An announcement from Information Technology Services:
O365 with OneDrive for Business
O365 for Microsoft Office and OneDrive for Business is now available to faculty and staff. For students, OneDrive for Business has now been added to O365.
What is OneDrive for Business?
OneDrive for Business gives you one place to store, share and sync your work or school files and currently offers 1TB of storage space.
As part of Niagara College’s Office 365 subscription, you can save your files in OneDrive and then work with them from almost any device.
Note: OneDrive for Business is different from OneDrive (for consumers), which is intended for personal storage separate from your workplace.
Sign in to Office 365 with your work or school account at portal.microsoftonline.com so you can:
• Upload files from your PC or Mac.
• Share files with others.
• Give others permission to edit files and work on them at the same time.
• Get to your files from anywhere, on your computer, tablet or phone.
• Sync OneDrive for Business to your PC or Mac, so you can access your files even when you’re offline.
O365 Now Offers a New Password Reset Feature
The first time you sign in to O365 with your work or school account, you will be prompted to add information to your account so you don’t lose access if you ever forget your password or if your account has been locked out from invalid attempts. You can provide a mobile phone number and/or an alternate email address to verify. If you forget your password or your account has been locked out, just select “Can’t access your account?” from the O365 sign in page. Depending on the information previously entered, it will offer you the options to text or call your mobile phone or email an alternate email address for verification to reset your password. Remember to first forget any Wi-Fi connections on mobile devices which use your username and password before changing your password, otherwise it will try repeatedly to connect with your old password and lock your account. More information is available on the ITS website under Password Management its.niagaracollege.ca .
For employees with college issued mobile phones, the mobile number is prepopulated for your convenience.
Note: Niagara College ITS or other Niagara College staff will never send unsolicited requests for your College username, passwords or other personal information via email or text. Messages requesting such information are always fraudulent and should just be deleted. These messages are referred to as “phishing” or “spear phishing” and are attempts to obtain unauthorized access to your account.
Using OneDrive for Business at Niagara College
OneDrive for Business is managed by the College, same as other network file storage on premise.
For students:
OneDrive for Business is where you store your files. It replaces the H: Home drive for students used in school years 20015/16 and earlier. All content from H: drives was automatically migrated to OneDrive for Business where possible. Folder and file names containing more than 256 characters could not be automatically migrated. In addition, files with invalid or non-English characters could not be automatically moved. These files have been added to a zip archive titled FilesWithIssues_
For employees:
OneDrive for Business is a new storage space. It replaces the C: drive Documents folder if you saved content locally on your PC. Continue to use the G: drive and N: drive as appropriate for shared content with your department, groups and College.
Need Help on Using OneDrive for Business?
Information and videos on how to use OneDrive are available on the ITS website under Self Help its.niagaracollege.ca . Please note all sharing and restoring of folders and files is self managed. The College does not back up your folders and files stored in OneDrive for Business.
If you have any questions or require further information, please contact the ITS Helpdesk [email protected] or call 905-735-2211 ext. 7642.
