MIT Kavli Institute (MKI) Email Migration

The goal of this article is to provide guidance for staff who need to access their MIT Campus Office 365 account.

On this page:

How to Access MIT Campus Office 365 (Email)

MIT Campus Email can be accessed via

• the Outlook Web Application (outlook.office.com) or
• you can configure your native Email application(s) to access Office 365 (including your mobile device)

Listed below are instructions to configure your preferred email application. Note: you only need to configure the application that you normally use to send/receive email.

Configuring Outlook for Windows: Instructions can be found here

Configuring Outlook for MAC: Instructions can be found here

Configuring Pine or Alpine to use MIT’s M365 email: Instructions can be found here

If you need to configure your phone or don’t see your preferred email application listed above then please refer to the configuring section of the following link

Microsoft 365 -email and calendaring landing page

How to update my preferred email

You will need to add your @space.mit.edu or @ligo.mit.edu email account as your preferred email in the About me tab in Atlas. This step is critical to ensure that you continue to receive emails from either space.mit.edu or ligo.mit.edu.

Follow the below listed steps to update your preferred email.

1. Visit Atlas at https://atlas-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/
2. Navigate to About Me tab

3. On the left-hand side Menu, Click on Personal Information

4. A screen with your personal information will appear to the right. Scroll down to ‘Work Address and Contact Information’ section,
   a. Click on Edit
   b, Update your email address with your space.mit.edu or ligo.mit.edu email address
   c. Hit Save

Other useful information

First time logging into Touchstone powered by Okta?

The first time you log in to Touchstone powered by Okta you will need to re-connect your MIT Kerberos with Duo. Reconnecting instructions can be found here.

CERTAID

Certificates are used as part of authentication for Microsoft Office 365. You can verify that these are installed here: https://web-cert-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/certificates/test/index.html

To install certificates for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari browsers, launch CertAid (Applications > CertAid) and follow these instructions:
https://kb-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/confluence/x/bGZBCQ#CertAidLandingPage-Using

Have Questions or Still Need Help?

Contact mki-it@mit.edu