O: Drive (CASBox) Department Share Migration

Overview

  • ITS moved all Department and Center files and folders from the O: Drive (on a server called CASBox) to a new CAS share in the V: Drive (on a server called Lincoln).

    • Windows users: Your new CAS share will be mapped automatically for University Windows computers on campus.  It will be your V: Drive instead of your O: or P: Drive. You will need to manually map the V: Drive from off-campus. See File Storage - Mapping Network Drives for details.

    • Mac and Linux users: You will need to manually map/mount the V: Drive (Lincoln) to access your folders.  See File Storage - Mapping Network Drives for details.

  • The only changes were to the share and folder names at the top level of your folders. The contents of all files, other folders, and permissions did not change.

  • Top-level folder names are prefixed with an identifier using a department abbreviation (e.g. AFS- for Africana Studies) or center name (e.g. Mumford-).

  • Teaching and Research drives were not being changed as part of this migration; only Department and Center drives.

What You Will See

BEFORE
Dept. Share on the O: Drive

AFTER
CAS Share on the V: Drive

BEFORE
Dept. Share on the O: Drive

AFTER
CAS Share on the V: Drive

Folder Name Examples:

Folder Name Examples:

\\casbox\Africana\Chair or O:\Chair
\\casbox\Biology\Faculty or O:\Faculty
\\casbox\Philosophy\Office or O:\Office

\\Lincoln\CAS\AFS-Chair or V:\AFS-Chair
\\Lincoln\CAS\BIO-Faculty or V:\BIO-Faculty
\\Lincoln\CAS\PHI-Office or V:\PHI-Office

Migration Schedule

Department/Center

Migration Date

Department/Center

Migration Date

Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies

 

Wed., June 7

 

English

East Asian Studies

Languages, Literatures & Cultures

CAS Dean's Office

 

Thurs., June 8

 

Physics

Psychology

Psychological Services Center

Fri., June 9

Chemistry & CARSS

Tues., June 13

 

Institute for RNA Science & Technology

Mathematics & Statistics

Wed., June 14

 

University in the High School

Africana Studies

 

Thurs., June 15

Economics

Art & Art History

History & Judaic Studies

 

Tues., June 27

Communication & Journalism

Latin American, Caribbean & US Latino Studies

Life Sciences 

Sociology & CSDA

 

Wed., June 28

 

Geography & Planning

Confucius Institute

Anthropology

Music & Theatre

 

Thurs., June 29

 

Performing Arts Center

Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences

CAS Technical Services

Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.)


All O: Drive (CASBox) content is being moved to the V: Drive (on a server called "Lincoln"), one of the file storage solutions ITS provides to the campus community. All CASBox content will be saved to give the College ample time to assure all files and folders are accounted for. Then CASBox will eventually be retired.

Your Research R: Drive is not affected by this change.

Mac users will still need to map the new V: Drive -- same as they needed to map the O: Drive before.

File names and folders under the top-level folders.

These will not be changing as part of this migration.  There will be another project to address other CAS drives.

Folder names on V: Drive (Lincoln) were kept the same from O: Drive (CASBox), other than having the Department or Center's name or abbreviation prefixed to the new top-level folder names.  See a full list of CAS Department Share Folder Name Prefixes.

For example, multiple departments had a folder in their share called "Common".  As there can only be one folder with that name in the new CAS-wide share at the top level, each folder there got its department prefix added to it.  For example, BIO-Common, AFS-Common, CHM-Common, etc. were created.

Contact the ITS Service Desk for help relocating them.