About
Office 365 (Plan A2) is the educational offering of Exchange Online and a number of other services. Tufts has entered into an agreement with Microsoft to host Student mail in their cloud hosted environment. Members
Frequently Asked Questions
Why a cloud hosted email solution?
Cloud hosted services (in general) is an area that Tufts continues to consider. We are specifically interested in cloud hosted email as it provides some advantages to the services that Tufts provides locally (Larger mailbox quotas, integration
Who will be moved to the cloud?
With the initial service offering TTS is only planning to transition students to the cloud. We are adopting an admissions-based migration path which means only students new to the university will have their accounts provisioned in the cloud as opposed to onsite.
Students joining the university should be directed to https://tuftstools.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/student to create their Tufts Username and Tufts Password
What about existing students, will they be migrated to the cloud?
At this juncture TTS is only planning to onboard incoming students that are new to the university into Office 365. Seniors that are joining a graduate program, or staff that transition to students, etc. are not expected to make a switch. We're comfortable with the knowledge that both our On Premise Exchange 2010 and Cloud Hosted Office 365 environments offer a robust communication platform and we would prefer not to disrupt our supported students by migrating them at this time.
What is included in Office 365 "Plan A2?"
This licensing breakdown helps describe the available possibilities.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/academic/office-365-academic-FX103045755.aspx
It is important to note that although O365 includes Lync and Sharepoint Online solutions, ESS is still currently still evaluating them amongst other services and does not plan to make them immediately available with this service offering.
How can I tell if my Tufts mailbox is in the cloud?
Please visit https://exchange.tufts.edu and sign in using your Tufts Username and Tufts Password. Accounts that actually exist in the cloud will be prompted to move to the cloud to authenticate instead
