preparation of the OSU Webmail service retirement, the project team also started transitioning over 160,000 "@osu.edu" accounts that deliver (forward) mail to another service provider, but go through the OSU Webmail system. This includes Lifetime E-mail Forwarding Service (LEFS) accounts and accounts of former, recent Ohio State students.
Questions or Comments
If you have questions or comments regarding the Enterprise E-mail Project or University E-mail Service, please use our contact form and one of our project team members will respond to your inquiry.