
<p>The University will switch exclusively to a new e-mail platform starting Monday.</p><p>The Office of Information Technology began making the move this Fall in efforts to create a more collaborative environment for communication. Currently, the university uses both DukeMail and Microsoft Office 365, but access to the University's Webmail platform will stop Monday. Students and staff can access the Microsoft Office 365 system through a web browser, Microsoft Outlook or mobile platforms such as the iPhone.</p><p>"Moving to Microsoft Office 365 will allow us to consolidate those into one mail system that will foster better collaboration and communication across departments and between the university and health system," OIT Senior Technical Director Charley Kneifel wrote in an email Thursday.</p><p>Kneifel said students, faculty and staff will see several benefits, including a mailbox size increase from 2GB to 50GB, unified email and calendaring across the university and health systems and improved web interface and calendaring system.</p><p><a href="http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2014/02/03/microsoft-office-365-officially-replaces-duke-webmail">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=00200016Z488">Microsoft, GoDaddy To Offer Office 365 to Small Biz</a> (Top Tech News)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dq_BbPwSi0iwmwM8dE0ieQEh5mmRM&authuser=0&ned=us">2 additional articles.</a></p>