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After migrating to your new email address, emails sent to your old address will be forwarded. This forwarding service will last until March 2011. While you will still receive these emails at your new address, it is important to let your contacts know that your email address has changed.

At this time faculty and staff will not show up in the my.uwstout.edu Global Address list. To look up a faculty or staff email addresses, visit Stout’s Directory Search.

The University of Wisconsin - Stout is now providing enhanced e-mail services for students and applicants by offering a "my.uwstout.edu" account hosted by Microsoft. Some of the benefits of this new system include 10GB of email storage, 25GB of file storage using Microsoft's SkyDrive, and the ability to to keep your UW-Stout email address after graduation.  Students have between September 24th and March 24th, 2010 to transition to the new system.

To transition, please visit liveMigration.uwstout.edu.

All applicant accounts created after September 23, 2009 should check their email at our hosted email site: mail.my.uwstout.edu . These accounts are easily identifiable as the username will have the new naming convention of last name, first initial, and then 4 random numbers. Older applicant accounts not having the 4 random numbers in their username will need to check their email at our Webmail site UNLESS they have transitioned to the new email system.

Whether using the new email system or old, all applicants still need to activate their account at https://password.uwstout.edu before they can check their email.

When logging into Microsoft’s hosted email service, you need to log in with your full email address, or Windows Live ID .This is the only resource you will log into using your fully qualified email address, which includes the my sub-domain (ex:doej@my.uwstout.edu).

Some campus resources, such as shared printers and shared network drives, require you to log in with your fully qualified username. In this case you do not use the my sub-domain (ex:doej@uwstout.edu).

For Outlook or any other POP/IMAP mail client settings, please visit http://help.outlook.com , or log into your new email account and click on the blue question mark in the upper right corner.  There is a section titled E-Mail Setup that will walk you through setting up your client.

Once you have initialzed and activated your account, you should see the following message

Important: Once you have activated your account and logged in, please click on the "More" menu at the top of the page and choose "Migrate Email". You will then be taken to a page where you can either migrate your old email messages or inform us that you do not wish to have anything moved to your new account. It is VERY important that you not only activate your account, but designate whether you want anything migrated.

Some browswers will not display this menu correctly, if at all. If you have activated your account, can log in, and this menu is not visible please visit the following link to sign up to migrate your email: Migration Page

Students and applicants are eligible for the new hosted email. If you are a student or applicant needing to migrate to the new system, please visit https://liveMigration.uwstout.edu.

Alumni students are also eligible for the new hosted email. If you are an alumnus needing to migrate to the new system, please vist http://webmail.alumni.uwstout.edu.

Faculty and staff are not eligible for the new system.

When completing the transition process, you are able to choose whether you want anything migrated from your old email account into your new one. Items that are migrated are: Inbox and subfolders, Calendar, and Contacts.

If you have items in your Sent Items or Deleted Items that need to be migrated, you should create a folder in your inbox and move the items you want migrated into this folder.

Some emails sent from faculty/staff or students who have not migrated to my.uwstout.edu are ending up in the Junk E-mail folder of students who have migrated. If you have migrated your account, you will need to check your Junk E-mail folder regularly to verify that there are not messages being missed. You can add people to your safe senders list to ensure that they do not end up in your Junk E-Mail again.

To add a specific person to your Safe Senders list:

1. Right click on a message in your Junk E-Mail folder.

2. Choose Junk E-Mail from the menu.

3. Choose to either add the sender to your safe list or the sender's entire domain. For instance if the sender was using an @uwstout.edu account, it may be a good idea to add the sender's entire domain so that all email sent from UW-Stout faculty, etc, will make it to your inbox.