Hi Everyone,
This message was just sent to all departmental account owners.
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Dear Departmental Account Owners:
The conversion from departmental accounts to Special Purpose Accounts
(SPAs) is set to take place on November 12, 2014. After that time, all
existing departmental e-mail accounts must be accessed via the familiar
CalNet authentication, and can no longer be accessed via alternate login
access (i.e. using a Google key).
THE BASICS
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The initial roll-out of SPAs is only for existing departmental accounts.
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SPAs will provide a new method of direct access, ifyou want to
access it directly; if you don't want to access it directly, no
change is necessary.
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The conversion will notaffect users' existing delegations to a
departmental account. Anyone who has been delegated to a bConnected
account will still see it in the drop down list within their own
account when using bMail.
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There is a freeze on creating new departmental accounts or making
ownership changes until after the November 12th conversion. Continue
to send any departmental requests to accou...@berkeley.edu.
HOW TO PREPARE
1.
Read these instructions on using your CalNet authentication to
access your bConnected Departmental accounts:
https://wikihub.berkeley.edu/x/TAY1Bg
2.
Share this information with all of your account delegates so they
will be ready for the switch.
3.
Change bookmarked login pages after November 12, 2014.
BENEFITS
With SPA CalNet accounts:
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Users who directly log into a bConnected departmental account can
view all the account settings (users using delegation only see a
partial list of account settings).
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When users who are directly logged in reply to a message, the
Fromline will no longer have the phrase <By way of {name}>.
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SPAs offer enhanced security.
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You can create a departmental Box account. Items placed by any user
inside a folder created by a departmental Box account will be owned
by the departmental account and will be counted against the
department account's quota, not the individual users' quota. This
also allows easier management and retention of files as people join
and leave a group.
If you have any questions about this change, please contact
bconnec...@berkeley.edu <mailto:bconnec...@berkeley.edu>.
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