GoogleApps Retirement FAQ

Email notifications & reminders to impacted accounts began on April 16, 2025.

The move of UMB Google email addresses for enrolled students and actively used alumni email addresses to UMB Microsoft 365 began June 18, 2025 and is complete.

Automatic forwarding of email in the UMB Google environment was disabled on June 17, 2025 to enhance the security of UMB email accounts. More information is available here: https://www.umaryland.edu/cits/departments-leadership-and-committees/it-security-and-compliance/security-awareness/changes-to-auto-forwarding-of-emails/

School of Medicine (SOM) alumni are receiving a new SOM alumni email address. Beginning the week of June 23, 2025, all new email sent to their original UMB Google alumni email address delivered instead to their new SOM alumni email address for one (1) year.

Access to UMB Google will be disabled the week of June 30, 2025. Please download any data you wish to keep by this date.

Visit the UMB account management website at https://directory.umaryland.edu/ to activate your UMB Microsoft 365 account.  Activation can take up to 30 minutes to complete.

Once activated, visit https://portal.office.com, log in with your UMB alumni email address & password, click Apps on the left, then click Outlook to access your UMB alumni email account.

For alumni, UMB Office 365 provides only email.  Cloud file or photo storage is not available.

If your UMB Google email address was automatically moved to UMB Microsoft 365, you first need to activate your Microsoft 365 UMB login by visiting the UMB Account Management website at https://directory.umaryland.edu and complete the activation process.

To access your UMB Microsoft 365 alumni email account, visit https://portal.office.com, log in with your UMB alumni email address & password, click Apps on the left, then click Outlook to access your UMB alumni email account.

To access from a mobile device, install the Outlook app and follow the Add Account instructions from the instructions below.

• Instructions for Apple iOS: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/set-up-the-outlook-app-for-ios-b2de2161-cc1d-49ef-9ef9-81acd1c8e234
  
  
• Instructions for Android: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/set-up-email-in-the-outlook-for-android-app-886db551-8dfa-4fd5-b835-f8e532091872

Please visit the Downloading Your UMB Google Data page for information on downloading and saving your content.

Yes, as an alumnus you can still receive a UMB Microsoft 365 alumni email address.  Please contact the UMB Help Desk for assistance.