Well, fellow students, we are approaching the end of August,
which means that we’re about to start another exciting school year with some
significant changes all around campus. Construction on Malone Hall is
progressing well, North Charles Street is completing the final stages before
the street is reopened, and the new biology labs have finally been opened and
they are ready to go. Internally the campus has changed as well: Aramark has
been replaced as the food provider by Bon Appetit, and the campus dining
options and lounges have been completely renovated with new stations and
services. The worst part is Einstein’s Bagel Bros. is gone, but judging from
the food at Levering, we’re not going to miss it for long.
This is what CharMar looked like a month ago, but no pictures have been posted since. They're clearly hiding something amazing. From https://www.facebook.com/HopkinsDining |
Another difference between this year and last year is the
renovations to the Hopkins websites that are happening in every department and
office associated with Johns Hopkins. They are everywhere, and the place where
they are most noticeable is within the Hopkins portal. We’ll talk about the
changes to the dashboard and home page next week, because today is going to
focus solely on the Johns Hopkins email system.
What it used to be. |
On June 17 Johns Hopkins switched its email provider from
Outlook 2010 to Office 365, and while the transition has been smooth for some,
others have expressed displeasure at the change in the email. Personally, I
always used the ending @jhu.edu. If you are like me, then you probably had no
issues with forwarding Outlook email to your Gmail or Yahoo accounts. If you
instead used the ending @live.johnshopkins.edu, however, you’ll need to know
that this ending has changed. The implications of this are your Gmail won’t
accept mail that isn’t from the address listed on the options page, and mail
that used to reach your Hopkins mail account just bounces back.
What it is now. |
The new ending, for the record, is @jh.edu.It's pretty simple and short, unlike the cumbersome @live.johnshopkins.edu domain.
As you can imagine, the login page for Outlook also doesn’t
work anymore. The old address, login.live.com, is still accessible, and you can
still enter your Hopkins ID and password, but it will only take you to the
storage space you were afforded with the original Live@edu account. This means
the SkyDrive and cloud storage space is still available to you, but your email
is not. To access your email without traveling through the portal, the new
address is outlook.office365.com. The login page for this email looks identical
to the ones for the portal, but it does open directly to the familiar Outlook email
system.
The login page for the email system and the new JH Portal. |
You can also prevent yourself from ever looking at Outlook
again, if you are so inclined, since you can easily forward your email to
another interface, such as Gmail. To do this, just go to the top right corner
of the Outlook mail screen and make the drop down menu appear. Click “See All
Options,” then click the tab at the top of the middle section of the page
called “Connected Accounts.” You can choose to connect your two email accounts,
so you can access all the information from both and send from either email
address by using only one interface, or you could choose to simply forward
email from Outlook to the other. Of
course, if you want to use the portal to access your email, ISIS, Blackboard,
and other Hopkins sites and keep the other mailbox separate, that’s fine too. It
really depends on what you want, and it’s great that the system is flexible
enough to give you choices.
Where the See All Options tab is in the upper right corner. |
Lastly, to set up the Office 365 email on your mobile phone
requires a bit of cellular gymnastics. Some phones will accept the JHEDID@jhu.edu and password, and start working
immediately. Androids and iPhones also require the name of the server, and
there are three different servers that could satisfy this requirement. For more
information on these servers, you can go here, but in general one of these
should work for your mobile phone.
POP 3 Server Name: outlook.office365.com, Port 995 SSL
IMAP4 Server Name: outlook.office365, Port 993 SSL
SMTP Server Name: smtp.office365.com, Port 587 TLS
For more information on the email system in general, the
link is here. Hopefully this has alleviated any concerns that you’ve had with
the new email system, but if you have any comments, please leave them below.
Until next time!
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