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Fileshare.msu.edu is a file share service that can be purchased by MSU units and used as general file share space. Many units will use this space to setup user (u:) drives for each staff member and a shared (s:) drive for their staff. Space can be purchased in increments as small as 250GB for $100/year. When deciding your space needs please note that this space will include the snapshot backups. For more information please contact the IT Service Desk at (517)432-6200).


Michigan State University’s IT Council created the AD Governance Committee to establish policies and best practices for the Campus Active Directory, Office 365 and Fileshare that will ensure their usability and long term stability.

The committee has established standards for the use of fileshare.msu.edu.

  • Department shares need to use the CampusAD OU department name.
  • Departments can get a encrypted share witch would have a sec prefix before the OU name.
    • For example SECitservices for the itservices OU.

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Getting Started

If you do not currently have an organizational unit in CampusAD, the first step is to create an organizational unit and take training for managing your organizational unit and becoming a local administrator in CampusAD.

When you are ready to place a request for storage please contact the IT Service Desk and provide:

  • Desired name of the top level share (required: OU name, i.e. fileshare.msu.edu/itservices)
  • Size for the share (in 250GB Blocks)
  • Administration CampusAD security group that going to control the top level file shares
    • Recommended: Create a Security Group called OUNAME.SG.FileshareAdmin as a universal security group or something similar and add the desired members to that group.
  • How many users are going to be accessing that share if you have that information?
  • Contact information for the person responsible for that share name, phone number and email?

This service can be mapped automatically to computers that are joined to CampusAD as users login. Information about this and other related information is located below.

The service keeps daily snapshots of the data. Those snapshots are kept for 30 days with a weekly snapshop at 12am on Sunday. The weekly snapshots are kept for 90 days. Previous versions of files can be retrieved directly by end users using the steps listed in the related article below. 

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Additional Information

Instructions to map a drive to connect to fileshare.msu.edu:

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