Account Information for Staff:

Use of McCombs information technology resources is governed by the rules and polices of the University of Texas at Austin. You can find a useful summary of these rules, and your responsibilities as a consumer of IT resources, at http://www.utexas.edu/its/policies/responsible.html. For more comprehensive information about the University policies governing the use of information technology see the following website: http://www.utexas.edu/its/policies/.

Violations of the McCombs or University Acceptable Use Policy may result in the suspension of access to resources and/or disciplinary action by the College, Office of the Dean of Students, or the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost.

General Guidelines:

Who is eligible?

Domain Accounts are created for all persons with a Classified or A&P appointment to a department of the McCombs School of Business as well as student workers assigned to McCombs.

Note: Email and other electronic files stored on University computers are generally considered property of the University of Texas and can be subject to open records requests. Staff are discouraged from using their McCombs email and other IT resources for personal correspondence or other personal purposes.

When are they created and when do they expire?

Staff accounts are created automatically when when an appointment is approved by HR and updated in the mainframe. Accounts expire when the appointment ends. With the approval of the Dean's Office, accounts can be created early for incoming staff who have not yet been appointed or extended for departing staff members.

What happens when I leave?

Departing (Retiring or Resigning) Staff: To facilitate the transition to a new email account, McCombs mail services will be provided for 30 days after the date of separation. . Access to all other network resources will end on the date of separation. This period may be extended or shortened at the request of the Department Head to the Senior Associate Dean. Continued email access after 30 days or email forwarding will require the approval of the Senior Associate Dean and will only be granted in exceptional cases where it is clearly in the school’s interest to do so.