The university will switch from using Google Workspace to Microsoft Office 365 (O365) between June and August 2022. The "switch" is our response to Google’s new storage policy that significantly shrinks the storage space allocated to each user. With O365, each user will be allocated 50GB of email and 1TB OneDrive storage, which is sufficient for the majority of our university community.
The migration to O365 will involve the transfer of Google Workspace contents (e.g. Gmail messages, Google calendar events, Google Drive documents, and Google Photos) to the corresponding Microsoft services (e.g. Outlook and OneDrive).
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Email, Calendar & Contacts |
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Online Meeting / Unified Communications |
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Document Processing |
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Website Building | ![]() |
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(1) ITO will perform the Email & Data Migration in phases. Users will be informed by email of the migration details in advance.
(2) Email will continue to deliver to Gmail until relevant staff/associate has performed the Self-service Switch-Over ON/BEFORE 31 August 2022.
(3) [SSOid @staff.hkbu.edu.hk] Google accounts for BUniPort services will RETIRE on 31 August 2022. Thereafter, all contents will be READ-ONLY and permanently DELETED on 31 August 2023.
(4) All incoming emails will be delivered to Gmail and Outlook webmail simultaneously on 15 to 30 June 2022.