| UAlbany Service | Available To | Purpose | Storage Space | Can Share with UAlbany NetID Holders | Can Share with Others Outside UAlbany3 | Creation | Files are Web Accessible from Anywhere | Can be Mapped as a Drive in Windows1 | Can be Mounted as a File System in Mac OS1 | Can be Mounted as a File System in Linux1 | Android App | iPhone/iPad App | Secure FTP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty, Staff, and Students | Individual use & Shared use | 1TB |  | | Automatic | | 2 | 2 | | | |||
| Microsoft Teams | Faculty, Staff, and Students | Shared use | 1TB | | | By user | | | | ||||
| Microsoft 365 Groups | Faculty, Staff, and Students | Shared use | 1TB | | | By user | | | | ||||
| Home Folder (U: Drive) | Faculty and Staff | Individual use | 5GB (with step increases to 10GB and 20GB) | Automatic | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||
| S: Drive | Faculty, Staff, and Students | Individual use | 100MB (with optional increases by request) | Automatic | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | | ||||
| Departmental Folders (V: Drive) | Faculty, Staff, Emeriti, Volunteers, Student Employees | Shared use | Varies by Division | | By request | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| U-wide Folders | Faculty, Staff, Emeriti, Volunteers, Student Employees | Shared use | Varies | | Exceptional cases | 1 | 1 | 1 |
1 Drive mappings are available from within the UAlbany network or from outside the UAlbany network if a VPN connection is made. Note that the drive mapping (as opposed to Web access) allows you to save directly from any app on your workstation directly to the storage space.
2 Requires an app.
3 Defined as anyone that does not have a UAlbany NetID.
4 Requires a third-party app.