OneDrive for Business

The file storage area is hosted on Microsoft servers as part of the Office365 service and administered by York St John University staff. 

No they aren't the same thing. OneDrive for Business and OneDrive are different and separate services.

OneDrive for Business is cloud storage intended for University purposes to use while you are a student or member of staff at York St John. It allows you to access your files on and off campus and to share and collaborate with other York St John students and staff. Your OneDrive for Business account can only be accessed using your York St John email address and password.

OneDrive is personal cloud storage that often comes free with a personal Microsoft account (e.g. with Hotmail or Outlook live accounts). This is completely separate to your York St John OneDrive for Business account and cannot link to it.

If you are having trouble logging into your York St John OneDrive for Business account because you've got a personal OneDrive account please contact support@yorksj.ac.uk for advice.

OneDrive for Business (as part of Office365) is as secure as systems hosted on campus. It is hosted by Microsoft in a secure Office365 tenancy.

York St John University has signed up to use Office365 under JANET's terms and conditions. This provides Europe-wide security and data protection.

Under the agreement, Microsoft have agreed to meet JANET's more restrictive conditions. This helps to meet UK Data Protection requirements.

In addition, Office365 is verified to meet the requirements specified in ISO 27001, European Union (EU) Model Clauses, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Business Associate Agreement (HIPAA BAA), and the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).

Each user can recover their own deleted items for up to 90 days from the OneDrive for Business recycle bin. After 90 days any files in the OneDrive for Business recycle bin are permanently deleted.

Normally, yes, however files or folders containing personal data should only be shared with York St John users i.e. users with @yorksj.ac.uk email address.

Sharing, along with all other use of OneDrive for Business is governed by the University's Acceptable Use for University ICT Systems, Data Protection and Research Data Management policies.

The storage of research data should be considered within the framework of the University's Research Data Management Policy and the requirements of any funders of the research. 

Where there is a requirement by a research funder for research data to be physically stored within the University, OneDrive for Business (or any other cloud storage) will not meet that requirement.

It is strongly recommended that any research data held on OneDrive for Business is a copy of data held securely elsewhere.

It is technically possible to do this but University files containing personal, sensitive, or confidential data should not be synced to personal devices.

Each OneDrive for Business account has an overall limit of 1TB of storage space.

There is a maximum file size of 15Gb.

Synchronisation of files is limited to an overall limit of 20,000 items.

Your OneDrive for Business account, and any files stored there, is deleted when you leave the University. Your access to the free Office 2016 applications will also stop.