Just last week, the PTC Information Technology department moved all student e-mail service to a Microsoft-hosted provider that now allows students to do much more with their student e-mail accounts than ever before. New services include document sharing, calendaring, secure online storage, the ability to send and recieve large (20 MB) attachments, improved spam and virus filtering, folders to organize messages and more.
"Microsoft offers colleges this service at no additional cost, and the service includes hosted exchange e-mail, 25 gigabytes of file storage through Skydrive and an online version of Microsoft office," says Ken Ries, Director of Information Technology. "This hosted solution provides students with more storage and additional tools that were not available with our previous e-mail system. We aren't able to offer the same level of service locally, and certainly not for free," Ries adds.
The new PTC student e-mail address format is: user@go.pinetech.edu. Existing mail has been migrated to the hosted solution for all returning students, and mailing lists, address books and other services continue to function. To activate the new format, students should log in on campus and initiate their newly formatted "go" acounts. Try it -- log in!
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