Extra Storage and File Sharing

Drexel offers three services aimed at providing you with a place to your put files and to share them with colleagues. Drexel OneDrive, a part of Office 365, provides you with ten to twenty times the space of the drive in your computer and lets you access it from anywhere. Microsoft Teams provides web-accessible, shared file space for groups of people working together. The University File Servers, the oldest technology offered, continue to provide space that's accessible from campus.

OneDrive: recommended for your files

OneDrive provides you with additional storage capacity -- 5 TB for each of us -- that can be accessed from your computers, tablets, and phones. Files can be access from the web and can shared with others at and outside of Drexel. When Office files are stored in OneDrive, they are saved in a special way that lets you recover older versions, even if you forgot to "save as" with a new name. Better yet, OneDrive offers a backup option that keeps copies of your Desktop, Documents, and Pictures folders in the cloud so that you can access them even if your computer breaks and recovery them if it is lost, stolen, or if you become the victim of ransomware.

The Drexel IT Service Catalog has a OneDrive description and instructions for getting started with it.

OneDrive is accessible through the OneDrive app for Android, iPhone, iPad, macOS and Windows as well as the OneDrive on Office 365 website.

Teams: recommended for collaboration

In addition to its chat and meeting features, Teams offers file storage space for student, faculty, and professional staff who are collaborating on a project, committee, or class. For more information, click the Teams tab above.  

Visit our Teams pages to learn how the basics or the Microsoft Teams site for more detailed information.

Microsoft has published over a dozen Teams training videos for using it effectively.

Teams is accessible through the Teams app as well as teams.microsoft.com.

University File Server: no longer recommended 

The University File Server is being maintained even though it is being supplanted by OneDrive, as a place for each person's Drexel-related files, and Teams, as a place for files used in collaboration.

It can be accessed only from the Drexel networks. To use it you must be:

• on-campus and connected to the network via a wired network jack or to the DragonFly3 wireless network
• off-campus and connected to the Drexel VPN.

Visit our University File Server pages to learn more about the service and how to get started with it.