Phishing is a top cyber security threat to the University of Stirling. Personally-identifiable information – the primary target of phishing attempts – which falls into the wrong hands can cause much financial and reputational damage to the University and its employees. Phishing attacks are often launched by including malicious attachments or links in email. When […]
Category: Email
Do you want to continue access to your UNIVERSITY EMAIL after graduation?
Important update – it is not possible for the university to hold open a student’s email account for 90 days after graduation. This is due to Microsoft licensing. We are therefore having to change the email/Box opt-in/out period from 90 days after graduation to 30 days. If you do nothing your email and Box account will […]
Introducing the new Office 365 App Launcher
You may have noticed that your student email (Office 365) has changed recently. Microsoft have made some changes and there is now a newer version of the Office 365 app launcher. You should find it easier to find recently used apps, and there are additional customisation options. You can access the new features by clicking […]
New Outlook feature – online archives
As part of the New technologies Project, Information Services is introducing an online archive service for email which will provide up to 100GB of archive storage for each member of staff. This enhancement will provide an improved service for archiving your Outlook content, and deliver the ability to access your archived information from any location […]
Office 365 services now restored
Further to our earlier blog posting, Office 365 services have now been restored. Information Services.
Office 365 Service Loss
Microsoft are advising customers in West and North Europe of an interruption to their online services (Office 365) caused by a failure of the login service (for up to date status of the fault see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/status/). The problem, which started at 0900 today, will affect the ability of students to log in to […]
Download Microsoft Office FREE from your student email
Information Services has launched a new feature of our Microsoft licence called Student Advantage, which allows our students (Undergraduate and Taught Postgraduate) to download Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus onto their own equipment, AT NO CHARGE. This deal works for the duration of your study at Stirling. What’s included: Office 365 ProPlus for PC (Office […]
Upgrade to student email (OWA) on Friday 7th June
Microsoft are preparing to release an upgrade to our student email system (Outlook Web App) this Friday, 7th June. The interface of OWA will change to fall in line with hotmail.com/outlook.com so will look a bit different after the upgrade (but not massively different – it shouldn’t cause you any real problems in doing […]
Student email moves to Outlook Web App (OWA) this week
This email is a reminder that student (UG and TPG) email accounts will be moving from the SquirrelMail system to Outlook Web App THIS WEEK. The changeover date is Wed 30th January. On Wed 30th, there may be some delays in incoming email arriving in your new OWA inbox as we transfer routing between […]
Outlook Web App – countdown to your new student email system
The new student email system – Microsoft Web App (OWA) which is part of the cloud based Office365 solution – will go live to all students on Wednesday 30th January. A pilot group which has been testing the new interface has reported no serious issues with the system and generally feedback has been very positive. […]