We have recently made an important change to the way Henley programme members access the varied cloud based resources and cloud authentication methods to the learning platforms and resources.

 

What are we doing?

Historically there has been two Office365 systems at the University of Reading. One for the bulk of the students at Reading (e.g undergraduates and postgrads on typical University of Reading courses) and one setup initially for the Henley programme members (traditionally taught at the Greenlands campus and for distance learning students).
Time has now come to merge these two systems into the primary system. This process involves:

  1. Modifying your University Login Username(UPN/long form username): ab123456@live.henley.com (example)
  2. Modifying your Primary Email Address (from address): smith@student.henley.ac.uk (example)
  3. Move your existing Exchange Online Mailbox (including mail forwarding rules) and OneDrive content to the new system

 

Why are we doing this?

In order to provide secure access to the recently upgraded cloud based services (library resources, o365 apps),  it is technically not possible to continue under the previous setup. This change is necessary to enable us to deliver future integrations seamlessly along with maintaining account security in accordance with the University Security Policy.

 

How will it affect me?

The merging of the two systems brings many benefits to you, as well as the business a whole.

From the 1st of March 2021 onwards,  there will 3 changes as described:

 

  Old method – pre-change New method – post-change  Impact
Short Form Username ab123456 ab123456 No change
Long Form Username ab123456@live.henley.com ab123456@student.reading.ac.uk This is the main change
Primary email address a.smith@programme-member.henley.com a.smith@student.henley.ac.uk Your Primary email address will change
Additional email alias n/a a.smith@programme-member.henley.com Your old Henley email address will still work for others to use

 

Please note:  On the first login you will be prompted to set up (MFA) Multifactor Authentication by following the on-screen prompts.  This is an important step in protecting your account against unauthorised access as a result of a security compromise.

On the plus side you will now have seamless access to the wider suite of Office 365 products, such as Teams, Forms, OneDrive & PowerApps and will no longer have to be invited as a ‘guest’ to access shared resources.

The single style of logging into resources such as Outlook, TopDesk self-service portal and Blackboard will make for a simpler experience.

 

Any technical questions, please email the IT Service Desk at dts@reading.ac.uk