Use Your IdentiKey
Microsoft 365 uses our campus Active Directory (AD) to automatically synchronize with your IdentiKey username and password.
Account Provisioning and Information
Faculty and Staff
New faculty, staff and officer/professional positions will automatically be provisioned with a Microsoft 365 account, which includes Office Online, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint and Exchange Online. After receiving an IdentiKey, an account will generally follow for new users within one business day.
If a new employee has a previous IdentiKey, submit the New Exchange Mailbox Request Form in OIT's Messaging and Collaboration Request Portal to have an Exchange account created for them.
Departments need to inform OIT when a faculty or staff member leaves the university in order to terminate the account. Similarly, if the faculty or staff member transitions to a retiree, alumnus or other university affiliation, notify OIT.
Students
CU Boulder students have access to Microsoft 365 programs, including Office Online, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, Stream, Teams and Exchange Online.
Student Employees
Student employees may use their primary Microsoft Exchange account for email and calendaring, but the department may prefer to request a secondary account to isolate work-related messages and tasks to a separate account that can be terminated when the student employee leaves the department.
To request a secondary Exchange account for student employees, the student's supervisor should submit the Student Employee Account Request Form on OIT's Messaging and Collaboration Request portal to create the account.
Sponsored Affiliates, Groups and Resources
For information about sponsored affiliate, group and resource Exchange Online accounts, visit the Microsoft 365 Mailbox Accounts page.
Retirees
Upon retirement, CU Boulder retirees are entitled to keep their email account and IdentiKey. Learn more about retiree support.
