General Information about Spartan Drive

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What is Spartan Drive?

Spartan Drive is MSU's version of Microsoft One Drive. All faculty, staff, and students that are on the CampusAD Domain will have access to 5 TB of storage (with a maximum file size of 250GB) on Spartan Drive which is accessible over the web, desktop, tablet or other mobile device. 

Acceptable Use

While this product has been approved as HIPAA-compliant, it should not be used to store confidential data (social security numbers, credit cards, bank data and more). Information about confidential data at Michigan State is provided in the MSU Institutional Data Policy.

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Availability

  • Spartan Drive is available to individual accounts for faculty, staff and students of Michigan State University.
  • Spartan Drive is not available to purchased departmental/unit accounts.
  • If an MSU employee leaves the university and their unit requests that their account to be deleted, the one drive account is transferred to their supervisor of record.

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Sharing

Spartan Drive files can be shared with individuals at MSU or other specific people you indicate by email address.

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Logging In

Go to portal.office.com and login with your MSU NetID and password and then click on OneDrive. You may need to click the "waffle menu" at the top left before OneDrive will show as an option (see screenshot below).

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After logging in you can:

  • View files and photos you stored in Spartan Drive.
  • Create documents on your computer and edit on your laptop, phone, or tablet.
  • Share files and photos with others.
  • Collaborate with friends on your Office documents at the same time.

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Previous Versions and Deleted Files

Spartan Drive is configured so that up to 500 previous iterations of a file can be saved and retrieved from the network with no expiration date. Files deleted from Spartan Drive will remain in the Recycling Bin for up to 93 days. If you empty the Recycle Bin, the files will only be recoverable by an Admin, and even then only up to the original 93 day expiration date.

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Training and Useful Links

 

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How to Check Your Spartan Drive Quota
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If you are attempting to share a Spartan Drive file with someone at MSU (@msu.edu email address) and you receive a message that "xxx@msu.edu is outside of your organization. You can share the file to this individual but the person will not be able to login to Spartan Drive to view and/or edit the file.
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Spartan 365 - How to Change What Folders from Spartan Drive are Synced to Your Windows 10 Machine
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Spartan Mail and related Spartan 365 software, including applications located at https://spartan365.msu.edu and downloaded Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook), are provided to students while they attend the university and to faculty and staff members while they are employed by the university.