Information Technology Services is counting down the days until spring with a Digital Spring-Cleaning Challenge to clear up UWindsor OneDrives and Outlook accounts in advance of the upcoming Microsoft storage changes.
One way to reduce storage is to review your OneDrive for personal files. Look for files such as photos, videos, screenshot, and large documents; if they are not used for professional and academic matters move them to external hard drives or personal cloud storage like Google Drive or iCloud. If they are no longer relevant, delete them.
Refer to the Microsoft Storage Knowledge-Base articles for more information on how to clean up digital storage.
Be sure to sign up for the Digital Spring-Cleaning Challenge for a chance to win a $50 UWinCash gift card.
As a reminder, beginning April 7, the following storage limits will be implemented:
|
Microsoft App |
Employee |
Student |
Retiree |
Alumni |
|
OneDrive |
20 GB |
5 GB |
10 GB |
N/A |
|
Outlook Mailbox |
10 GB |
5 GB |
1 GB |
5 GB |
In addition, Teams and SharePoint sites will also be limited to 25 GB of storage and shared mailboxes will be limited to 20GB.
If you are currently using more than the allotted storage amounts for your account type listed above, you will need to start reducing duplicate and redundant data in your UWindsor Outlook email account and OneDrive to get below the threshold. Users who may require more than the allotted quota for work, academic, or research purposes can submit a request to IT Services for review.