FAQ's

Microsoft OneDrive offers the same individual storage capabilities as Box, including the ability to collaborate in real time on files and accessibility from any computer, mobile device, or web browser. Collaboration and communication services from OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams bring additional value beyond what is currently available with Box.

Because of the tight integration of Microsoft products, the benefits to switching to OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams come from being able to do things like collaborate on the downloaded client of office apps like Word and Excel, which offers more functionality than the web version. You can also be signed into multiple OneDrive accounts locally on your machine through the app at the same time, which may be useful if you use a personal OneDrive account or have a cross-campus role.

All University of Nebraska students, faculty (including emeriti) and staff will have access to OneDrive and SharePoint. 

If you’re working on a personal file, save it to OneDrive. Your OneDrive files are private unless you share them with others. If you’re already working as a team in Microsoft Teams or SharePoint, you should save your files where your team works. Since all files shared with you can be accessed from OneDrive, you can also start a document in your OneDrive and move it to a SharePoint folder shared with you.

You can access both private files and team files through the OneDrive desktop, mobile and web apps. 

To access OneDrive through your web browser, go to portal.office365.com.  

If you are using a university-managed computer, you can download the OneDrive app from your software portal. You can also go to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/onedrive/download and download the application.

The mobile version of the app can be download through your phone's app store. 

Box Collaboration Levels – https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/360044196413-Understanding-Collaborator-Permission-Levels

One Drive Permission Levels – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/sites/user-permissions-and-permission-levels

All common file types are supported with OneDrive and SharePoint. Learn more at https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/file-types-supported-for-previewing-files-in-onedrive-sharepoint-and-teams-e054cd0f-8ef2-4ccb-937e-26e37419c5e4?ui=en-us&rs=en-gb&ad=gb

For file size limits, depending on the web browser you use, you can upload files up to 100GB in size. (This limit is per file, not total.) For more information, see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/upload-photos-and-files-to-onedrive-b00ad3fe-6643-4b16-9212-de00ef02b586

Everyone starts with a 1TB quota for OneDrive. ITS can increase this to up to 25TB for a user by request. SharePoint has 25TB of storage. If the user or department needs more than 25TB, please contact boxmigrationsupport@nebraska.edu.

With OneDrive online, you can restore previous and deleted versions of a file for up to 30 days. Please see below for instructions on restoring files in OneDrive online.

• Restore a previous version of a file stored in OneDrive

• Restore deleted files or folders in OneDrive

• Restore your entire OneDrive

As with other service contracts, NU’s contract with Microsoft includes privacy protections that prevent the unauthorized (and unlawful) access, sharing, or monetization of NU data stored through these cloud services. NU’s contracts provide greater privacy protections than the user agreement from personal Microsoft accounts. In addition, we have a Business Associates Agreement with Microsoft to cover HIPAA data storage. 

We are currently working to have a Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 3 compliant environment for University Research data.

Yes, SharePoint will have similar functionality to Box for Research. ITS will retain current security levels and through Microsoft’s Data Loss Prevention, coupled with tagging, we will be increasing security. This will allow us to have security not only on the folder level but also at the file level.

Start cleaning out your Box folders now. Take some time to delete unnecessary files and remove yourself, or your team, from shared items that you no longer need. When you are finished cleaning, remember to empty Box trash.

ITS will utilize a tool to simplify the migration of data from Box to OneDrive and SharePoint. Private data will be migrated to OneDrive, shared or team data will be migrated to SharePoint. More information on these tools and the process will be available soon.

Users will be notified before their data is moved. During the transition, they should avoid making changes to Box files to ensure all data is moved correctly. Users will be notified when they can access their files on OneDrive.

Existing data within OneDrive will be retained, and will not be overwritten or deleted.

For departmental accounts, continue to access those files in Box until the initial migration is completed. After that, ITS will migrate any files that were changed during the initial migration.

All known and supported file types will be migrated, see https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/file-types-supported-for-previewing-files-in-onedrive-sharepoint-and-teams-e054cd0f-8ef2-4ccb-937e-26e37419c5e4?ui=en-us&rs=en-gb&ad=gb

Box Notes will be migrated and converted to Word documents. 

Yes, data stored in Shared and Departmental Box accounts will be moved to the corresponding SharePoint site for the specific team or area. New SharePoint sites can also be created by request. ITS will work with your team or department to create a plan for the migration of your data after July 1, 2020.

Internal collaborators will be migrated. This includes UNK to UNK, UNL to UNL, UNO to UNO, NE to NE. Any external collaborators, including between NU campuses or shared links, will need to be re-invited and re-created.

Manila-colored folders are your personal, unshared Box folders and will be moved to your OneDrive. 

Blue folders are shared folders. If the Owner is a departmental account (e.g. DeptName-Box, zz.box.DeptName), those will be moved to SharePoint.  If it’s owned by a user, it will be moved to their OneDrive account.

Grey folders are owned by someone outside of your Box instance and will remain in Box.

Our migration tool will be able to migrate up to 100 versions for each file currently stored within Box.

Existing box.com shared links will need to be re-created in OneDrive or SharePoint as new links.

These files will need to be re-aligned and re-linked by the responsible person or teams.

If all of your data has been migrated and you no longer need your Box account, send an email to support@nebraska.edu and request that your Box account be changed to read only or deleted. Your Box account will be deleted automatically when the service is deprovisioned.