Penn Vet Class of 2017,
Congratulations on your acceptance to Penn Vet and welcome to the Penn Vet community. All Penn Vet students are provided with an email account and class mailing list services, personal network storage, antivirus software, Web portal access to academic and administrative services, access to digital curriculum, Help Desk support, network connectivity throughout our campuses, and access to computing lab facilities.
You will be hearing more about these services in the months ahead.
For now we will be providing you access to email. The school uses Zimbra Collaboration Suite (Zimbra). Zimbra integrates email, contacts, and shared calendars as one product. Zimbra also integrates and synchronizes calendaring and email with most handhelds and PDAs. All Penn Vet affiliates will have 1000MB of storage on Zimbra .
To create your email account, please visit:
https://services.zimbra.upenn.edu/accountservices/
At this website, you will be required to authenticate with your PennKey username and password. If you are unsure of your PennKey username and password, please visit the following website for help on resetting your PennKey username and password: http://www.upenn.edu/computing/pennkey/setreset/. If you encounter problems creating your Penn Vet email account, i.e. you can't authenticate with your Pennkey Username and password, or you get an error message, Please contact the Penn Vet IT Help Desk.
Once you have created your email address, you can check your email by visiting and authenticating with your PennKey username and password at: http://zimbra.upenn.edu
Please let us know if you have other questions. We welcome your questions as you make your summer and fall campus move-in plans. For any information about information technology at Penn Vet, feel free to call the IT Group Help Desk in Philadelphia at (215) 573-4236 or email us at phl-help@vet.upenn.edu.
Once again, congratulations on your decision to attend Penn. We look forward to seeing you at your orientation.