How does the new Exchange system affect me?
The need to provide a single electronic calendaring system for faculty and staff spurred the initial motivation and effort to move to a common collaboration suite. Because Exchange so tightly integrates e-mail and electronic calendaring, change is on the horizon for many, and the degree of change relates to both e-mail and electronic calendaring. How this affects you (if at all) is largely dependent on the location and the circumstances of your current e-mail services:
- Using Departmental/College-managed Exchange? Unless your department is planning to migrate services to the new central Exchange system, little change will come your way—as of January 1, 2007, you've had the ability to cross-schedule with many more faculty and staff on campus via Exchange.
- Using central Unix (Lamar) mail? Those who are using Lamar e-mail have the option to migrate e-mail to the central Exchange system. Users in this population may request an Exchange e-mail account via the eIdentity website at www.eid.colostate.edu. Documentation and tools are available to aid in the transition from Lamar e-mail to Exchange.
- Using non-central, non-Exchange e-mail? Similar to those using Lamar e-mail, those desiring to migrate their e-mail services to central Exchange may do so, and the same tools and documentation for Lamar users will apply to migrations for this population as well.
