Dear Campus Community:

The UMSL ITS Cloud Storage Support Team would like to thank you for your participation in the project for the transition of data from department shared drives to Microsoft Teams. We appreciate your work and efforts in the transfer of the data from shared drives to Microsoft Teams.

Over the past few weeks, the UMSL ITS Cloud Storage Support Team has been working with identified primary contacts in your area on the migration of department shared drives to Microsoft Teams. These drives are prefixed with “sh_” and would typically have any of them mapped to a drive letter (e.g. “N:”). There is still some time left to transfer your department’s data before the September 30th deadline.

Below are a few important details for you and your team members to prepare for project completion for data on shared drives.

• If you do not know who your department or area’s primary contact is, please email cloudstoragesupport@umsl.edu for contact identification.
• ITS is recommending that all files/data be transferred to Microsoft Teams.
• Think about what you would like to do with your data and if it is still needed. Please collaborate with your other department members.
• If you have moved data already, please double check and confirm that all of your files/data transferred to Microsoft Teams.
• For data of employees no longer with the university, please refer to your supervisor on how to proceed with the data.

The Cloud Storage Support Team has provided a page of Frequently Asked Questions to help guide you and your group with this process. We are also available via email at cloudstoragesupport@umsl.edu to answer additional questions that you may have about this transition.

Data/files left in department drives will not be accessible after the September 30, 2021 deadline.