This is the cloud storage platform of choice for Penn State employees. Sharing with Penn State is as easy as knowing their name. OneDrive provides practically unlimited storage for your Excel sheets, Word Documents, PDFs, Powerpoints and any other multimedia files you may use. Office 365 incorporates an entire suite of applications that allow for easy sharing and collaboration with others at Penn State. The following cloud storage platforms are available for your use. These services are all provided free of charge and are easy to use. The OneDrive app can also give you local copies of selected files and folders from a Microsoft Teams file repository.Penn State has agreements with various cloud storage platforms that all staff, faculty, and students can utilize. The OneDrive app (available for PC, Mac, and mobile devices) let’s you keep local copies of the files and folders you choose, so you can work on them offline, without the need for an Internet connection.It’s available easily from anywhere on any device! No VPN is required to access OneDrive or Teams.OneDrive has a 1-terabyte (1024 gigabyte) limit! Teams is nearly unlimited in the amount of space you can use for departmental-level collaboration and file sharing. Your “P” drive has a 5-gigabyte storage limit. OneDrive and Microsoft Teams lets you store a lot more stuff.Now you can easily perform these tasks – instantly - whenever the need arises. None of this was possible with “P” drive or department level file sharing without creating a support ticket with ITS and waiting for that ticket to be processed. If you want to share something, you decide the who’s, what’s, and for how long’s yourself.

If you accidentally delete a document or save a version you wish you hadn’t, you can restore files or revert them to previously saved versions yourself. Both OneDrive and Teams bring administration tasks down to the user level.

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