As a current Dawson student, you have an official Dawson College email address Username: firstname.lastname[at]dawsoncollege.qc.ca Password: Your Dawson *network password. *The network password is used to login to the computers on campus. If firstname.lastname[at]dawsoncollege.qc.ca doesn’t work please try the Student Email Finder Microsoft 365 As a current Dawson student, you also have access to Microsoft 365 applications for your…

Spam are unsolicited, usually mass-produced messages. Dawson emails are protected with Microsoft EOP, which also blocks the viruses from email attachments. All emails from the College are duly signed, that we never ask for your password, provide a link to change your password, etc. Spam goes to your Junk E-mail folder. In Outlook, right-clicking, ‘junk…

There is a relatively new type of virus called ransomware which as it name implies ask for a ransom after performing a malicious action, which is often to encrypt every file it can access from your account (e.g. the network drives). You typically get infected executing an email attachment, or an infected encrypted file. If…

These are actual samples of phishing emails received at the College. Please note this list is by no means exhaustive, i.e. if you are unsure about the legitimacy of an email, please contact the Helpdesk. January 2020 How to tell it is phishing: The email, although pretending to come from a Dawson colleague, has a…

(this article was adapted from UMass Amherst) What is Phishing? Phishing refers to different types of online scams that ‘phish’ for  your information such as passwords, social insurance number, bank account information, credit card numbers, etc. These messages claim to come from a legitimate source, sometimes even the College or a friend! They may fake…

Outlook on the Web is the Web client replacing Outlook Web Access (OWA). Access and activation To access Outlook on the Web go to https://outlook.office365.com. Upon first launch you will be asked to answer a few questions to set your preferences. Make sure you choose the correct timezone (as the default is sometimes wrong), otherwise…

E-mail spoofing is a term used to describe fraudulent e-mail activity in which the sender address and other parts of the e-mail header are altered to appear as though the e-mail originated from a different source (from Wikipedia). If you have received undelivered emails warnings regarding email you never sent, it is possible you are the…

College employees and students have an e-mail account with domain dawsoncollege.qc.ca with Microsoft 365. E-mails were migrated to Microsoft 365 in Fall 2017. See a document on how to use your email account and compose emails. For more details on using Outlook see the Email User Guide .

All_Dawson is used to send official messages to all employees. It is typically used by secretaries or managers for notifications of academic events, interruptions of services, etc. Employees cannot opt out of this distribution list. Only managers and their secretaries may send to . Try to have the content as text in the body of…