What if I am on leave for 90+ days (I.e., academic leave, sabbatical, or maternity/parental leave). Remember to use your email address to sign into Michigan Medicine’s M365.

To validate your data is synced, sign in to and go to the OneDrive app on the web to view your files. Learn more about OneDrive backup for PCs in the Help Center. Another good indicator is the OneDrive icon in your taskbar-it should be blue with a green check mark to indicate connection to the cloud. How do I validate my data is syncing correctly?įirst, ensure you are signed into OneDrive by opening the OneDrive app on your PC. You are not at risk of data loss if your data is saved to a cloud service, like OneDrive, Dropbox, AWS, or the H, R, S, or T drives. Will this update impact me if my data is saved to the cloud or network attached storage drives? If you have important data in the Music, Video, or other folders, you should take action to back up this data manually. Any other folders, including the ‘Music’ and ‘Video’ folders, or additional folders you create, are not backed up. These folders include the ‘Documents’, ‘Desktop’ and ‘Pictures’ folders. Secure storage options that are easy to access from any device include Michigan Medicine OneDrive and SharePoint, U-M Dropbox, or the H, R, S, or T drives (requires a remote desktop or VPN connection).Īdditionally, several folders within your user profile are now automatically synced to Michigan Medicine’s OneDrive to prevent data loss. But it’s important to ensure you’re not storing any data you need to keep solely on one computer, without a backup. If you log into a computer at least once every 90 days, the computer will maintain your user profile and any data you save to it.

This update targets only information that is not being regularly used. On a shared machine that sees many different user logins, excess user data can build up fast, and there’s currently no automatic way to purge it. Tell me more about how this update works.Įvery time you log into a Michigan Medicine CoreImage PC, our system creates and stores a folder containing your user settings and any documents you create on that computer’s hard drive. CoreImage PC laptops, Kiosk Mode, CoreMacs, Flex PCs and ARLI devices will NOT be affected. This update is for CoreImage PC Standard Mode workstations and desktops only.

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