Prepare for the EMAIL MIGRATION
Mills faculty, staff, and students are migrating their Mills Google email, calendar, and contact data to the associated Northeastern Outlook accounts. Review the checklist to learn what to do before, during, and after your data is migrated to Microsoft 365.
Transition Schedule
Before the Migration
1. Training Opportunities
Learn more about Outlook and other M365 features on the resources page.
2. Signature
3. Rules and Filters
4. Calendar Subscriptions and Sharing
5. Web Browser
6. Outlook App
Download the Outlook app for free on your mobile device to log in to your email account on the go. Outlook is the recommended app for accessing your new email account.
7. Mailing Lists
8. Large Attachments
Other Things to Note Pre-Migration
- Email signatures
- Recurring events and meetings, only the first instance will copy to M365
- More than the first three email addresses per contact
- Attachments over 50 MB
- Filters and rules
- Delegates
- Tasks
- Contact tags

During the Migration
1. Migration Timeline
2. Migration Speed
3. Mail Organization
4. Migration
You will receive a confirmation email in your @northeastern.edu when your migration is complete. At that time, a copy of any emails going to your @mills.edu account will forward to M365.
After the Migration
1. Language and Time Zone
Learn how to change your language and time zone as needed.
2. Sharing Calendar
3. Reorganize Email
Learn how to recreate rules or filters to help organize your email. If you are not seeing all of your messages, select the arrow to the left of the folder.
4. M365 On the Go
5. Alternative Mail Applications
6. Personalize
7. Contact List
If you have a large contact list, the contacts will need to be migrated manually to your M365 account. For assistance, contact the IT Service Desk.
8. Mills Email
Any messages still addressed to @mills.edu emails will continue to be forwarded to @northeastern.edu. You will continue to have access to your Mills Google account to verify that data has been migrated to M365 successfully. You will be notified before Mills Google accounts are completely retired, which is expected in January 2023.
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