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Over the next year, Buffalo State College’s Information Technology (IT) will begin moving department shared drives to SharePoint Online. The IT team is looking for departments interested in becoming “early adopters” for this project. Some of the benefits of moving to SharePoint are

• increased security: Microsoft uses disk and file encryption for all data stored in SharePoint,
• increased reliability: Versioning allows you to easily restore previous versions of files,
• increased accessibility: Easily access and collaborate on files from on or off campus.

If you decide to volunteer, a member of the IT team will contact your office to review the process, answer questions, and schedule the move. At that point, a new SharePoint Online site will be created for your office, and member access to this new site will mirror access to the department shared drive.

To minimize disruption, the file transfer from the department drive to SharePoint will be scheduled on a Friday outside of normal business hours. Expect the file transfer process to take 12 to 36 hours, depending on the volume of data being transferred.

Once the file transfer begins, the original shared drive will no longer be accessible. Members with access will receive a Welcome to the GRP-Department Name group message when the transfer is complete. Follow these steps to access the new SharePoint site. 

If your office is interested in becoming an early adopter for this project, please complete this Qualtrics form. Once the form is received, our team will contact your department with next steps.

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