About Exchange Online at IU

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Overview
Configure your mail client for Exchange Online
Troubleshoot

Overview

Notes:

You can always access your email directly at OWA.
Migrations of Exchange email accounts from the on-premises environment to Exchange Online completed on April 13, 2021.

At IU, Exchange Online delivers the capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server as a cloud-based service, allowing you to access email, calendar, contacts, and tasks from your personal computer, the web, and mobile devices. Exchange Online integrates fully with Active Directory, enabling administrators to use group policies and other administration tools to manage its features across their environment. Though hosted by Microsoft, Exchange Online is still managed by the IU Exchange administrators and meets the same security and privacy guidelines as the previous Exchange environment.

Exchange Online requires all connections to mail to use two-factor authentication. The Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) platform provides advanced Threat Protection settings and other enhanced controls.

Exchange Online integrates directly into Microsoft Teams at IU, allowing you to schedule meetings and see your Exchange calendar and free/busy information within the Microsoft Teams application. Other Microsoft 365 applications such as Power Automate can also take advantage of the account, storing attachments in Microsoft OneDrive at IU, or setting email triggers on activity.

For details about add-ins for Exchange Online, see About Microsoft 365 add-ins and Microsoft Store apps at IU.

Features

Exchange Online includes:

Improved security, including two-factor authentication
Compatibility with Microsoft Teams at IU, Microsoft OneDrive at IU, Canvas, third-party tools, and other organizations
Likes and @ mentions
Microsoft MyAnalytics
Skype for Business to Teams Telephony
Cortana Daily Briefings
Power Automate
Larger quotas (100 GB for most users)
Better spam controls
Junk mail retention increased to 30 days
Long-term platform stability

Configure your mail client for Exchange Online

Notes:

UITS recommends enabling Cached Exchange Mode on clients that support it. For more, see About Outlook's Cached Exchange Mode and Online Mode.
IU's Exchange Online environment does not support IMAP. If you use Thunderbird or Linux, check the "Owl for Exchange add-on" or "Evolution email client" instructions noted below.

Follow the appropriate instructions below to configure your mail client for Exchange Online.

You may also wish to view some short how-to videos.

Troubleshoot

For a list of known issues and workarounds for Exchange Online, see Known issues with Exchange Online.

For help troubleshooting Outlook, see How to troubleshoot performance issues in Outlook.