The student email service is being made available on the cloud, using Microsoft Office 365.

Benefits: This service provided 25GB of space and Office 365 provides web-based Office applications (Word, Excel, etc); file storage/sharing and communication tools for instant messaging, etc. In the first phase we are concentrating on the email part of the project.

Who is affected? All undergraduate students and postgraduate taught students have access to email in the cloud. Postgraduate Research students, while not being moved to the service at this stage, will benefit through the storage capacity freed up in-house. This is being redistributed to allow a significant increase for email storage (see below).  Postgraduate students will use the latest version of Outlook Web Access (2010) and this is almost indistinguishable from Outlook in the cloud.

To connect your mobile device to your email account please go to http://go.qub.ac.uk/wireless

Last Update (22  February 2013):

• All undergraduate students and taught postgraduates have access to email in the cloud. If you are an undergraduate or a taught postgraduate and do not have access to the latest version of Outlook Web Access please contact the Computer Help Desk, advisory@qub.ac.uk
• We are now proceeding to allocate more space to postgraduate research students, initially each PGR will have a quota of 200 Mb.
• Your email address and credentials are the same in the new service
• All of your existing emails will be transferred by us to the new service – you don’t have to do anything
• The new service is intuitive to use, but there is documentation you may wish to use: Reference Guide - new student email service [17-page PDF] or points for returning students [2-page PDF]
• We expect that any service interruption to you will be limited to a few minutes as your mailbox is actually on the move to the cloud storage. If you attempt to use the service during that short period, please simply wait a few minutes and try again.
• Please DO NOT use the feature to automatically forward your messages to another Email account, this will fail causing confusion and mis-communications.