Welcome to the new MCC Live@Edu Student E-Mail Your new MCC Student E-Mail account is now available. We think you will find it to be an improvement over the previous system and hope the additional features will be of great use during your time at MCC. Below is additional information about the accounts that should answer most of the questions you may have. If, after reading, you should still have questions, please contact the Student E-Mail Help Desk. The office is located on the Brighton Campus in 3-139A and can be reached at 292-2555 or by e-mailing studenthelp@student.monroecc.edu. What is this new e-mail all about? MCC has partnered with Microsoft to use their Live@Edu platform for all of our student e-mail accounts. Will my e-mail address change? What about my password? No, your e-mail address will remain the same: first initial, last name, and three digits @student.monroecc.edu (e.g., atester001@student.monroecc.edu). Your password was reset to your 8 digit birth date (mmddyyyy). We strongly recommend you change your password the first time you log in to your new account. Where are all my old e-mails? As part of the conversion to the new e-mail accounts, all contents of the old mailboxes had to be deleted. Several notices to this effect were sent out to all current student e-mail accounts and posted to the Student Tribune web page. Any e-mail or attachments that were not saved before the conversion are lost and cannot be recovered. What do I get with Live@Edu e-mail? A 10GB inbox that enables you to keep thousands of images and other attachments in your inbox and folders and the ability to send attachments up to 10MB in size E-mail forwarding Anti-spam and anti-virus protection, including a color-coded safety bar identifying suspicious e-mail, more control over spam and scam e-mail, and virus scanning for incoming e-mail and attachments Shared calendaring Is that it? No, in addition to the enhanced e-mail capabilities, you also can access and use the following services and features: * Microsoft Office Live Workspace: Web functionality for Microsoft Office.Microsoft Office Live Workspace is a Web-based extension of Microsoft Office that lets you access your documents online and share your work with others. Available at no charge, Office Live Workspace lets you do the following: Access documents when on the go. You can organize documents and projects for work, school and home online, and work on them from almost any computer — even one not connected to the school network. You can save more than 1,000 Microsoft Office documents to one place online and access them via the Web. Share with others. You can work collaboratively on a project with others in a password-protected, invitation-only online workspace, helping to eliminate version-control challenges that arise when e-mailing drafts to multiple people. Collaborators who don’t have a desktop version of Microsoft Office software can still view and comment on the document in a Web browser. Extend Microsoft Office. You can easily connect to Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office Outlook on your PC via the Web. * Windows Live SkyDrive. This feature offers 5GB of password-protected online storage. you can also share documents in the SkyDrive with the people in your contact lists. * Windows Live Messenger. This chat feature allows you to have audio and video conversations with friends, family and colleagues. It also has multiuser instant messenger (IM) functionality for study groups. * Windows Live Spaces. The uses for this feature in education environments are plentiful. For example, you can create e-profiles for prospective employers. Students, alumni, faculty, clubs and departments can use spaces to share information, photos, blogs and more. * Windows Live for mobile devices. You can access your e-mail, IM and Live Search from your mobile phones or from any other Web-enabled mobile device. Carrier charges may apply for wireless data service. Find more information on all of these features and learn about new ones at http://my.liveatedu.com/ Do I need to use a Windows PC or Microsoft Internet Explorer? No. All the Web-based services included can be accessed from Windows, Mac, or Linux using Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and other browsers. Basically any browser supported by MSN® or Windows Live in general is supported for your MCC e-mail. Browser detection is also used to tune the experience the end user receives based on the browser’s capabilities. What happens to my e-mail account when I graduate? One advantage of this account is that you won't have to abandon or export your e-mail, contacts, or calendar items when you graduate from MCC. You can continue to use the services after you graduate if you wish. If you don't log in for 365 days, any mail messages stored on the e-mail server will be deleted, but the account itself will remain. If you log in after a 365-day lapse, you can resume using e-mail services but all your old messages will be gone. How can I use my web-enabled cell phone or other mail client such as Thunderbird and Outlook with my e-mail? See this page for instructions on configuring your connection(s): http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchangelabshelp/bb880048.aspx If you are already familiar with how to configure a mail client, the general settings are: Incoming Mail Server: Server Name: pop.exchangelabs.com Protocol: POP3, using SSL Port: 995 Outgoing Mail Server: Server Name: smtp.exchangelabs.com Protocol: SMTP, using SSL Port: 587 Username: enter your full e-mail address