If you have a personal, consumer version of OneDrive, it will appear as “OneDrive – Personal”.Your BU OneDrive will appear in Office Save/Open dialogues as “OneDrive – Boston University”.What’s the difference between OneDrive (the consumer version) and OneDrive for Business (your BU OneDrive)? You may already have a standalone consumer version OneDrive, or one that came as part of a personal Office 365 subscription, e.g., one that came with a new computer.You should do this one time to initialize your BU OneDrive before trying to access it from inside an Office application such as Word. Once you are logged in to Office 365, click on the “waffle” icon just to the left of the words “Office 365” in the top navigation bar to display the app launcher and then click on the “OneDrive” button. The first time you log in, Office 365 will begin to provision your Personal Site. Once you are licensed for Office 365/SharePoint Online, you can access your BU OneDrive using the login instructions for SharePoint Online. Learn more about OneDrive for Business on the following pages, which include brief videos and answers to common questions: OneDrive for Business – Online File Sharing and What is OneDrive for Business? You can also view a series of brief video tutorials. You can also share files and folders with people both inside and outside Boston University. You can synchronize files you store in the cloud to multiple personal computers and access them from a wide variety of mobile devices.

It is part of your SharePoint Personal Site, located in BU’s tenant in Microsoft’s cloud-based Office 365. Your BU OneDrive is an implementation of Microsoft’s OneDrive for Business. a SharePoint team site) – see our pages on SharePoint and Notes for SharePoint Site Collection Administrators for more information. For group or departmental sharing you should instead apply for a SharePoint site collection (a.k.a. Only your personal account is eligible for a BU OneDrive - shared accounts are not eligible.

Access to Office Online – Web-based versions of all the applications in the Microsoft Office suite.

A personal BU OneDrive – One Terabyte of space where you can store your “personal work files” and selectively share them with others.

As part of your access to Office 365/SharePoint Online, faculty and staff also receive

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