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Your SU email address (NetID@syr.edu) identifies you as a member of the SU community and will be the name of your individual account within the SU's Google Apps service. This email address cannot be used as the name of other Google accounts, including any personal accounts. Your Google Apps password will be unique to Google Apps; the netid password that you use for MySlice, Blackboard, etc., will not be synchronized with Google Apps (this capability may be added later, but it will not be available when the service first goes live).
Pre-existing Google Apps Accounts
Accounts in Google Apps that have an email address that ends in @syr.edu have now been will be moved into the University's new organizational account . All content that you wish to retain and that is in the pre-existing account named with your SU email address must be moved to another personal account that is not part of the University’s Organizational account. This is because on January 10, 2012. Because we don’t have confirmation that this account actually belongs to you or anyone else associated with Syracuse University, and it is possible that someone other than you set up the account without your knowledge or consent. Therefore , we are going to disable this account on to need to verify ownership of the account by January 31, 2012. If you want to preserve your content ensure preservation of your content, or keep it in an account personal to you and outside of SU's new Google Apps service, it should be moved to a new personal account as soon as possible. We regret any inconvenience this may cause.
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For more information, we encourage you to consult Google’s Transition readiness checklist.
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Since the University is liable for the content stored in its organizational Google Apps account, all individual user accounts within the SU organizational account must comply with the University’s Information Technology policies: policies.