{"id":8966,"date":"2018-07-09T11:40:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T15:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=8966"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:52","slug":"changes-o365-for-alumni-retirees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/09\/changes-o365-for-alumni-retirees\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to Office 365 Education for U-M alumni &#038; retirees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5951\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/office-365_643x280-e1512072452923.png\" alt=\"devices showing Office 365 apps\" width=\"528\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/office-365_643x280-e1512072452923.png 528w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/office-365_643x280-e1512072452923-125x62.png 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/office-365_643x280-e1512072452923-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Previously, Microsoft allowed anyone affiliated with an educational institution to sign up for a free, personally-provisioned Office 365 Education account by using their .edu email. Due to a shift in the way that Microsoft licenses their products to the university, alumni and retiree Office 365 accounts will be decommissioned by July 31, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new licensing approach by Microsoft requires that all Microsoft accounts with a umich.edu email address have an active affiliation with U-M. Therefore, alumni and retirees are not entitled to use U-M Office 365 and they will lose access, as they currently do with some other IT services. Emeritus faculty will retain access.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ITS Collaboration team is contacting this group in phases to inform them that their access to U-M Office 365 will end and to provide them with support and instructions about alternative services. They recommend moving Office 365 documents from OneDrive to U-M Google Drive, which alumni and retirees can continue to use. They are also providing information on how to purchase a personally-owned Office 365 account, if desired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/its.umich.edu\/news\/article\/faqs-about-office-365-after-you-leave-u-m\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FAQs About Office 365 After You Leave U-M<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/documentation.its.umich.edu\/node\/808\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Office 365 Accounts for People Who Leave U-M<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for more information.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously, Microsoft allowed anyone affiliated with an educational institution to sign up for a free, personally-provisioned Office 365 Education account by using their .edu email. Due to a shift in the way that Microsoft licenses their products to the university, alumni and retiree Office 365 accounts will be decommissioned by July 31, 2018. The new licensing approach by\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/09\/changes-o365-for-alumni-retirees\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[315,391],"class_list":["post-8966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-services","tag-collaboration","tag-office"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/office-365_643x280-e1512072452923.png",528,261,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/office-365_643x280-e1512072452923-125x62.png",125,62,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/office-365_643x280-e1512072452923-300x148.png",300,148,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/office-365_643x280-e1512072452923.png",528,261,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/office-365_643x280-e1512072452923.png",528,261,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/office-365_643x280-e1512072452923.png",528,261,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/office-365_643x280-e1512072452923.png",528,261,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/office-365_643x280-e1512072452923-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/office-365_643x280-e1512072452923-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/office-365_643x280-e1512072452923.png",528,261,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/office-365_643x280-e1512072452923.png",528,261,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/office-365_643x280-e1512072452923.png",400,198,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Rita Girardi, ITS Communications","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/girardi\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Previously, Microsoft allowed anyone affiliated with an educational institution to sign up for a free, personally-provisioned Office 365 Education account by using their .edu email. 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