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MU IT Services offer you a number of different services for file storage and file sharing. You can use these services to save your files, keep a backup of your files and share files with other people.

What File Storage is available?

Storage Comparison

	Departmental Shares	Personal Drive (X:)	Microsoft Teams	OneDrive
What is this Service?	Departmental File Shares are an on campus storage space for staff within a department to share documents with each other.	Staff and students are provided with a personal storage space for files for their own use.	Microsoft Teams is an online collaboration space where files can be stored and shared between team members. It integrates and is part of Office365.	OneDrive is an online file storage space that is personal to you.
How much storage is available?	5GB	2GB	2TB or 2048GB	1TB or 1024GB
Benefits	Basic file storage area for onsite document storage.	Self-restore of any deleted files is available.	Teams are created and managed by MU students and staff, it is fully integrated in to Office 365 and straightforward to add/remove MU colleagues as needed. It provides an excellent collaboratibe space with chat feature.	Integrated with Office 365, files can be shared with MU staff if needed.
Available when off campus or on mobile devices?	No	No	Yes. Use Teams App or Office365 portal.	Yes. Use OneDrive App or Office365 portal.
Can files be shared with other MU users?	Yes - request should be logged with IT Services to add/remove MU staff to access the file share.	No	Yes, Team owners can add or remove other MU users.	Yes, individual files or folders can be shared but not the whole OneDrive
Can data be shared with non MU users?	No	No	Yes, Team owners can invite external users (by email) to be part of the Team.	Yes, links to individual files or folders can be shared with external users.
Is this service accessible from Moodle?	No	No	No	Yes
Who has access to this service?	MU Staff	MU Staff and Students	MU Staff and Students	MU Staff and Students