An important part of this process is the clean up of years of accounts whtat don't properly match. With Office 365 Omega will have synchronization between email accounts and network login. For must people the network login is your first initial and last name. So if your name is John Smith your login will be jsmith. In the past we had to use the wonky DOMAIN\jsmith vernacular to login which was caused by an incorrect install when the network was initially built. Going forward you will be able to use jsmith@omega-usa.com instead. You can still use the old way but you can now login with your correct user name.
With office 365 you will be able to carry over this login to email. This will give you a single username and password across all Omega systems. We will not take away your old email addresses or stop your from logging in with DOMAIN\jsmith, but you can start using a sing sign on when you are ready.
The clean up today is required to get everyone set with the proper user names across systems. if you are one of the hand full of users with a network login that is not your first initial and last name then you will keep your login and your email login will be your network login with @omega-usa.com at the end. Primarily these users will be the people who were here since the beginning and your login will be your first name. Thus is you login as john instead of jsmith your new email login will be john@omega-usa.com. This needs to be fixed in the future and we will work directly with these users to get their login changed when it's convenient for them.
An additional clean up that we are making is to align every users email reply-to address to the new usernames. Most users currently have their reply-to address as first.last@omega-usa.com. Since this adds confusion, we have make the default reply-to address the same as you login and it will look like jsmith@omega-usa.com. Your old email addresses will still work correctly and you are welcome to change your reply-to address if you would like. Note that the users with user names that are different (like first name only) will also notice that we have set their reply-to address at their first initial and last name just like everyone else. This will put the pieces in place to change their user name when they are ready.