Last week, the majority of faculty and a few staff got their Gmail accounts and began having their email and calendar appointments copied over from Zimbra to Gmail and Google Calendar. The process went well, by and large, with two minor snags. First, there was a configuration error that resulted in incoming email bouncing back to the sender for 50 minutes on Thursday evening. ITS was able to contact the small number of people who would have received these bounced messages and tell those intended recipients who had emailed them and what the subject line of the message was. Second, the initial stage of email copying had to be run twice, resulting in the initial copy finishing up around 11am on Friday morning rather than at 8am as planned.
Email sent to lists (like those ending in @lists.carleton.edu) was also delayed initially, but is now running smoothly.
If you have not yet attended a training session online or in person, check out the training options. And if you are having trouble getting Gmail to work for your needs, consider stopping by a drop-in session or contacting the ITS Helpdesk.
In COLLAB news, Off Campus Studies will begin moving their COLLAB files to Dropbox and/or Google Drive tomorrow! They have been thinking through their new file organization and seem ready to make the leap.
After OCS moves from COLLAB to the Cloud, the next big transition will be moving all the returning students from Zimbra to Gmail and Google Calendar starting the evening of June 23rd.