Student Employees that require In certain circumstances, a UT faculty, staff, student employees or student that requires an Office 365 mailbox for their job will may need to self-provision a an Office 365 mailbox. A current employee that doesn't Faculty and Staff starting employment at UT should have an Office 365 mailbox can use this method as well.
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automatically created for them.
- To create a mailbox, go to the following website web page and login with your EID and EID password. You will be required to use second factor authentication (see Setting up UT Two-Factor Authentication).
https://www.austin.utexas.edu/Office365Management/
- Once you have logged in,
- Check the Display name and Email address. It is recommended you use the naming convention, firstname.lastname@austin.utexas.edu
- Select "Submit" (be patient, it may take a few minutes.)
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- Your mailbox has been successfully created when you see the following page. It will not be ready to use for about 2 hours.
- NOTE: In many cases, this mailbox may not be a person's primary mailbox and is only used to access a resource mailbox, e.g. student employee or student organization. If you WILL NOT be using this as your primary mailbox, please forward the mailbox to your primary email address after the mailbox has been created. To setup a forward, follow these instructions, Forwarding Email in Office 365.