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Graduating Student Notice

Olin Accounts

  • 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, SSH accounts and access to all cloud based applications, such as Microsoft and Adobe 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.

Email Accounts

All graduating students will be issued an alumni email address approximately 3 or 4 weeks after graduation. Once created, this will become your primary email address. You will have full access to all emails sent to your @alumni.olin.edu address as well as your @student.olin.edu address for approximately 8 weeks after graduation. After that date, your @student.olin.edu address will no longer exist. A graduating student email will be sent out with specific dates.

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 can continue to manage your Olin alumni email through the Office 365 portal https://portal.office.com. Log in with your username@olin.edu and current password. If you would prefer to forward your alumni account to a personal address, use the search feature on the portal for forwarding help. If your current student email account is forwarding, this forwarding will continue with your alumni account.
  • 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 approximately 8 weeks.
  • You will continue to log into the Office 365 portal http://portal.office.com with your current log on of username@olin.edu

Data

  • You should backup and remove all of your files and folders from all network resources. This includes your personal network storage space, public, sandbox, Olin cloud storage for MS and Adobe, and any group folders.
  • All graduating student data, including personal folders, web folders, etc. will be purged from network resources approximately eight 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.

Laptops

  • 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.

Laptop Computer Accounts and Domain Membership

  • 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.
  • If you do not wish to reimage, we recommend removing your computer from the Olin domain and configuring it for your own workgroup/domain after graduation.

Be sure you have a working local administrator account

    • 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.
    • 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.

Software

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
  • Access to all cloud based programs from Microsoft and Adobe will stop functioning once your network account is inactivated. Be sure to move any cloud files to a more accessible personal location

Adobe does offer free cloud storage for graduating students: please see the below flyer from Adobe: adobe_cloud_migration.pdf

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.