Change Your Password in Outlook Web App / Access
Password requirements
Passwords must be at least 9 characters long and contain at least two of the following
types of characters: alphabetical upper/lower case (A-Z/a-z), numerals (0-9), punctuation marks.
They must also be sufficiently different from any dictionary word, from your username and from the most recent five or so
previous passwords (where "sufficiently different" depends on a complicated algorithm).
Passwords are set to expire after six months (183 days, to be precise). If you use Outlook Web Access to read your
E-mail, you will get a warning of impending expiration starting about two weeks in advance, as you also would if you
log in to a PHY-AST domain Windows system in the BPS Bldg. Other methods of reading E-mail will not automatically
warn you that your password will expire soon, so make a note of the date.
If you have let your password expire, OWA will still let you log in (if it is running on an
Exchange Server 2010 system with Service Pack 1 installed and the appropriate server setting
selected, such as ours has), and will force you to change to a new password immediately, in much
the same way as the login screen of a PHY-AST Windows domain system does when you're sitting in
front of it here in the BPS Bldg. at MSU.
Versions of Outlook Web App & Access:
- Outlook Web App:
Current webmail version for Internet Explorer 7 and above, Firefox 3 and above, Safari 4 and above
- Outlook Web App Light version:
Current webmail version for other browsers, may be chosen optionally on any browser
- Outlook Web Access:
Old version for Internet Explorer 7 and above; our Exchange Server no longer provides this, but we'll keep the instructions around for a bit
- Outlook Web Access Light version:
Old version for other browsers - very similar to Outlook Web App Light
Step 1:
- Open your browser and go to https://exchange.pa.msu.edu/owa/
- If your browser supports the full Outlook Web App, the "Use the Light version of Outlook Web App" checkbox can be
unchecked if it's checked already; if it's checked, but greyed out to prevent unchecking, then your browser does not
support it and you have to use the Light version.
- Log in
Step 2:
- Click on "Options" at the top right of the page
Step 3:
- Select either "Change your password" on the lower right or "Settings" on the left side of the page
Step 4:
- If you had selected "Settings", now select the "Password" tab on the top of the row of tabs; if you had selected "Change your password", it should already be selected
- Follow the instructions on the page
- Be sure to hit the Save button in the lower right (next to the large checkmark icon)
Step 1:
- Open your browser and go to https://exchange.pa.msu.edu/owa/
- If your browser supports the full Outlook Web App, the "Use the Light version of Outlook Web App" checkbox can be
checked to go into the Light version if it's not checked already; if it's checked, but greyed out to prevent unchecking, then your browser does not
support it and you have to use the Light version anyway.
- Log in
Step 2:
Step 1:
Step 2:
- Click on "Options" at the top right of the page
Step 3:
- Select "Change Password" on left left side of the page
- Follow the instructions on the page
- Be sure to hit the Save button in the top left
(above the "keys" icon next to where it says "Change Password")
Step 1:
- Open Firefox (or the browser you are using) and go to https://exchange.pa.msu.edu/owa/
- The "Use Outlook Web Access Light" checkbox will be checked, either automatically or because you checked it
- Log in
- Click on "Options" at the top right of the page
Step 3:
- Select "Change Password" on left left side of the page
- Follow the instructions on the page
- Be sure to hit the Save button in the top left
(above the "keys" icon next to where it says "Change Password")
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