• Enroll your network account at password.olin.edu as you will continue to be responsible for managing this account for access to the Olin portal https://my.olin.edu/ics/
• Network permissions, VPN, and any SSH accounts will remain active for approximately eight weeks after graduation. Specific dates will be sent out in a graduating student email. At this time, all of these accounts and permissions will become inaccessible.
• All students who will be taking additional classes, working on completing necessary coursework for graduation requirements, or working for Olin in some capacity over the summer, must have their manager or professor contact us prior to this time if you will require access to resources beyond that date.

New this year!

All graduating students will be issued an alumni email address a few weeks after graduation. Once created, this will become your primary email address. All email sent to your alumni address as well as your student email addresses will be delivered to your current Olin mailbox for approximately eight weeks after graduation After that date, your @student.olin.edu address will no longer exist.

What this means to you

• Your student mailbox will become your alumni mailbox so you will retain full access to past emails as well as the ability to send new emails from @alumni.olin.edu
• You will be issued a new alumni address of username@alumni.olin.edu
• You will retain your current email address of username@olin.edu
• Your firstname.lastname@students.olin.edu will cease to exist after July 17th, 2019
  • If you are currently forwarding your student email to a personal address, your alumni email will continue to forward
• You will continue to log into the Office 365 portal http://portal.office.com with your current log on of username@olin.edu

• Once your student email account is closed out, you will no longer have access to any of the mail on the server. Be sure to back up everything you need prior to the transition to your alumni account.
• You should backup and remove all of your files and folders from all network resources. This includes your personal network storage space, public, sandbox, and any group folders.
• All graduating student data, including personal folders, web folders, etc. will be purged from network resources approximately four weeks after graduation.
• If you are listed as the owner of a mailman list you must transfer ownership to a student who will be returning to Olin in the fall.

Once purged, data will no longer be available or recoverable.

• Your Dell laptop's warranty and complete care policy will expire mid-July.
• If you will be in the general area, we can continue to service your laptop until the warranty expires, otherwise, you may contact Dell directly to have an onsite service technician dispatched for service.

• IT recommends you bring your laptop to the helpdesk to have it reimaged with a “graduating senior” account which will wipe out all existing information and give you a clean install of Windows 10, Office 2016 and MS Security Essentials.
• If you do not wish to reimage, we recommend removing your computer from the Olin domain and configuring it for your own workgroup/domain four weeks after graduation. please be sure you have a working local administrator account
  • Removing Computer from Olin Domain
• Note: Once you remove your computer from the Olin domain, your cached domain account will no longer be accessible. However, you will still be able to access the data within the profile using a local administrator account.
• IT will not provide the password currently associated with the IT administrator account.
  • Renaming Local Accounts
• It is imperative that you verify that you have a working local user account with full administrative privileges on your laptop. This can be done by using the Computer management tool located in the Administrative Tools section of Control Panel. If you require assistance before leaving campus, contact the IT Help Desk.

You are no longer licensed to use any Olin owned/licensed software including:

• Olin site licensed software such as Matlab and Solidworks
• Symantec Endpoint Protection - you should have a personal copy of antivirus software
• All programs that are licensed for the cloud from Microsoft and Adobe will stop functioning as the licensing will be expired. Be sure to move any cloud files to a more accessible location prior to July 17th, 2019

If you have questions or require any assistance, please contact the IT Help Desk by email at HelpDesk@olin.edu or by telephone at 781‐292‐2430 for support.