Office of the CIO-Projects & Strategic Initiatives
Exchange Project

 

 

Welcome to the web presence for the BGSU Exchange Project.  This project will transition account holders from the current BGNet based email system to a new Microsoft Exchange-based email system during the first half of 2008. The target completion date is June 30, 2008.

 

Once transitioned to Exchange, Windows users can gain access to their email and calendar using Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Macintosh users can use Entourage 2008.  Users will also have access to email and calendars through the Outlook Web Access (OWA) webmail-based client provided by Microsoft as well as any application that supports IMAPS.  Outlook and Entourage allow for users to have integrated calendaring, email, tasks, contacts and other features.  

 

In order to provide users with the ability to transfer information, WebMail (available at webmail.bgsu.edu) will be available until July 14, 2008.

 

All Meeting Maker accounts were moved to Exchange in May. Transitioning all accounts at the same time allowed for little interruption to the ability to schedule meetings.  Please see the TSC Self-Help page link to the right for documentation on using Exchange for email and calendaring.

 

Training for Outlook and Entourage will be offered by Continuing and Extended Education. Please reference training information at:  http://ctc.bgsu.edu/exchange.

 

 

 

 


What is Exchange?

 

What is Microsoft Exchange?  

What is Microsoft Outlook?

What is Entourage?

  What is Outlook Web Access (OWA)?

Why move to a new system?

Security Measures

 

Migration

 

Migration with E-mail Move Information

Migration Information for Retirees

Migration Information for Office Accounts

Migration Guides

E-mail Migration FAQ's

Meeting Maker Migration

Meeting Maker Migration FAQ

 

Project Resources 

 

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

Rumor Mill

Rumor Mill Responses

OWA Sample Screen Shot

Project Communications

Training Sessions

 

Helps, Resources, Links

 

TSC Self-Help Pages

Outlook Web Access (OWA) URL:
http://mail.bgsu.edu

 Quarantine URL:
http://junkmail.bgsu.edu

 Mailserver is mail.bgsu.edu, port 993

SMTP server for IMAP users is
outbound.bgsu.edu, port 587

Technology Support Center (TSC)
2-0999,
tsc@bgsu.edu