The clock is ticking for Personal network drives

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The migration from Personal network drives to OneDrive is a project that will make accessing and organizing your work and personal information so much easier.  While Personal network drives have been the way to go thus far, the pandemic proved that we need to be on the go, collaborate frequently, and set permissions efficiently. All this and more is possible with OneDrive, making it the perfect solution to store personal information related to work.

The migration project was launched in the summer of 2022. While the primary goal is to move from personal network drives to OneDrive, we are also encouraging information management best practices and getting rid of clutter (for instance, duplicates or unnecessary files). 

"To facilitate the migration from Personal network drives to OneDrive for the Telfer School of Management, our team opted for a hands-on approach.  By working closely with the project team, we coordinated communication efforts and made them the most efficient for our users.  We mandated our users to review their data to ensure that whatever was moved to OneDrive was not corporate data.  Besides exporting 1,5 TB of personal network drive data to OneDrive and our review of 321 home-folders, we had an ambitious goal of personally following up with all our active users to review their data migrations had been successful. We successfully completed the migration of all this data by October 31, 2022." - Philip Beaulieu, Manager, IT Support Services, Telfer School of Management

Personal network drives will be set to read-only starting December 7, 2022.  This means after this date, you will still be able to access your information, but you will no longer be able to save documents to this drive. 

For more information, consult the Personal Network Drive to OneDrive Migration project site or contact Sanaa Belkouch, the project manager of this initiative.