Google Apps

Introduction to Google Apps

Over the next 18 months, ITS will be moving student and student organization e-mail accounts to Google Apps.  

• December 2012 - March 2013
  • Migrate existing students, organizational and alumni accounts
  • Initial apps: Gmail and Calendaring
• Future phases of the project are still being determined and will include other applications

Getting started

Once you are admitted to Harvard Law School, you will receive a letter via postal mail containing your HLS e-mail address and Claim ID. The first thing you should do upon receiving this information is Claim your Me account through me.law.harvard.edu. You should also follow this link to change your password during your tenure at HLS.

Follow this link for more information on how to change your password and how to claim your Me account, Claim Me.

After you have claimed your account, you can login to Gmail at http://www.gmail.com. Enter your full email address and the password you entered when you claimed your account.

NOTE:  If a user has deleted a message permanently, by clicking Delete Forever in Spam or Trash, it is not possible to recover the message. It is also impossible to recover messages after an administrator deletes a user's account.  For more information, please see the archiving section of the FAQ's.

Understanding your user name (for students)

In order to provide you with an e-mail address for life, the email address scheme will be as follows:

• USERNAME@jdXX.law.harvard.edu (with XX being the graduating year) or
• USERNAME@llmXX.law.harvard.edu (with XX being the graduating year) or
• USERNAME@sjd.law.harvard.edu (with XX being the graduating year) or
• USERNAME@mail.law.harvard.edu

These naming conventions are used in order to provide uniqueness, while maintaining a meaningful username, over the course of many years.

Changing your password

Follow this link for more information on how to change your password: Claim Me.

FAQ's

Click here to see the FAQ's.

How To's

• Comprehensive Guide to Google Apps
• Gmail
• Google Calendar
• Google Contacts
• Google Apps for Education Training Center

NOTE:  If a user has deleted a message permanently, by clicking Delete Forever in Spam or Trash, it is not possible to recover the message. It is also impossible to recover messages after an administrator deletes a user's account.  For more information, please see the archiving section of the FAQ's.

Connecting to Gmail via EMail Clients and Mobile Devices

Google Apps for HLS allows you to connect to your Gmail account through a variety of e-mail clients and mobile devices. For detailed instructions on how to connect to Google Apps for HLS via the IMAP protocol (recommended), click on the link to your device from the links below:

• Apple Mail 4
• Thunderbird 3
• Windows Mail
• Outlook 2007
• iPhone
• Android
• BlackBerry

 Migrating your data

If you are using another Google account, whether it is a personal Google account or a Google account associated with HLS, you will probably want to migrate some, if not all, of your data (documents, calendars, email, etc.) into Google Apps for HLS. Migrating data is mostly a manual endeavor, but the following links below will step you through the process.

• The Data Liberation Front
  A central location for on how to move data into and out of Google products. It is run by a group of Google engineers, and has detailed instructions on how to import and export your data.
• Migrate data between Google Apps accounts
  From the Google Apps Administration site, this page offers a quick summary of how to migrate data. Not as detailed as The Data Liberation front.
• Lifehacker
  The Lifehacker web site has several great articles and videos on how to migrate data, including "How to Migrate Your Entire Google Account to a New One,"How Can I Migrate My Google Data from One Account to Another?" and "How to Migrate Email from One Gmail Account to Another."