How to prepare for expiration of your NetID

When you leave CSU, you should prepare for the expiration and removal of your NetID, email and other CSU accounts.

CSU Microsoft 365 and Google accounts are permanently deleted 30 days after NetID expiration and cannot be recovered.

Applicable to:

Your NetID must be in the Expiration Cycle. (You will receive email notifications that your NetID is expiring starting 30 days before expiration.)

Automatically forward your emails to your new email address while your NetID account is still active. See instructions for Microsoft Outlook or Gmail.
Set an automatic reply to inform others of your new email address while your NetID account is still active. See instructions for Microsoft Outlook or Gmail.
(Forwarding and automatic replies will end when your account expires.)
Change your social media and commercial accounts to use a non-CSU email address for second factor login and account recovery. Otherwise you might someday find that you are locked out of your accounts.

Download or transfer to other systems any existing CSU content you want to keep, such as email messages, drive files, and contacts. See instructions for Microsoft 365 or Google.
Note that files and folders in your OneDrive folder that are currently being synced with your CSU OneDrive account will no longer be available when your NetID expires, so they should be moved outside of your OneDrive folder. Also see Transfer files to your personal OneDrive with the Mover Transfer Wizard.
For transferring OneNote, see Export and import OneNote notebooks.
Log in to your downloaded Microsoft applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.) with a non-CSU Microsoft 365 account.

CSU Alumni and former students should create a RAMrecords ID to access their personal records.
CSU Alumni can create a Gmail account for CSU Alumni.

Once your NetID is reactivated or the expiration date has been extended, you will have access to your NetID and Microsoft 365 account until your new expiration date.
If you are not returning to CSU, review instructions for preparing to close your CSU accounts.