UNK began its migration of faculty and staff Microsoft 365 accounts this month, with students expected to migrate on April 25 and 26. Once completed, students will log into their Microsoft 365 accounts by using their TrueYou usernames, which consist of their NUID number followed by @nebraska.edu.
The change is a part of the Future Ready Cloud Collaboration Workspace Project. It is led by Information Technology Services and will migrate all active directories and email tenants into one server.
“Today, email tenants, which is what the servers are called that house our Microsoft environments, are in completely separate environments,” said Andrea Childress, assistant vice president for Information and Technology Services. “Email is one thing, but using Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive across the campuses, which is becoming more and more common, is not user-friendly or necessarily intuitive.”
While students’ login information will change, their emails will stay the same. Students at UNO and UNL will also keep their original email addresses.
Childress said this was done to respect the brands of each campus. UNMC has its own IT department and is not included in this project.
The purpose of the project is to improve collaboration, increase security and save money.
According to the University of Nebraska System’s website, after the migration is complete, users will no longer face access restrictions when working with people on different campuses. UNO’s student migration is set to finish in July 2025, while UNL’s students won’t migrate until January 2026.
