Afterward, anything not backed up will be lost permanently. Please contact Penn State IT to facilitate any data retrievals. Microsoft can retrieve data from these accounts within 30 days after access has expired. We encourage anyone who is leaving the University to backup all files previously saved in these applications to avoid losing their data. While the ESM tech contacts may act as liaisons to ITS and NCTS, please understand that they do not have direct control over these accounts or servers. You may make changes to your account through. These access limitations are being implemented to help Penn State IT to ensure compliance with our Microsoft contract. The Penn State Access email system is run by Microsoft Office 365 and is in the form. See the 'I’m Leaving or Have Left the University' section at for more details.) (When your Access Account expires depends upon your affiliation.

You will continue to have access to your Outlook Web Access and your inbox until your Penn State Access Account expires.

Students, faculty, or staff that leave Penn State will lose access to all work and files saved in applications like Teams, OneNote, OneDrive, SharePoint and all other Office 365 apps other than Outlook Web Access 14 days after their departure.

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