Microsoft completed the upgrade of the hosted student email, huskers.unl.edu, on July 27. Here are a few facts about the upgrade and UNL student's new Office 365 accounts:
All students now have two accounts:
*An Office 365 email account, which they get to keep for life at https://huskers.unl.edu The completed upgrade is enabling Microsoft to add the full version of Outlook online environment (including Lync, SharePoint and WebApps) to their huskers.unl.edu account this fall.
* A personal Microsoft account that is no longer managed by UNL and retains access to existing SkyDrive files, Messenger contacts, and other Microsoft services. Microsoft SkyDrive and Messenger: https://skydrive.live.com/.
* The username will stay the same for both services. The password will remain the same until a user decides to change one of them. Then the Microsoft password and Office 365 password will be different.
Huskers.unl.edu Upgrade stats:
* Approximately 30,000 accounts were upgraded within 25 hours.
*10 accounts did not get completed during the upgrade. We are now working with those users to get them upgraded.
*New account provisioning resumed the morning of July 29, 2013.
*Computer Help Center received very few calls – These calls mostly consisted of password resets and/or clearing of web browser caches for resolution.
*The schedule for implementing the new Office 365 features will be announced after further consultation with Microsoft.
If you have any issues or questions regarding a huskers.unl.edu account, please contact the Computer Help Center, 402-472-3970 or 1-866-472-3970 toll-free in U.S. or mysupport@unl.edu
For more info with a video demonstration of the two accounts, go to http://go.unl.edu/studentemail