Spartan 365 - Email and Microsoft Office

A series of questions and answers related to MSU's licensing policy regarding Spartan 365.

This article provides an overview of Microsoft Power BI and how to request the service.

Microsoft Teams is a chat-based workspace that is integrated with Office 365. It gives teams instant access to everything they need in a dedicated hub for teamwork where chat, content, people, and tools live together in Office 365.

Each new student organization will normally be setup with a Microsoft Teams site and a shared email account. These accounts are established and/or requested by Student Life when they approve the creation of the RSO.

MSU Students and Retirees are able to forward their Spartan Mail to outside email services, but MSU employees are not.

Following these steps will find how much storage space your Spartan Mail email account is using and how much you have left available.

Following these steps will allow a properly-licensed MSU person to install Spartan 365 (Microsoft Office 365) on a personal device.

Following these steps will copy your Spartan Drive files to a personal OneDrive account.

Following these steps will connect you to a shared mailbox in Spartan Mail.

When you leave Michigan State University, you will lose access to your OneDrive. This article tells you how to save these files to your computer which can then be uploaded to another server or migrate them to a personal (non-MSU) OneDrive.

Following these steps will enable you to download or delete videos on Microsoft Stream Classic, which is being replaced by Stream (on SharePoint).

Following these steps will verify if your Spartan Mail account is able to be forwarded to an outside email service (like Gmail).

Following these steps will add your Spartan Mail account to a local Windows 10 Mail app.

Following these steps will add a new email account in a local Windows Outlook client that is connected to MSU's Spartan Mail service.

Following these steps will allow you to change which folders from your Spartan Drive account are automatically synced to your Windows device. The default behavior is that everything is synced.

Following these steps will connect a locally installed Windows Outlook client to MSU's Spartan Mail service.

Following the steps in this article will create a backup of your Spartan Mail account to a local machine that can then also be transferred to a new mail service if desired.

Following these steps will add your Spartan Mail account to a local Mac Mail client.

Following these steps will add a connection to your Spartan Mail account to an existing install of Outlook on macOS.

Following these steps will allow you to change which folders from your Spartan Drive account are automatically synced to your macOS device.

Following these steps will connect a locally installed Outlook client on macOS to your Spartan Mail email account.

Following these steps will connect your MSU Spartan Mail account to your iOS device.

Following these steps will connect your MSU Spartan Mail account to your Android device using the built-in mail application.

After a password change is made, the saved password on one or more devices often results in access to a user's mail account being locked out when the password still needs to be updated.

If you are attempting to share a Spartan Drive file with someone at MSU (@msu.edu email address) and you receive a message that "xxx@msu.edu is outside of your organization. You can share the file to this individual but the person will not be able to login to Spartan Drive to view and/or edit the file.

Restrictions placed on directory information can affect the way your name is displayed or not when using MSU services.

Steps to try and resolve an Office application (like Word or Excel) that isn't working correctly, perhaps opening in "Read Only" mode

You receive a permissions error when trying to access a shared mailbox.