OIT recently migrated all active osu.edu mailboxes to the new system. The process began late February and included the transfer of over 144,130 student, faculty, staff, alumni, and consultant accounts. The migration totaled more than 610.4GB of data consisting of 28,336,789 messages.

Migration is one of the most complex elements of any deployment project. Data integrity is critical and OIT took steps to ensure that all mail accounts, stored messages, and associated personal information and preferences (for example, address books, passwords, and custom settings) were accurately retained in the new e-mail system.

According to Larry Glover, OIT associate director of operations, the migration went as planned short of a few glitches. As for the current Webmail migration assistant page, Glover said plans are to take it down during summer quarter.

Currently on the new system, quotas for storing e-mail on the central server did not change. Quotas are set at 30MB (megabytes) for full-time faculty and staff and 15MB for everyone else. E-mail quota includes the space taken by messages in your Inbox and Trash folders, as well as any messages in IMAP folders that have been created. Users can check their quota usage in webmail.

Glover said additional offering are planned later this year including a calendar client, increased storage quotas for faculty and staff, enhanced spam protection, instant messaging support, and increased ADA usability and user functionality. He also expects outsourcing of student e-mail to a commercial vendor. Details will be communicated when available.

If you have questions, contact 8help by sending e-mail to 8help@osu.edu, visit 8help.osu.edu/migration, or call 614-688-HELP.